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Dr Honhold writes with similar advice to Dr Kimani about the wider involvement of socio-economics in PPR control. It can provide much more than simply $£ "Justification" for eradication. Moderator.
Dear All
I think what Paul has suggested looks pretty good. I'd like to add a suggestion but am not sure where it will come. Socio-economic impact is one thing but I think we need also to focus on understanding the socio-economics of why and how people keep small ruminants. I see this as somewhat different because we need to be sure that the campaigns and control measures we develop fit in with the lives of the owners and keepers of small ruminants in each country/region/culture, indeed are developed with them. Perhaps this is part of implementation but it is one that has often been ignored with top down solutions devised by technical specialists having to be forced on people or amended after they have caused the overall purpose to lose credibility. Where PPR is having an immediate socio-economic impact and people haven't come to live with it, implementation may be easy, but outside those areas it may not be so easy unless we understand thoroughly what the
background socio-economic and cultural situation is. In this respect, PPR may have important similarities with HPAI control as well as with RP control. We also need to bear in mind that in many areas, small ruminants are owned and cared for by women so we must be sure to involve them in the process.
This may seem picky but my experience is that this is an aspect that tends to end up being addressed post hoc as a matter of necessity to correct failures that could have been avoided by thinking about it up front. I think we need to have social scientists and gender specialists involved all along the way. Hopefully there are already some involved in this discussion.
Nick Honhold
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