Dear Paul and colleagues around the world
It was a wonderful round of exchanges and I personally congratulate the moderator for the substance posted on this forum. A lot of good stuff and we should all command who had this initiative
As the session is closing, I would like to make few remarks as a contribution from Somalia:
On technical matters, I think we have all what it takes to control PPR and the debate was pretty clear on it. We can always improve but nothing justify us waiting.
Resource mobilization strategy is where I did not feel we discriminated well on reasons for anyone to fund PPR progressive control and eventually eradication.

1.       PPR is not Rinderpest and the fear for its introduction and spread into developed countries is extremely low. As a result of this, a massive funding from developed countries is unlikely to target PPR control for the sake of it being an eradicable livestock disease. In many countries, it also seems unlikely that national budgets allocate meaningful budget for this purpose.

2.       PPR affects assets of poor people mostly in developing countries and its control may have asset protection impact. I wish this debate and action started 10 years ago. The effort would have probably been less expensive.

3.       Post-outbreak localized interventions often come late and their impacts are yet to be understood while mass vaccinations prove to have the capacity of limiting or stopping outbreaks. It may be difficult to link the cost of a mass intervention to a well documented socio-economical analysis of a non intervention scenario but it is clear that poor small holders and women as it is the case for small ruminants will carry the heavy burden of losses, should we decide doing nothing.
From these few remarks, I would suggest we do not envisage the funding pattern Rinderpest benefitted but anchor PPR control funding strategy on a small ruminants production programme as a mean for poverty reduction. It must only contribute to resilience building and as such should be funded within a production or asset protection package. The PPR control will be an activity in the package and its eradication an outcome of a broader programme.
I hope the modest contribution helps on ways forward.
Thank you all
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Dr Cyprien F. BIAOU
Coordinator, Livestock Sector

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Subject: Coming to the end of the PPR-GREN e-conference

Dear Colleagues,

Tomorrow will be the last day of this e-conference on establishing the PPR-Global Research and Experience Network (GREN). If you have any final comments that you would like to add to session 5 please do so, and for the participants who joined within this last week we may accept contributions on the subjects covered in the other four sessions.  It is also a last chance for AOB, "any other business".

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