African Union - InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources Consultant Animal Health Expert Jobs in Kenya

African Union - InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources Consultant Animal Health Expert Jobs in Kenya

The African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) is a specialized technical office of the Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (DREA) of the African Union Commission (AUC).

AU-IBAR is mandated to support and coordinate the sustainable development and utilization of animal resources (livestock, fisheries and wildlife) to enhance nutrition and food security and contribute to the wellbeing and prosperity of the people in the Member State of the AU.

AU-IBAR accomplishes its mandate through supporting and empowering the African Union Member States and the Regional Economic Communities (RECs).

AU-IBAR’s vision is of an Africa in which animal resources contribute significantly to the reduction of poverty and hunger.

Founded in 1951 to study the epidemiological situation and fight rinderpest in Africa, AU-IBAR’s mandate covers all aspects of animal resources, including livestock, fisheries and wildlife, across the entire African continent, but fills a unique and strategic niche by working at continental and regional levels, with the RECs being key partners.

AU-IBAR led a cross-section of stakeholders in the livestock sector in Africa to formulate the Livestock Development Strategy for Africa (LiDeSA), a 20 year framework for the collective and coordinated development of the livestock on the continent.

The strategy was approved by the AU Heads of States and Governments of the AU in January 2015. AU-IBAR also developed a pan-African Strategy for the Control and Eradication of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) and Other Priority Diseases of Small Ruminants that is aligned to the PPR Global Control and Eradication Strategy jointly developed and launched in April 2015 by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

Since then, AU-IBAR, FAO and OIE have collectively provided technical and financial support to 39 Member States of the African Union and four RECs to develop and validate national strategies and Action Plans for the control and eradication of PPR.

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