The 4WL facilitated sharing information, performing joint rapid risk assessment (JRA) of HPAI, and providing recommendations to the HPAI ministerial committee.
In 2013, the 4WL expanded and transformed into the OH Technical Advisory Group (OH-TAG) by facilitating collaborative work and coordination meetings among health practitioners from GOVS-MoALR, MoH, and MoE to address HPAI and other emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases. In this regard, ECTAD supported seven coordination meetings of the OH-TAG from 2013- 2020 involving a total of 588 OH practitioners. Those meetings resulted in facilitating and sustaining the data sharing and the joint conduct of situational assessments, establishing a task group responsible for JRA, and joint outbreak investigation in emergency cases.
Taking the opportunity of hosting COP27 in Egypt, a National One Health Strategic Framework 2022-2026 was developed and presented for endorsement at a higher level. The framework aims to institutionalize the one-health approach to reduce the health risks facing humans, animals, and the environment by maximizing the capacities of the nation’s health systems.