FAO/OIE/WHO Joint Congo River Basin Laboratory Capacity Building and Networking Stakeholder's Meeting (IDENTIFY)

The FAO/OIE/WHO Joint Congo Region Laboratory Capacity Building and Networking Stakeholder’s Meeting was organized for the beneficiary countries of the Congo Basin Region under the IDENTIFY Project. About a hundred participants actively took part in this meeting from both human and animal health sectors and this included Directors of Laboratory Services at Ministries of Health, Director s of Public Health, OIE Delegates, Director s of Central or National Veterinary Laboratories and wildlife counterparts. The participants of the meeting were from 14 countries being: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Republic of Congo, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Other participants were from reference laboratories situated outside of the Congo Basin region from both human and animal health laboratories, other EPT projects, and the regional economic community.