Animal Health

$12.8K USD

Funder	Department of Agriculture
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Department of Agriculture
Country	Eastern Africa Region
Start Date	Oct 14, 2011
End Date	Apr 10, 2015
Duration	1,274 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`250873-85`

Grant Description

Under the overall guidance and program responsibility of the Head, FAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD)/FAO an APHIS laboratory quality management expert was invited to provide a five day refresher training for laboratory personnel in Eastern Africa on the theoretical aspects and practical implementation of quality assurance management in veterinary diagnostic laboratories for laboratory accreditation.

Training included: writing and practice of SOPs by way of document creation; establishing and monitoring of controls, handling of test failures and implementation of corrective actions.

There were ten participants from the following countries: Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan North, Sudan South, Somalia, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda. From 06/27/2011 to 07/02/2011.