G/SPS/GEN/1962  
 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 
TECHNICAL ASS ISTANCE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES  
COMMUNICATION FROM CANADA  
The follow ing communication, received on 13 October 2021, 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 20 20.1 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 20 20. 
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 $17 million between January and December 20 20. 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 to more than 13 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 thre e 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 head ings of food safety, animal health and plant protection, in the Annex of 
G/SPS/GEN/206.  
5.  In all, 26 projects are listed for the period January to December 20 20. 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 2019 (G/SPS/GEN/1834), 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/119 6), 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/1962  
 
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  TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY CANADA  
JANUARY - DECEMBER 20 20 
Secto
r Description of Particular 
Programme  Form of 
Assistance  Provided 
to Contact  
Animal 
Health  CRA with M.C.I. santé 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 . 
(March – December 2020)  Training  Morocco  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Project no. Bio -2018-0025 
Capacity building for national 
and regional foot -and-mouth  
disease control strategy . 
(March – December 2020)  Capacity 
Building  Nigeria  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Project no. Bio -2018-0026 
Anthrax biological threat 
reduction in Ghana . 
(March – December 2020)  Training  Ghana  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Project no. Bio -2018-0029 
Building sustainable diagnostic 
capability for eradication of 
African swine fever in Ghana . 
(March – December 2020)  Training  Ghana  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Project no. Bio -2018-0030 
Enhancing the biosafety, 
biosecurity and diagnostic 
capability of Accra veterinary 
laboratory with emphasis on 
highly pathogenic avian 
influenza . 
(March – December 2020)  Training  Ghana  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Food 
Safety  CFIA (NCAD) -Accra veterinary 
laboratory of the veterinary 
services directorate of Ghana 
OIE twinning project - to 
enhance diagnostic capacity for 
avian influenza in Ghana . 
(March – December 2020)  Training  Ghana  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Animal  
Health  Transfer of bovine epithelial 
tissue for use in inter -laboratory 
comparison (ILC) and proficiency 
testing (PT) . 
(March – December 2020)  Training  Botswana  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Food 
Safety  Export Inspection Council & 
Agriculture and Processed Food 
Products Export Development 
Authority (both under Ministry of 
Commerce) co -hosted the CFIA's 
workshop on Chemical 
Contaminants in Food . 
(December 2020)  Information  India Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Food 
Safety  Virtual workshop on Chemical 
Contaminants in Food Imported 
to Canada broadcasted to 
Bangkok, Thailand . 
(January 2020)  Information  Thailand  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Food 
Safety  Virtual workshop on Chemical 
Contaminants in Food Imported 
to Canada broadcasted to 
Guatemala City, Guatemala . 
(March 2020)  Information  Guatemala  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  G/SPS/GEN/1962  
 
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  Secto
r Description of Particular 
Programme  Form of 
Assistance  Provided 
to Contact  
Food 
Safety  Virtual workshop on Chemical 
Contaminants in Food Imported 
to Canada broadcasted to 
Mexico  City, Mexico . 
(March 2020)  Information  Mexico  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Animal 
Health 
and 
Food 
Safety  Development and validation of 
lateral flow strip tests for 
foot-and-mouth disease (SAT1, 
2, and 3) diagnosis . 
(March – December 2019)  Capacity 
Building  Botswana  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Plant 
Health 
and 
Food 
Safety  Analysis of new variants of 
dickeya/pectobacterium and 
development of reliable 
diagnostic methods to prevent 
introduction and furth er spread 
of the pathogens . 
(March – December 2020)  Capacity 
Building  China  Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Plant 
Health  The project aims to improve the 
capacity of the Senegalese 
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural 
Equipment in the development of 
a seed control system as well as 
a risk assessment and risk 
management system for seeds 
and biotechnology products for 
Senegal (CFIA -Program) . 
(January – December 2020)  Capacity 
Building  Senegal Marie -Claude.Tardif@inspection.gc.ca  
Animal 
Health 
and 
Plant 
Health  Support to the Inter -American 
Institute for Cooperation on 
Agriculture for professional 
surveillance training for African 
swine fever and crop 
grouping/minor use workshops.  Capacity 
Building  Americas  Brent.wilson@agr.gc.ca  
Plant 
Health  Support to IPPC projects related 
to the Fourth IPPC Sea Container 
Task Force, e -commerc e, and 
the development of commodity 
specific ISPMs . Funding  Includes 
IPPC 
member 
developing 
countries  Brent.wilson@agr.gc.ca  
Food 
Safety  Support to the Standards and 
Trade Development Facility 
(STDF) for implementation of 
international SPS standards, 
guidelines and 
recommendations.  Capacity 
Building  Developing 
countries  Brent.wilson@agr.gc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Support to OIE for the 
coordination and support of 
Standing Group of Experts on 
African Swine Fever for the 
Americas.  Funding  Americas  Brent.wilson@agr.gc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Project no. 108626 - Training of 
young members of staff on 
temporary appointment at the 
Kenya Agricultural & Livestock 
Research Organization (KALRO) 
in molecular techniques including 
DNA extraction from ticks and 
E. ruminantium q uantitative PCR 
analysis - in KALRO Muguga, 
Kenya . Training  Kenya  ktiessen@idrc.ca  G/SPS/GEN/1962  
 
