GIEFA: Inter-American Group for the Eradication of Foot-and- Mouth Disease Presentation for the 18th OIE America’s Conference Florianopolis, Brazil Nov 30th, 2006 Sebastião Costa Guedes GIEFA Chairman GIEFA: Inter-American Group for the Eradication of Foot-and- Mouth Disease Presentation for the 18th OIE America’s Conference Florianopolis, Brazil Nov 30th, 2006 Sebastião Costa Guedes GIEFA Chairman

 Hemispheric Conference for the Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Houston, TX., March 2004 with sponsorship of the PAHO and USDA.  FAO,IDB,IICA,OIE,OIRSA,WB,WHO,WTO participants.  “Houston Declaration”.  GIEFA Group (12 members/6 COHEFA’s regions +4 members Par, Bol, Equa and Venez. from public and private sectors).  Plan of Action for 5 years:

Plan GIEFA  US$ for five year project, it means US$ /year (original budget);  These resources should be complementary to nationals FMD eradication projects;  Resources come from donors or sponsors as well from solicited loans;  Donors or sponsors can choice theirs partners to receive and to manage the funds;  Possible resources public or private from FMD free areas(PL 480 USA).

Plan GIEFA  GIEFA will be responsible to analyze the regional plans, the schedule of activities and the chronogram of investments to give his approval to the donors.  The follow-up of the investments and tasks can be made by GIEFA too, if desirable by the donors.

Objective and Final Goal Of PHEFA.  Eradication of the FMD, untill the year 2010;  Preventing the disease from entering free areas in the Continent;  Strenghtening the zoosanitary infraestructure of the countries in the region;  Integration Public and Private.

GIEFA ACTIONS PLAN  Harmonize control/eradication actions, by: –Strengthening local level structures; –Integrating livestock owners, industry and public sector; –Creating Joint multinational programs on risk border areas –Strengthening of regional institutions; –Laboratory Improvement – High security lab at PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO; –Prevention and Epidemiological Surveillance.

GIEFA’s Priority Zones Venezuela Ecuador River Amazonas banks +unknown risk zones northern Brasil Border Brasil- Bolivia Chaco:ARG-BOL- PAR Border Brasil-Paraguai

THE BEST MOMENT FOR THE ERADICATION OF FMD IS NOW !  The outbreaks had drastic reduction;  Problem persists in very delimited critical areas;  There is strong motivation for the private sector to cooperate due the great losses with the last outbreaks.

FMD EVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH AMERICA ( ) yearoutbreaks

Colombia: Ecuador: Peru: Bolívia: Venezuela: Guyanas: Free Brasil: Paraguay: Uruguay: Chile:Free Argentina: * Untill October 2006 FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE OUTBREAKS in SOUTH AMERICA *

FMD OUTBREAKS SOUTH AMERICA, FMD OUTBREAKS SOUTH AMERICA, FMD OUTBREAKS, PER ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT 2006

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDS FMD Programs South America, (US$)

FMD Regionalization, South America, March, 2006 After May 06,OIE gave aproval for south of Pará Free without vaccination Free with vaccination No libre Status temporally suspended* *Brazil: PR,SP,MG,GO,BA, RJ,ES,SE,MS,MT,TO,DF Argentina: North of Paralel 42

GIEFA : Last Actions 2006  March- meeting in S.Paulo with meat exporters and cattlemen’s leadership of Mercosul.  Proposal- US$ 5 /Ton exported bovine meat to support the 5years plan(US$ 48,323 tsd).

Reactions to the Proposal  Argentina and Brazil in principle were in favour, but they asked for more details about the plans for each region.  Argentina had legal restrictions to export at that moment. Now the situation is better, but not normal.

GIEFA: NEW BUDGET TOTAL FOR THE 5 YEARS OF THE PLAN RegionBudget (thousands) Chaco – Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay (International funds only for Bolivia and Paraguay) US$ 2,992 Amazon River– Brazil (only Brazilians funds) US$ 3,953 Brazil/Bolivia Border area (International funds only for Bolivia) US$ 7,534 Brazil/ Paraguay Border area (International funds only for Paraguay) US$ 10,380 Ecuador (International funds)US$ 9,661 Venezuela – not budgeted so far... (only Venezuelan funds) Total US$ 34,520

GIEFA: FOLLOWING ACTIONS  The new budget will be discussed with the private sector of the region. (International resources will be received only to assist the regions or countries in need of our continent: Bolivia, Equador and Paraguay).  Venezuela will be visited and invited to integrate the plan.

GIEFA: SOME CONCLUSIONS AFTER MEETINGS WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR.  They prefer to have freedom to choice theirs partners for the donation or sponsorship;  They are not in accordance with the management of the resources only by the governments or international institutions;  They agree that the institutions should be payed by theirs services but with a previous negociation.

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