Nigeria Demonstrates Improvement in its Second Joint External Evaluation (JEE)

As a signatory to the adoption of the International Health Regulations (IHR) at the 58th World Health Assembly, Nigeria conducted its first Joint External Evaluation (JEE) in 2017 using the JEE tool. This first JEE enabled the development of a five-year National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) in 2018 to help improve the country’s ability to prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies, and also formed the baseline that will be used to measure the country’s improvements in subsequent JEEs.

The IHR-SP One Health team supports the pilot of the WHO Response Preparedness Programme (RePrep) Operational Tool and the Workforce Development Operational Tool (WFD OT) in Ethiopia

The World Health Organization (WHO) Response Preparedness (RePrep) workshop on preparedness for response to zoonotic outbreaks was held in Addis Ababa from 23-26 May 2023. The workshop is part of the RePrep programme that the WHO developed to support countries in developing a joint, intersectoral framework for zoonotic disease outbreak response. The workshop in Addis Ababa was among the first implementations of this programme globally and the first in Africa.