G/SPS/GEN/1834  
 
14 October 20 20 
(20-7071) Page: 1/4 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 
TECHNICAL ASS ISTANCE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES  
COMMUNICATION FROM CANADA  
The follow ing communication, received on 9 October 2020, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Canada . 
 
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1.  Canada would like to provide an update regarding the provision of technical assistance from 
January to December 201 9.1 Technical assistance has been provided to developin g and least 
developed countries in accordance with Article 9 of the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary 
and Phytosanitary Measures. The assistance was primarily aimed at facilitating the development and 
implementation of sanitary and phytosanitary mea sures based on sound science. The attached table 
reflects Canadian technical assistance to developing and least dev eloped countries in 201 9. 
While  every effort has been made to ensure that information contained in the table presents all 
relevant technical assistance projects, it may not constitute a complete compilation of technical 
assistance delivered given the number of Canadian government departments and agencies and the 
variety of delivery programs involved.  
2.  The monetary value of the technical assistan ce committe d amounted to approximately 
CDN $1.49 million between January and December 201 9. It should be noted that, in many cases, 
the organizations providing the assistance also made additional in -kind contributions to projects.  
3.  Assistance was provided t o more than 20 countries – in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, 
Central Asia and the Asia -Pacific region. Assistance was directed to both individual countries, groups 
of countries, and to international organizations.  
4.  Canada 's assistance addressed th ree of the four broad categories listed in G/SPS/GEN/206: 
information; training; and "soft" infrastructure development (but not "hard" infrastructure 
development). Assistance from Canada covered most of the "typical areas of competence" listed 
under the he adings of food safety, animal health and plant protection, in the Annex of 
G/SPS/GEN/206.  
5.  In all, 27 projects are listed for the period January to December 201 9. Some of the projects listed 
are multi -year projects; however, projects are only reported once and generally in the year in which 
the project is initiated unless subsequent funded project extensions occur.  
 
1 Canada has provided technical assistance updates for 2018 (G/SPS/GEN/1738), 2017 
(G/SPS/GEN/1651), 2016 (G/SPS/GEN/1584), 2015 (G/SPS/GEN/1522), 2014 (G/SPS/GEN/1426), 2013 
(G/SPS/GEN/1342), 2012 (G/SPS/GEN/1318), 2011 (G/SPS/GEN/1196), 2010 (G/SPS/GEN/1149), 2009 
(G/SPS/GEN/1099), 2008 (G/SPS/GEN/1027), 2007 (G/SPS/GEN/1008), 2005 -2006 (G/SPS/GEN/765), 
2000-2004 (G/SPS/GEN/728), and for years prior to 2000 (G/SPS/GEN/143/Rev .1/Add.1 ). G/SPS/GEN/1834  
 
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  TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY CANADA  
JANUARY - DECEMBER 201 9 
Sector  Description of Particular 
Programme  Form of 
Assistance  Provided to  Contact  
Food 
Safety  Food allergen webinar series on 
the enforcement and application 
of the Canadian food allergen 
labelling regulations.  
(11-18 January  2019; 
20-21 February 2019;  
4 March 2019)  Training  Indonesia, 
Philippines, 
Thailand  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Food 
Safety  Visit by National Agency for Drug 
and Food Control on food safety 
management . 
(2 February 2019 ) Training  Indonesia  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health  Training for staff and postdoctoral 
fellows at the International 
Livestock Research Institute 
(ILRI), including on African Swine 
Fever virology work and animal 
model monitoring . 
(February 2019)  Training  Kenya  ktiessen@idrc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Training for staff and postdoctoral 
fellows at the University of 
Nairobi, The Cooperative 
University of Kenya, and the 
Kenya Agricultural & Livestock 
Research Organization (KALRO) in 
preparation for conducting 
baseline assessments of women’s 
empowerment in the livestock 
vaccine value chain . 
(May 2019)  Training Kenya  ktiessen@idrc.ca  
Food 
Safety  Bangladesh Study Tour sponsored 
by the World Bank/International 
Food Policy Research Institute on 
CFIA's mandate, how we operate 
independently but in collaboration 
with Health Canada and 
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada , 
how we ensure food safety within 
Canada's food  system, current 
Safe Food for Canadian 
Regulations , how we engage with 
trading partners as well as within 
international standard setting 
bodies and  how we  provide  
industry oversight.  
(3 July 2019) Training  Bangladesh  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Food 
Safety  A visit to Canadian Food Safety 
Laboratory in Ottawa by an 
Indian Scholar . 
(5 September 2019)  Information  India Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Food 
Safety  Two virtual workshops on 
Undeclared Allergens broadcasted 
from Ottawa to Hanoi and 
HuChiMinh City on separate days.  
(10-17 September 2019 ) Training  Viet Nam Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Food 
Safety  Internship visit from National 
Fisheries and Aquaculture Service 
(SERNAPESCA ) about the 
measure and decrease of the 
impact from the aquaculture and 
fishing activity, management of 
the waste from these activities, 
multi-trophic aquaculture, or even 
some organic aquaculture . 
(3 October 2019 ) Information  Chile Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  G/SPS/GEN/1834  
 
