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Good Emergency Management Practice (GEMP) in animal health
04/08/2021
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GEMP is a methodology for organizing and improving the capacity of veterinary services and members of epidemiological surveillance networks to prepare for animal health emergency responses. This course aims to support the strategic objective of replacing or complementing face-to-face training. The Good Emergency Management Practice (GEMP) methodology can be disseminated through face-to-face training courses and workshops, trainer training and online training in line with circumstances and needs.
FAO has therefore decided to develop this online version of the training programme on good emergency management practices.
Through this course, we aim to equip countries to develop their expertise and build their capacity to prepare for and respond to an animal health emergency. An animal health emergency in this context means an epizootic disease outbreak of natural or intentional origin or a critical situation resulting from a human-made crisis or natural disaster.
Course overview
Name: Good emergency management practices (GEMP) in animal health
Code: GEMPEN202111
Type: Self-learning course
Language: English
Duration: 30 hours
Start of the course: 4 November 2021.
Target participants:
Mainly veterinarians and trained specialists, animal health services and agencies, inspection agencies (e.g. customs officials), all stakeholders involved in animal health emergency preparedness and response).
Overall objective:
Equip specialized national agencies to better prepare and plan their response to animal health emergencies.
Specific objectives:
- Present an overview of the evolution of an epidemiological event, the concept of GEMP and its five phases.
- Introduce the peacetime phase of emergency management.
- Introduce the alert phase of emergency management and the corresponding measures.
- Introduce the emergency phase of emergency management.
- Introduce the reconstruction phase of emergency management.
Contents:
- Unit 1: Introduction to GEMP: General principles, emergency phases and actions
- Unit 2: Peacetime phase
- Unit 3: Alert phase
- Unit 4: Emergency phase
- Unit 5: Reconstruction phase
Better to which it belongs: BN3: Safe food for everyone, BP3 One Health, BL3 Agriculture and food emergencies
Responsible officer: Andrés González
Content Manager: Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health EMC-AH - Jéssica Kayamori Lopes, Etienne Bonbon, Frederic Poudevigne