Project 1: Vulnerability and resilience to malaria and schistosomiasis at the northern and southern fringes of the Sahel band in the context of climate change: From an EcoHealth research project to operationalizing the One Health approach in West Africa (Côte d’Ivoire and Mauritania)
Principal Investigator: Dr Brama KONE, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire (CSRS), Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Summary of achievements:
Main objective of this project: To operationalize a One Health approach through the assessment of capacity-building needs among stakeholders, activities and outcomes of knowledge and learning process and risk management strategies.
Specific objective 1. To analyse the actors (governance, organizations) and resources, capacity-building activities and their outcomes, employing socio-ecological systems analytical methods and stakeholder analysis.
This was done through literature review based on previous knowledge and data generated from the TDR-IDRC Research Initiative (VBDs and Climate Change) and other relevant publications. The analysis was done considering the capacity building component of the One Health conceptual framework. A draft report is currently being prepared for publication and dissemination to stakeholders.
Specific objective 2. To assess the effectiveness of the principles of an EcoHealth approach in the implementation of One Health intervention science and risk management scorecard components.
Drawing on the previous TDR IDRC Research Initiative project results and experience with malaria and schistosomiasis interventions in Cote d’ Ivoire and Mauritania, and the role of public versus private health facilities, the current project investigated how the research output could guide interventions with better and improved health systems disease risk management capacity using One Health approach and taking as example the Covid-19 pandemic management.
Following the achievement of specific objectives 1 and 2 above, a workshop was organized and conducted from 26 to 28 August 2021 (see Figures 10 and 11) to discuss the results, plan for further data collection and to draft interview questionnaires for additional studies. The main stakeholders for data collection were identified following the One Health scorecard framework. For the capacity building component the Institutional actors in Abidjan (Governance) included the National Malaria Control Programme (Dr Assiénin), National Programme for the Control of Neglected Diseases with Preventive Chemotherapy (PNLMTN-CP; Dr Anoma), Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development/ Climate Change Programme (Kadjo Ahossan/ N'Goran Edouard), Directorate of Public Hygiene and Environmental Health/ Ministry of Health (Dr Doh Gagne), SODEXAM in Korhogo (Dr Djè Bernard), Departmental Health Directorate (nurses involved in the collection of health data in Korhogo; and nurses involved in the group interviews, and ARK (Mr. Soro Gaoussou, Director). The Research actors (researchers) are composed of the following: Parasitology: Prof Silué (Gbalégba); Entomology: Dr Tia/ Dr Chouaibou (Gbalégba); Malacology: Prof Yapi/ Prof Tian Bi (Gbalégba); Epidemiology /Environment: Prof Koné Brama (N'Krumah / Soro Dramane); Sociology: Dr Fokou/ Dr Doumbia/ Prof Traoré/ Dr Esso (Jeanne d'Arc/Honorate). For the Community actors, the following were identified: President of a women's association, Korhogo community (President of the Residential district 2; Chief Koko; Chief Natio; Chief Kolokakaha), Social Service of the Town Hall, Interpreter. For the knowledge and learning component of the One Health scorecard, the following areas and specific contributors were named: Training courses with researchers’ contribution [ Parasitology: Prof Silué (Gbalégba) - Entomology: Dr Tia/ Dr Chouaibou (Gbalégba) - Malacology: Prof Yapi/ Prof Tian Bi (Gbalégba) - Epidemiology /Environment: Prof Koné Brama (N'Krumah / Soro Dramane) - Sociology: Dr Fokou/ Dr Doumbia/ Prof Traoré/ Dr Esso (Jeanne d'Arc/Honorate)]. For the Intervention component, contributions from the following will be tapped: private Hospitals (capacity building), local radio/broadcast media and community leaders (capacity building), women’s associations of Korhogo, specific communities and school groups (teachers).
With these above-named actors/contributors, the plan is to conduct further individual and group interviews to document past and future activities related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the One Health scorecard conceptual framework.
Specific objective 3. Produce a documentary video on lessons learned from the MTV-CC project for operationalizing the One Health approach
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