Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoUnifeed
UGANDA / CATTLE HEALTH
STORY: UGANDA / CATTLE HEALTH
TRT: 7.04
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / KARAMOJONG
DATELINE: 24 APRIL 2013, MOROTO, UGANDA/KENYA BORDER
1. Wide shot, aerial view of border region with villages near Moroto in Uganda
2. Wide shot, area with cattle in the background near Moroto in Uganda
3. Wide shot, cattle passing by with herdsman
4. Wide shot, woman preparing food on fire
5. Med shot, pastoralist Cholima Logid seated next to woman with child in front of hut
6. Close up, woman with child
7. SOUNDBITE (Karamojong) Cholima Logid, pastoralist:
“When I went to Kenya I discovered that most of the cows were dead on the way. Even the one I bought I found it was sick.”
8. Wide livestock walking away
9. Wide shot, veterinary officers doing check up with cow
10. Close up, taking blood sample from neck of cow
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kennedy Ojuang, C&D lab assistant:
“These blood samples we normally do as disease surveillance and the idea is that we normally collect these blood samples on a return basis. So what we do is we go and check them for various parasites which are responsible for causing disease in cattle.”
12. Wide shot, cattle against mountain backdrop
13. Wide shot, vets herding cattle
14. Wide shot, mountain with cattle in distant foreground
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel Isingoma, C&D district veterinary officer:
“You may find that people on one side of the border they are controlling diseases but the people on the other side of the border are not controlling diseases, maybe serial vaccinations or other treatments.”
16. Wide shot, dignitaries from governments Kenya and Uganda, IGAD standing in tent
17. Close up, signboard about signing ceremony Memorandum of Understanding
18. Close up, signing Memorandum of Understanding
19. Wide shot, signing Memorandum of Understanding
20. Close up, signing Memorandum of Understanding
21. Wide shot, signatory parties shaking hands after signing
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Mangano Acted, Area coordinator:
“ACTED’s role started in 2011 when we initiated a cross border meeting at a very local level. Just among the district veterinary officers. At that time it was to control an outbreak of brucellosis. We entered that time that the DVOs didn’t have the freedom that time without blessing from their ministries and as a result we had to move to ministry level.”
23. Wide shot, cattle with boy passing by
24. Med shot, lady with bag on her head walking through shot with goats
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuella Olesambu, RISPA project coordinator:
“The next step is now how to implement and the implementation entails the development of a program. A program that is going to look at specifics on how to coordinate and share information. Number two on how to have activities. For example in animal health. How will they synchronize the various the various vaccinations and treatment, information sharing and surveillance. How will they synchronize? That’s the critical part of the memorandum.”
26. Wide shot, dry river bed
27. Close up, stones in dry river bed
28. Wide shot, pastoralist woman pouring water in basin
29. Med shot, dignitaries standing behind table in tent
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambasador Mahboub Maalim, IGAD Executive Secretary:
“What gives us trust is that we definitely have the highest political good will ever observed in our region. You have seen the presence of parliamentarians here including the chairman of the parliamentarian committee of DRM. You have seen the fact that Uganda having taken the initiative to have a ministry here with a very high leadership. We have the interest of the ‘second goals’ faze basically veterinarians and therefore this has to work.”
31. Wide shot, community animal health worker entering compound
32. Med shot, animal health worker spraying goat against ticks
33. Wide shot, animal health worker removing medicines from his health kit
34. Close up, medicines on the ground
35. SOUNDBITE (Karamojong) Timothy Kelae, Community animal health worker:
“To us community health workers actually we have a challenge of lack of drugs. Like now for this season the medicines given for the animal got finished.”
36. SOUNDBITE (Karamojong) Emmanuella Plesambu, project coordinator RISPA:
“The MoU will not necessarily provide the drugs. But the key thing is the implementation of it, which is going to be trough the program. The program now will go specifically to where the need is. If there is a need for drugs, if there is a need for vaccination, then that is going to be picked up and provided by the respective government programs.”
37. Wide shot, man riding bicycle revolving cattle keeper with herd
38. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambasador Mahboub Maalim, IGAD Executive Secretary:
“Yes, this is an African continental agenda and therefore it starts somewhere and of course we have to spread the success. In the IGAD region we have to spread it to other countries and then to move on to other countries on the pan African continent.”
