81290730-Support to the implementation of the new topic Food Safety in the context of improving border control and to finalise the establishment of the EAC Regional Pool of Rapidly Deployable Experts

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS IN THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY (EAC) REGION (PANPREP)
Introduction
The EAC Secretariat and the EAC Partner States have declared the fight against infectious diseases a health priority for the region. For this is an important area of interest for the German Government too. The "Support to Pandemic Preparedness in the EAC Region" project (PN 21.2049.1-001.00, Term: 09/2022 - 08/2025), which has been commissioned to GIZ by the?German?Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) aims at assisting the EAC Secretariat to improve the regional preparedness and response capacity. It contributes to putting the East African Community regional contingency plan into practice and to implementing the regional risk and crisis communication strategy. The project also advises the Secretariat on the sustainable integration of "One Health". This approach involves professional disciplines and sectors of society that play an important role in preventing and responding to outbreaks of infectious diseases and in mitigating its impact.
Context
Infectious diseases are still one of the leading causes of death in the East African Community and pose a major challenge to weak health systems. Around two thirds of all infectious diseases and 75% of all novel diseases are zoonoses. They are transmitted between animals and humans directly or via vectors. High levels of mobility and migration, increasing transnational trade, climate change and ever closer interaction between humans and animals foster the spread of infectious diseases in the region. Pathogenic contamination of food of animal origin is an important source of infection: for example, each year, around 100 million people worldwide contract a salmonella infection. Over 150,000 of these infections result in death, more than 30,000 of them in Africa. Food contaminated with pathogens also compromises the food supply and has a significant adverse impact on the region"s economy, since the hygiene standards required for trade are not met. Disease outbreaks have a particularly severe impact on poor people and the rural population - which still makes up around 80 per% of the total population - because of their proximity to wild and farm animals and their limited access to health care as well as to animal health and animal husbandry services. Outbreaks pose an ongoing threat to public health, the economy and can be instrumental in undermining social peace and security in the region. Women are at high risk of infection because they are responsible for caring for family members who fall ill.
The focus of this TOR addresses the ability of the East African Community to mobilize and deploy quickly a defined number of experts in the field of fighting outbreaks of infectious diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential and the capacity and ability of the EAC to support partner states in the ability to detect and prevent the spread of zoonoses from microbially contaminated food of animal origin which is traded across borders within the EAC region.
As the East African Community is still in its early years, many basic aspects of safety of food from animal origin have not been addressed in an integrated and harmonized manner leading to barriers to cross-border trade within the community and a high health risk for the population of the partner states.

Deadline
Die Frist für den Eingang der Angebote war 2023-01-09. Die Ausschreibung wurde veröffentlicht am 2022-11-28.

Wer?

• • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Wie?

• • Dienstleistungen im Bereich Gesundheitsschutz und Sicherheit › Beratung im Bereich Gesundheit und Sicherheit
• • Dienstleistungen des Gesundheits- und Sozialwesens

Wo?

• • Darmstadt › Main-Taunus-Kreis