World Bank Horticulture and Livestock Project – Training portion of veterinary component

The World Bank's Horticulture and Livestock Project (HLP) is a huge project, aimed at the improvement of agriculture and livestock in Afghanistan. The veterinary part of the project is being implemented by the Afghan Veterinary Association (AVA).

The veterinary component of the HLP project has two major aims:

1. a coordinated and sustainable private veterinary sector

2. privatization of governmental clinics

The background of the first target is that the current private Veterinary Field Units are established by various NGOs with each having their own standard procedures. Through the introduction of a uniform set of methods and rules the Afghan government aims at streamlining these different procedures. In addition, the Government wants to stimulate the sustainability of the VFUs to ensure that they can continue their activities in future without the help of international support.

As second target the Afghan government aims at the privatisation of veterinary daily care, as is also common practice in other countries. That is why practising government veterinarians are being retrained to move to private sector clinics. As a result, the government will be able to give their full attention to the public veterinary tasks, like the introduction and implementation of veterinary legislation, animal disease control and veterinary public health.

DCA-VET is operating as subcontractor of AVA for the training component of the project, and will in this respect take care of:

•  refresher training of paravets and veterinarians

•  training of VFU (para)veterinarians to broaden their services

•  practical training of government veterinarians transferring to

    privatized clinics

•  training of VFU staff to engage in government campaigns on

    animal disease control

back

Latest revision 21 December 2009