Q3. What is the role of WHO and OIE?

Q7. I am a country representative and wish to plan an NBW

WHO and OIE experts act as workshop facilitators. For the workshop tobe a success, it is critical that the organising Ministries take ownershipof it.
As such, the role of WHO and OIE facilitators is to present and explain
the methodology in order to create a conducive environment for theidentification of gaps, needs and corrective measures. It is not a training,
and it is not WHO or OIE’s role to bring solutions. The solutions are homegrown, identified and fine-tuned by participants throughout the differentexercises.
WHO and OIE handle all the logistical aspects of the workshop preparation(room rental, equipment, material, facilitators, meals, etc.).

Implementation of an IHR-PVS NBW is a voluntary process. If you areinterested in running a workshop in your country, please contact either
the regional OIE representation or your WHO country office, to submit arequest.
It is better if the country has undergone a PVS Evaluation or PVS Followup in the recent years. The timing of an NBW is also ideal when it is
implemented after a Joint External Evaluation (JEE) has been conducted
and before a National Action Plan is developed. However, the flexibility ofthe tool ensures that it can be successful even in the absence of any JEE.

in my country, what should I do?

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Q4. Who should participate?

• 30 representatives for human health (1/3 national, 1/3 regional,1/3 local)

Q8. How can I get more information?
LinkDescription• 10 representatives from other sectors(wildlife, environment, police, media, etc.).

www.bit.ly/NBWVideo

5-minute introduction to NBWs

www.bit.ly/NBWMethod

4-minute video on the method of the 7 sessions

Because of the level of interactivity of the workshop it is important toselect dynamic participants who actively contribute to the discussions
and exercises. Due to the way the sessions are interconnected, it isimportant that all participants commit to the three days of the workshop.

www.bit.ly/NBWTanzania

3-minute video of the NBW organized in Tanzania

www.bit.ly/NBWManual

Facilitator’s Manual (PDF)

www.bit.ly/NBWParticipantParticipant Handbook (PDF)

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Q5. Who should be invited as observers?

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It is up to the organising Ministries to decide who they wish to invite asobservers. It is highly recommended to invite any organisation, institution,donor, NGO, academia or other partner involved in national activities
related to human or animal health and who could either contribute to
the development of the roadmap, or who could possibly assist, either
technically or financially, in the follow-ups and in the implementation ofthe activities that will be defined in the roadmap.

Q6. I am a development agency and wish to support NBWs,
what should I do?

The success of the methodology has triggered a lot of interest frommany countries. The list of country candidates for NBWs is growing fastand funding opportunities become the limiting factor. If your agency
is interested in supporting the implementation of a NBW in a specificcountry, please contact the focal points in WHO and OIE (see Q8).

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nalContact pointsWHO HQ

Dr Stephane de la ROCQUE (delarocques@who.int)

OIE HQDr François CAYA (f.caya@oie.int)

Design: crayonbleu.com - France• 30 representatives for animal health (1/3 national, 1/3 regional,1/3 local)

A three-day interactive event to bring human healthand animal health actors to work togetherof participants would recommend this workshop to othercountries (feedback forms 2017)

A strict minimum of 50 participants is needed, although 60 or more isrecommended. An ideal distribution of participants would be:

Average numberof national participants
per workshop (2017)

FACT SHEETQ1. What is an IHR-PVS National Bridging Workshop (NBW)?
The IHR-PVS NBW is a three-day workshop which brings together 60 to
90 stakeholders from the animal health and the human health servicesof the country to improve their collaboration at the human-animalinterface. Representatives of other relevant sectors (environment,wildlife, media, police etc.) often participate.

KEY OUTPUTS OF THE NBW
A diagnosis of current strengths and weaknesses in thecollaboration between animal and human health services
for 16 technical areas that are key for the prevention,detection and response to health events at the humananimal interface (zoonotic diseases, food safety andAMR).

A 5-minute video explaining the concept of these NBWs can beviewed at the following link: www.bit.ly/NBWVideo.

Q2. What is the approach used during this workshop?

Discussion on the way forward
and on the implementationof the joint roadmap.

SESSION7

A harmonized, detailed and realistic joint roadmap ofactivities that the country will implement to improve thecollaboration between the two sectors.

The workshop is very interactive with the whole process being built aroundgroup exercises and discussions.
The workshop is divided into seven sessions and follows a step-by-step
approach where the results of each session feed into the next session:

JOINT TECHNICAL AREAS ADDRESSED IN A NBWSESSION1

Setting the scene(One Health concept,examples of successfulinteractions).

• Coordination at high Level• Field investigation• Coordination at local Level• Response operations• Coordination at technical Level• Risk assessment• Legislation / Regulation• Joint surveillance• Finance• Laboratory• Emergency funding• Education and training• Communication with media• Human resources• Communication with stakeholders• Logistics

A world café exercise anda prioritization vote areconducted to finalize
the joint roadmap.

SESSIONNBW Morocco

6

NBW Indonesia

SESSION
Participants are divided
into working groups
and each group is givena different simulation
scenario. The objective
is to identify strengths
and weaknesses in thecurrent collaboration for
16 key technical areas.

2The tools (WHO’s IHR
MEF and OIE’s PVSPathway) are presented
and the strengths andweaknesses identified
in session 2 aremapped on theIHR-PVS matrix.

SESSIONNBW Tanzania

3

NBW Bhutan

Using results from session 3, fivetechnical working groups are made.
Participants use the reports of theassessments already conducted byboth sectors to extract the information
relevant for their technical area.

NBW Uganda

5

Each group identifies
key joint objectives andactivities to strengthen
the collaboration between
the two sectors.

SESSION

4NBW SenegalSESSIONNBW Pakistan