This activity focuses on preventing and controlling health emergencies in pastoral areas.

It consists of:

• establishing ‘pre-warning systems to reduce vulnerability to man-made and natural disasters (epidemic, communicable diseases, flood, drought, etc.,) through the creation of strong information networks that forecast, prevent and quickly respond to emergency and disaster situations in pastoral areas’;
• ‘strengthening emergency health problems, prevention, and response units at all levels’;
• ‘conducting assessments on emergency and accident phenomenon [incidence of accidents?] and vulnerability’.

i. Strengthen evidence based decision making capability (p.56) »