Berhanu, Dagim

Gizaw, Solomon

Imperatore, G.

Revie, Crawford

Wieland, Barbara

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§ Herd health approach is missing from extension packages § Capacity is a limiting factor for introducing the approach§ Smart-phone based tool overcomes limitations in capacitySmart phone-based herd health management toolPOVERTY REDUCTION, LIVELIHOODS & JOBSPartners• University of Strathclyde in the UK • Amhara, Oromia and Somali regional and woreda livestock offices• Regional HEARD components in 3 regions• MoA |  Private service providersOutcomes• A first version of the application is developed and tested • The tool will allow herd (or villages) monitoring and scoring based on baseline and endline data• Facilitate to give feedback to farmers/pastoralists and trainingThe CGIAR Research Program on Livestock thanks all donors & organizations which globally support its work through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund. cgiar.org/fundersThis document is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. June 2020Herd health management application tool  (credit: Gennaro Imperatore). Context• Herd health : holistic (health care, management, capacity development) with set target & recording• To date, missing from most animal health packages in most developing countries• challenge to adopt approach: human capacity and diligence: inaccurate paper-based recording & disease diagnosis; irrational use of medicine (AMR)• Need for suitable tool to support herd health management over timeOur innovative approach• Smart phone-based tool (in collaboration with University of Strathclyde in the UK)• Functionality of the applicationoDisease diagnosis support for AH service providersoRecommendations for appropriate treatmentoRecording functionality for production and health parameters oOffline data entry (an important feature)oUpload data to ILRI serveroContribute to AMU surveillance systemFuture steps • Routinely use tool in HEARD  project sites• Impacts and lessons documented• Promote use of herd health tool by availing it to the extension • The innovation is expected to influence policy on animal health extension systems in developing countries s.gizaw@cigar.orgLIVESTOCK HEALTH  |  HEARD projectSolomon Gizaw, Crawford Revie*, Gennaro Imperatore*, Dagim Berhanu, Barbara Wieland

Smart phone-based herd health management tool

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Smart phone-based herd health management tool

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