Enhancing Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Developing Countries through Compensation : Issues and Good Practice
The report on enhancing control of highly pathogenic avian influenza in developing countries through compensation seeks to provide guidelines on good practice for payment of compensation as part of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) stamping-...
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Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2016
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/7332420/enhancing-control-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-developing-countries-through-compensation-issues-good-practice http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23986 |
Summary: | The report on enhancing control of
highly pathogenic avian influenza in developing countries
through compensation seeks to provide guidelines on good
practice for payment of compensation as part of highly
pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) stamping-out strategies.
This is especially relevant since the most widely practiced
control methods for poultry involve culling birds that are
infected or in regions immediately around infected animals.
The most common practice to ensure the cooperation of owners
of birds is to compensate them for the culling of their
animals to achieve this public goal. It is meant for
national and international managers and project staff
involved in containing HPAI. The report is based on review
of the well-established literature of compensation practices
in the developed world, staff interviews, experience, and
newly emerging gray literature (project documents, mission
reports, and so forth) on compensation in the developing
world, and specific field visits to Egypt, Indonesia, and
Vietnam. Compensation is likely to remain necessary for many
years to come to promote the early eradication of outbreaks
and to avoid the spread of transmissible animal diseases. As
such, compensation will: (1) become part of modified
stamping-out strategies, with probably a lower priority to
culling; (2) have to become more dependent on the countries
proven political will to improve the key institutions for
animal health, in particular for early alerts and
independent disease reporting; (3) be funded from a mixture
of national and international public funds; and (4) be
funded for the large commercial sectors through private initiatives. |
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