GARC and FAO facilitated a virtual SARE re-assessment workshop. The SARE re-assessment ensured that the SARE assessment was updated to reflect the progress that had been made, and the accompanying work plan was revised to adjust the appropriate time frames and activities that still need to be completed.
Rabies Elimination Progress
The Stepwise Approach towards Rabies Elimination (SARE) is a practical planning, monitoring and evaluation tool to guide, develop and refine rabies control programmes. It provides measurable steps, designed as a logical flow of activities, to progress from Stage 0 to Stage 5, in efforts towards freedom from dog-transmitted rabies.
A SARE score of 2 out of 5 signifies a country where a national rabies control strategy has been drafted and is being implemented.
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November 2020: GARC signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute to ensure continued collaboration and facilitate progress towards rabies elimination. The MoU primarily focuses on improving rabies surveillance with specific focus on the Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin and its component.

Laboratory experts and multiple stakeholders were trained in the use of the Rabies Case Surveillance (RCS) component of the Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin. The RCS will be used in the central and regional laboratories to map and laboratory diagnostic data for rabies throughout the entire country.

After an in-depth training session hosted by GARC, all of the laboratory animal rabies cases and clinically diagnosed human rabies cases for Addis Ababa are captured using the Rabies Case Surveillance (RCS) component of the Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin.

The Community-Based Rabies Surveillance (CBRS) Project was launched in Ethiopia. The launch consisted of the initial planning and development of the CBRS program for further roll-out.

Network / Workshop participation:
Attended the "New WHO recommendations on human rabies immunization and results of Gavi’s Learning Agenda on rabies & 2nd international meeting of the Pan-African Rabies Control Network (PARACON)" (more information)

Network / Workshop participation:
Attended the "2nd sub-Regional PARACON meeting" (more information)

GARC, in collaboration with the FAO and the CDC, participated in a nationally organised write-shop to develop a multi-sectoral National Rabies Prevention and Control Strategy (NRPCS) for Ethiopia.

Network / Workshop participation:
Attended the "East Africa rabies community meeting" (more information)

GARC facilitated an offline Rabies Educator Certificate (REC) workshop. As a direct result of the workshop, 38 participants passed the final assessment and were awarded their certificate of achievement.

GARC, in partnership with the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), facilitated an in-country SARE assessment in Ethiopia (more information).

Network / Workshop participation:
Attended the "Inaugural Pan-African Rabies Control Network (PARACON) meeting" (more information)