Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) Phase II

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The development objective of the Second Phase of Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) Project for Africa is to strengthen national and regional cross‐sectoral capacity for collaborative disease surveillance and epidemic preparedness in West Africa, thereby addressing systemic weaknesses within the animal and human health systems that hinder effective disease surveillance and response; and (ii) in the event of an Eligible Emergency, to provide immediate and effective response to said Eligible Emergency. This project will comprises five components. 1) surveillance and information systems will involve the enhancement of national surveillance and reporting systems and their interoperability at the different tiers of the health systems; 2) strengthening of laboratory capacity will involve the identification and/or establishment of networks of efficient, high quality, accessible public health, and veterinary laboratories (public or private) for the diagnosis of infectious human and animal diseases, and the establishment of a regional networking platform to improve collaboration for laboratory investigation; 3) preparedness and emergency response will support national or regional efforts to enhance infectious disease outbreak preparedness and response capacity by improving local (community), national and regional capacities to prepare for impending epidemics in humans and animals, and to respond effectively to disease outbreak threats including the resulting mortality risks posed by infectious diseases; 4) human resource management for effective disease surveillance and epidemic preparedness is cross cutting of the previous three and aims to strengthen government capacity to plan, implement and monitor human resource interventions by establishing long-term capacity for improved management of human resources; 5) institutional capacity building, project management, coordination and advocacy focuses on all aspects related to project management. It includes fiduciary aspect (financial management and procurement), monitoring and evaluation (M&E), knowledge generation and management, communication, and management (capacity building, monitoring and evaluation) of social and environmental safeguard mitigation measures.