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  Secto
r Description of Particular 
Programme  Form of 
Assistance  Provided 
to Contact  
Animal 
Health  Project no. 109061  - 
30 enumerators trained in two 
sessions in January 2020 in 
Makueni County, Kenya for the 
baseline survey and on poultry/ 
shoats diseases and vaccines. 
Further, project team attended 
PhotoVax Training of Trainers . 
17 and 26 November, December 
2020 Training  Kenya  ktiessen@idrc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Project no. 109063 : 
1. Women's Empowerment in 
Livestock Index (W ELI) data 
collection training workshop 20 – 
23 July 2020, Makueni County, 
Kenya Project PIs, Researchers, 
GIVE project staff and 11 
Enumerators (M ale=13, 
Female =11) 
2. Nutritional Survey Data 
Collection Training Workshop 23 
– 25 Sep tember  2020, Makueni 
County,  Kenya Project PIs, 
Researchers, GIVE project staff 
and 11 Enumerators (F emale =8, 
Male=11) Training  Kenya  ktiessen@idrc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Project no. 109064 – Project 
team trainings:  
1. WELI and RhoMIS training for 
enumerators of baseline study. 
9-21 November 2020 Bolgatanga  
-29 Enumerators  
-Six members of the CARE team.  
2. Training on the use of 
Cowtribe mobile Apps to profile, 
form groups, acquire farmers, 
deliveries and reporting.  6th 
November 2020;  
- 2 Vet Technicians  
- 5 members of Cowtribe team  
3.Training on cold chain tracking 
tools, monitoring and best 
practices, 11 September, 2020, 
Tamale  
- Cold chain Manager  
- External partner from Nigeria  
- Two members of Cowtribe  
   team Training  Ghana  ktiessen@idrc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Project no. 109047 – Project 
participation at conference: 
Evaluation of the 
immunogenicity and protective 
efficacy of an experimental 
Strep tococcus suis autogenous 
vaccine formulated with six 
different adjuvants at Le Pork 
Show, Quebec, Canada, on 
9 December 2020. Information  Thailand  ktiessen@idrc.ca  G/SPS/GEN/1962  
 
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  Secto
r Description of Particular 
Programme  Form of 
Assistance  Provided 
to Contact  
Animal 
Health  Project no. 109049 – Conference 
presentations  
1. Isolating novel Kenyan 
Salmonella enterica Phages for 
the development of phage 
therapy in Kenyan poultry farms. 
Presented by Angela Makumi at 
the Oxford Bacteriophage 
Conference 2020, 
9-10 September 2020  
2. Bacteriophages a viable 
alternative to antibio tic use in 
poultry farming. Presented by  
Nicholas Svitek at the CGIAR 
Research Program on Livestock 
Virtual Meeting in June 2020  
3. Towards a vaccine against 
ECF & alternatives to antibiotics 
in poultry farms in Kenya. 
Presented by Nicholas Svitek at 
the Online International 
Symposium on Animal Functional 
Genomics & Health, 
19 November 2020  Information  Kenya  ktiessen@idrc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Project no. 109056 – Team 
members trained on minion 
genome sequencing  Training  Vietnam  ktiessen@idrc.ca  
Animal 
Health  Project no. 109055 - Innovative 
Biofloc Farming Technologies for 
Fish and Shrimp (i -FLOCS 2020) 
on 23 -25 November  2020 
(Virtual Aquaculture Workshop) - 
attended by team member 
Mohammad Sarifudin Abdul 
Wahab . Training  Malaysia  ktiessen@idrc.ca  
 
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