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  Sector  Description of Particular 
Programme  Form of 
Assistance  Provided to  Contact  
Plant 
Health  KAPE (Korea Institute for 
Evaluating animal products 
Quality Evaluation) visited 
Canada on Management method 
for the latest honey related 
inspection method or the recently 
tested fake honey discrimination 
method.  
(15 October 2019)  Training  South Korea  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Food 
Safety  The National Food Safety 
Institution (NFSI) researchers 
visited Canada to study the food 
safety management system and 
outbreak response in the US and 
Canada.  
(28-29 October 2019 ) Training  South Korea  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Food 
Safety  Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock 
of Bangladesh visited Toronto and 
Guelph . 
(11 November 2019 ) Information  Bangladesh  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health  Training for staff at 
Onderstepoort Veterinary 
Research (OVI) and 
Onderstepoort Biological Products 
(OBP) in South Africa . 
(November 2019)  Training  Malawi , 
South Africa  ktiessen@idrc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Training for technicians at 
Clinglobal/Clinvet in Morocco on 
titration for a new vaccine . 
(November 2019)  Training  Kenya, 
Malawi,  
Morocco, 
Tanzania  ktiessen@idrc.ca  
Food 
Safety  Minister of Industry, Trade and 
Commerce of Eswatini visited 
Canada to gain information on 
Canada's Food Safety System and 
African swine Fever Controls in 
Canada . 
(27 November 2019 ) Information  Eswatini  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Food 
Safety  Virtual workshop on Undeclared 
Allergens broadcasted from 
Ottawa to Seoul . 
(11 December 2019 ) Training  South Korea  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Food 
Safety  CFIA's Science Branch and 
Program & Poli cy Branch provided 
expertise to compile materials for 
the virtual workshop  on Chemical 
Contaminants in Imported Food 
to Canada intended to be 
broadcasted to three countries 
identified based on intelligence 
products.  
(1 March – 31 December 2019 ) Information  Guatemala, 
Mexico, 
Thailand, 
and other 
developing 
countries  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health 
and 
Food 
Safety  Development and validation of 
lateral flow strip tests for foot -
and-mouth disease (SAT1, 2, and 
3) diagnosis.  
(1 March – 31 December 2019 ) Capacity 
Building  Botswana  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health, 
Plant 
Health 
& Food 
Safety  CFIA Technical Cooperation 
Team: Group in CFIA/AAFC 
International Affairs Branch 
responsible for TA coordination . 
(1 March – 31 December 2019)  Capacity 
Building  Latin 
America, 
South Asia, 
Asia-Pacific, 
and Eastern  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  G/SPS/GEN/1834  
 
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  Sector  Description of Particular 
Programme  Form of 
Assistance  Provided to  Contact  
Plant 
Health 
& Food 
Safety  Analysis of new variants of 
dickeya/pectobacterium and 
development of reliable diagnostic 
methods to prevent introduction 
and further spread of the 
pathogens . 
(1 March – 31 December 2019 ) Capacity 
Building  China  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health
& Food 
Safety  CFIA (NCAD) - Laboratorio de 
Referencia Regional de Sanidad 
Animal (LARRSA), Guatemala OIE 
twinning project to enhance 
diagnostic capacity for CSF in 
Central and South A merica . 
(18 December 2017 – 31 August 
2020) Capacity 
Building  Guatemala  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health, 
Plant 
Health 
& Food 
Safety  CRA with M.C.I. SANTE ANIMALE: 
efficacy testing of the bivalent 
lumpy skin disease (lsd) -rvf and 
the trivalent rvf -sheep/goat pox 
(sgp) -peste des petits ruminants 
(ppr) vaccine candidates . 
(1 March – 31 December 2019 ) Information  Morocco  Marie -Claud e.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health, 
Plant 
Health 
& Food 
Safety  PROJECT NO. BIO -2018-0025 
capacity building for national and 
regional foot -and-mouth -disease 
control strategy . 
(1 March – 31 December 2019 ) Capacity 
Building  Nigeria  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health, 
Plant 
Health 
& Food 
Safety  PROJECT NO. BIO -2018-0026 
Anthrax biological threat 
reduction . 
(1 March – 31 December 2019 ) Capacity 
Building  Ghana  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health 
& Food 
Safety  PROJECT NO. BIO -2018-0030 
Enhancing the biosafety, 
biosecurity and diagnostic 
capability of Accra veterinary 
laboratory with emphasis on 
highly pathogenic avian influenza . 
(1 March – 31 December 2019 ) Capacity 
Building  Ghana  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health 
& Food 
Safety  CFIA (NCAD) - Accra veterinary 
laboratory of the veterinary 
services director of Ghana OIE 
twinning project to enhance 
diagnostic capacity for avian 
influenza . 
(1 March – 31 December 2019 ) Capacity 
Building  Ghana  Marie -Claude.Tardif@canada.ca  
Animal 
Health  Support to OIE to develop  
recommendations  for member 
states  regarding the achievement 
of "disease free status" for Foot 
and Mouth Disease.  Funding  Includes OIE 
member 
developing 
countries  Brent.Wilson@canada.ca  
Plant 
Health 
& Food 
Safety  Support to the  Codex 
Alimentarius Joint Meetin g on 
Pesticide Residues to build 
capacity by teaching new 
toxicological e xperts . Funding  Includes 
WHO 
member 
developing 
countries  Brent.Wilson@canada.ca  
 
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