Description
AHEAD is a convening, facilitative mechanism, working to allow different and
often competing sectors to come to the same table and find collaborative ways
forward to address challenges at the interface of wildlife health, livestock
health, and human health and livelihoods. AHEAD convenes stakeholders, helps
delineate conceptual frameworks to underpin planning, management and
research, and provides technical support and resources for projects stakeholders
identify as priorities. AHEAD primarily focuses its efforts on competition over
grazing and water resources, disease mitigation, zoonoses, local and global food
security, and other potential sources of conflict related to land-use decisionmaking
in the face of resource limitations.
Purpose
AHEAD focuses on several themes of critical importance to the future of animal
agriculture, human health, and wildlife health to holistically address the
landscape-level nexus represented by the triangle of wildlife health, domestic
animal health, and human health and livelihoods as underpinned by
environmental stewardship.
Scope Regional – Southern and East Africa
Primary Funders
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), USAID, The Rockefeller
Foundation
Participants & Key Collaborators
There are more than 60 international collaborators including regional
governmental organizations and ministries, transfrontier conservation areas
(TFCAs), national parks, university collaborators, the African Union-
Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), the Southern African
Development Community (SADC), UN Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), etc
.
Definition of One Health
See the 2004 Manhattan Principles on “One World, One Health” in appendices.
Monitoring & Evaluation Strategy
AHEAD initiatives develop annual targets for progress on their individual
projects. Progress is documented with written reports which are available on
the AHEAD website. There is an ongoing effort to develop indicators that
more closely track the policy dimensions that characterize much of AHEAD’s
work.
Sources of Information
AHEAD Website: http://www.wcs-ahead.org/
Contact Steve Osofsky, DVM
WCS AHEAD Coordinator and Director, Wildlife Health Policy
