Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement Project (REDISSE) Phase IV

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The objectives of the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) Project in Central Africa, Phase IV are to (i) to strengthen national and regional cross-sectoral capacity for collaborative disease surveillance and epidemic preparedness in the Participating Countries; and (ii) in the event of an Eligible Crisis or Emergency, to provide immediate and effective response to said Eligible Crisis or Emergency. The project has four components: (1) Strengthening surveillance and laboratory capacity to rapidly detect outbreaks. This component will focus on the regional, national and sub-national levels to establish and scale-up systems that are both sensitive and of high quality and can be sustainably implemented and managed by national and regional authorities. These systems are vital both to ensuring these countries can adapt to climate change and do so in a way which minimizes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This component will enhance the national surveillance and reporting systems and their interoperability at the different tiers of the human and animal health systems.; (2) Strengthening emergency planning and management capacity to rapidly respond to outbreaks. This component will focus on the technical, personnel, legal, infrastructure and community elements that are required to build an effective incident management system and support activation of the system to respond to outbreaks. (3) Public health workforce development. This component will focus on activities that support recruitment, training and retention of qualified staff for routine and emergency public health functions including, where possible, coordination with the private sector health workforce. The increased capacity will be critical to having an agile system which can respond to threats, including those resulting from climate change. (4) Institutional capacity building, project management, coordination and advocacy. This component focuses on all aspects of project management, including financial management (FM) and procurement; M&E; knowledge generation and management; communication; and capacity building, M&E of social and environmental safeguard mitigation measures. It also provides for critical cross-cutting institutional support, meeting capacity-building and training needs identified in the five countries and specific technical capacity-building activities undertaken within the three technical components.