ANNUAL REPORTS OF ACTIVITIES OF THE ALIVE PLATFORM
Second report of activities (June 05 - September 06)
The review of the Partnership at the institutional, financial, and technical levels is overall positive for its second year of implementation:
-At the institutional level, governance of ALive was transferred from the OIE to the African Union during Y II, an event that heralded ownership of the Partnership by the African stakeholders and set the stage for the Partnership to devote more attention to the concerns of the African stakeholders;
-At the financial level, the year was characterized by (i) the launch of the Partnership’s financial mechanism, the Multi-Donor Trust Fund, which is hosted by the World Bank and managed by the ALive Secretariat; and (ii) its funding by France and the European Union, thereby permitting the Partnership to function at full capacity; and
-At the technical level, the review of the implementation of the 2nd annual program of activity that was approved during the fourth Executive Committee meeting in June 2005 was mixed, as few specific products had been finalized, owing to the necessary attention given to the prevention and control of avian and human influenza.The launching of the ALive website constitutes however a major achievement since it will improve the share of information among all actors as well as the communication and decision-making for the Executive Committee members.
-Regarding the avian and human influenza, the positive note is that the Partnership was able to demonstrate its effectiveness in terms of definition of a common strategy, of coordination and financial resources mobilization. Avian influenza helped to push ALive to the forefront, which gained an international credibility during the Beijing and Vienna International Conferences on AHI.
As such, the Partnership was able to address the shortcomings identified in the assessment of Y I.
After two years of focusing on financial (implementation of financial mechanism and fund raising) and institutional (transfer of the governance to an African institution) matters, Y III must concentrate on technical aspects with the implementation of the entire First 3-year Action Plan (2004-2007), in order to deliver specific and functional products for the countries and development agencies (primary goal of ALive), and therefore provide a sustainable comprehensive development framework for livestock in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The first report of activities gives an institutional, technical and financial progres repot of the partnership during its first year of implementation, from June 04 to May 05.
The main conclusions of the reports are :
- In its first financial year, the Partnership recorded satisfactory, both on an institutional and technical level, even with the lack of the main financial tool of the Partnership, the Multi-Donor Trust Fund.For the moment, the financial balance sheet is consequently mitigated by this fact.
- From now on the Partnership will have a large number of partners; the specific and decisive involvement of the World Bank and France (MAE) must however be pointed out due to their financial and in kind contributions, as well as the OIE, in terms of institutional and technical support.
- Apart from performing the activities programme, the primary objective of ALive is being achieved, which is the implementation of a Sustainable Consultation Framework for Development of Sub-Saharan African Livestock; the next financial year will allow the knowledge obtained on this specific point to be consolidated.
- As far as short term prospects are concerned, it is important for ALive to benefit from the full support of the partners to provide the Multi-Donor Trust Funds and ensure the optimum functioning of the ALive platform.
- Finally, ALive is a model initially implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa but could well be applied in other regions; however, test must continue to be carried out for a sufficiently representative period, which could coincide with the period of the first three year action plan.
