Response plan against viral pandemics and other cassava diseases in DRC to be operationalized

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From 24 to 25 August, IITA in partnership with INERA, the Yangambi Faculty of Agricultural Sciences Institute, the WAVE program, