Enhancing Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Developing Countries through Compensation

• Main Author: World Bank
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC 2006
• Subjects: AFFECTED FARMERS; AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION; ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL DISEASE CONTROL; ANIMAL DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL HEALTH SERVICE; ANIMAL HEALTH SERVICES; ANIMAL POPULATIONS; ANIMAL PRODUCTION; ANIMAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; ANIMAL PROTEIN; AVIAN FLU; AVIAN INFLUENZA COMMITTEES; AVIAN INFLUENZA CONTROL; AVIAN INFLUENZA PROJECTS; AWARENESS CAMPAIGN; AWARENESS RAISING; BACKYARD PRODUCERS; BEAR; BIOSECURITY; BIRD; BIRD MOVEMENTS; BIRDS; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BREEDS; BROILER; BROILER CHICKENS; BRUCELLOSIS; BSE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHICKENS; CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER; COMMERCIAL FARMING; COMMERCIAL POULTRY; COMMERCIAL POULTRY OPERATIONS; COMMERCIAL PRODUCERS; COMPENSATION STRATEGIES; COMPENSATION TO FARMERS; CONTAGIOUS BOVINE PLEUROPNEUMONIA; CONTAINMENT; CONTINGENCY PLANNING; CONTINGENCY PLANS; CONTROL MEASURES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CULLED; Avian flu
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10986/23986; http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/7332420/enhancing-control-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-developing-countries-through-compensation-issues-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-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.