Table 3 Structure of One Health platforms in Vietnam and Ethiopia
Characteristics | Vietnam | Ethiopia |
|---|---|---|
Purpose | Shared objective of addressing health issues at the interface of human, animal, and environmental health through multisectoral collaboration using a One Health approach | |
Scope | Addresses a range of issues including disease surveillance, zoonotic disease control, antimicrobial resistance, food safety, and environmental health | |
Core activities | Coordination across sectors, policy and strategy development, surveillance and response to health threats, capacity building, advocacy, research, and resource mobilization | |
Governance | - Chair and co-chairs, roles filled by government representatives, coordinates activities between ministries, develops and implement national One Health plans, and establishes technical working groups (e.g. for zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, food safety, etc.) - Secretariat, role filled by a government representative, manages administrative tasks - Technical working groups, nested under One Health platforms, comprise experts from relevant fields and serve advisory and operational functions for platforms | |
Setup and operations | Established in 2016 by stakeholders including 27 ministries and development partners in Vietnam, which expanded to 31 stakeholders since the launch of the new partnership framework in 2021 | Established in 2016 by stakeholders including eight ministries and development partners in Ethiopia |