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Where There Is No Data: Participatory Approaches To Veterinary Epidemiology In Pastoral
Areas Of The Horn Of Africa·Andy Catley and Jeffrey Mariner·2002·IIED, London·pp 20.
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An excellent issue paper published by the International Institute for
Environment and Development (IIED), London. The increasing incidence of foot and mouth
disease and other veterinary diseases sets the need for having hard data available so that
realistic and affordable disease control strategies can be planned. The paper highlights
various approaches to understanding participatory appraisal (PA) which aims to set at rest
the many fears that veterinarians have about qualitative data being unreliable, invalid
and difficult to incorporate into official disease information systems. The authors
outline how participatory approaches and methods can be used in conducting various animal
health surveys, impact assessment and evaluation studies and to develop disease control
strategies. In the end, the paper also touches upon the problems encountered in using
PA–the lack of sufficiently trained veterinarians. A comprehensively packaged paper
on participatory approaches to veterinary epidemiology. |
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