Project
Expert and user validation of One Health policy screening tool
From a democratic public policy perspective, One Health is aimed at weighing the values, interests, issues and partial solutions of interdependent components of a complex adaptive ecosystem, and seeking a balance in trade-offs between them. The One Health policy screening tool provides an overview as input to the political designation of balanced policy priorities.
The aims of the tool are:
(1) to inform a reconsideration of the government’s weighing of One Health aspects, as well as
(2) to assess the policy proposal’s integrative capacity for One Health.
The tool supports the identification of potential policy impacts or lacking consideration of a range of One Health core aspects, and a rapid appraisal of the current integrative level of One Health aimed policies. The purpose is a desktop screening by policy advisors based on existing information to be completed within a few days. Following the OHHLEP 2022 definition, the tool offers a relative quick, non-exhaustive overview of the broad One Health spectrum, and references to existing open access impact assessment frameworks, global or EU databases of core aspect composite country indicators, and policy guidance resources.
Developing, testing, deploying and improving
This work package focuses on developing, testing, deploying and improving this and a second OH decision-making tools developed for the project level by WSER. Synergies will be built between these tools to sharpen their efficiency in supporting decision makers. In parallel to finalising the testing methodologies, a OH crash course intended to nurture OH thinking and help users to learn to use the tools will be developed building on existing course content (WSER – Global One Health short course). Upon completing the crash course, participants will have the opportunity to apply and test the tool. Throughout the project, several opportunities will be explored to test the tool in various contexts, with a focus on Kenya, Indonesia, and potentially European partners such as Sciensano, Heifer International Netherlands, FAO One Health team (contact already established). In each country, special efforts will be made to engage high-level decision-makers from ministries (e.g., health, agriculture, environment), donors, civil society organizations, and knowledge institutes. These stakeholders will be invited to join the training and test the tool. This initiative aims to enhance their OH capacity, encourage the adoption of the tool in their practices, and lay the foundation for future collaborations. Beyond Erraze resources, the ambition is to secure joint investment (possibly in-kind) from the user’s organisations. Learning from these tests, the tools will be improved, and new pathways of development and deployment identified to pave the way for future activities.