39. Med shot, front light cattle walking away with boy herding
Animal health among pastoralist communities in Kenya and Uganda to benefit from new cross border agreement.
This is the border region of Uganda with Kenya, a remote area inhabited by communities whose livelihoods depend on livestock.
In search of pastures and water sources they frequently cross the border with their cattle and goats.
Cholima Logid, a father of nine, used to cross the border to trade livestock but he was confronted with different challenges.
SOUNDBITE (Karamojong) Cholima Logid, pastoralist:
“When I went to Kenya I discovered that most of the cows were dead on the way. Even the one I bought I found it was sick.”
Diseases cross the border with ease. Pastoralists can only rely on services offered at end points in either Uganda or Kenya. Like here in Moroto Uganda where local organizations maintain routine checkups.
SOUNDBITE (English) Kennedy Ojuang, C&D lab assistant:
“These blood samples we normally do as disease surveillance and the idea is that we normally collect these blood samples on a return basis. So what we do is we go and check them for various parasites which are responsible for causing disease in cattle.”
But there are differences in the quality and the prices of the veterinary services offered on both sides of the border.
And the lack of coordination makes it difficult to control disease outbreaks.
SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel Isingoma, C&D district veterinary officer:
“You may find that people on one side of the border they are controlling diseases but the people on the other side of the border are not controlling diseases, maybe serial vaccinations or other treatments.”
With support from the EU and ECHO, this situation prompted IGAD, FAO and other organizations to initiate a program to harmonize animal health care on both sides of the borders.
April 2013, a Memorandum of Understanding between the governments of Uganda and Kenya is signed.
The agreement commits both governments to develop programs for animal health care in the border regions.
The local NGO ACTED initiated the process.
SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Mangano Acted, Area coordinator:
“ACTED’s role started in 2011 when we initiated a cross border meeting at a very local level. Just among the district veterinary officers. At that time it was to control an outbreak of brucellosis. We entered that time that the DVOs didn’t have the freedom that time without blessing from their ministries and as a result we had to move to ministry level.”
Under the RISPA initiative FAO liaised with the Governments of Kenya and Uganda and the cross-border animal health coordination was moved up the political agenda, resulting in the Memorandum of Understanding.
SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuella Olesambu, RISPA project coordinator:
“The next step is now how to implement and the implementation entails the development of a program. A program that is going to look at specifics on how to coordinate and share information. Number two on how to have activities. For example in animal health. How will they synchronize the various the various vaccinations and treatment, information sharing and surveillance. How will they synchronize? That’s the critical part of the memorandum.”
After the devastating drought that hit the Horn of Africa in 2011 governments in Eastern Africa spearheaded initiatives to increase resilience of vulnerable communities.
This new partnership is an important step.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ambasador Mahboub Maalim, IGAD Executive Secretary:
“What gives us trust is that we definitely have the highest political good will ever observed in our region. You have seen the presence of parliamentarians here including the chairman of the parliamentarian committee of DRM. You have seen the fact that Uganda having taken the initiative to have a ministry here with a very high leadership. We have the interest of the ‘second goals’ faze basically veterinarians and therefore this has to work.”
One of the first issues to tackle is a frequently reported lack of drugs to treat sick livestock.
Here Timothy Kelae is spraying a goat against ticks.
But getting the spray and other treatments and medicines is a major issue.
SOUNDBITE (Karamojong) Timothy Kelae, Community animal health worker:
“To us community health workers actually we have a challenge of lack of drugs. Like now for this season the medicines given for the animal got finished.”
SOUNDBITE (Karamojong) Emmanuella Plesambu, project coordinator RISPA:
“The MoU will not necessarily provide the drugs. But the key thing is the implementation of it, which is going to be trough the program. The program now will go specifically to where the need is. If there is a need for drugs, if there is a need for vaccination, then that is going to be picked up and provided by the respective government programs.”
According to IGAD the experiences will serve as model for other countries with pastoralist communities.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ambasador Mahboub Maalim, IGAD Executive Secretary:
“Yes, this is an African continental agenda and therefore it starts somewhere and of course we have to spread the success. In the IGAD region we have to spread it to other countries and then to move on to other countries on the pan African continent.”
Download
There is no media available to download.
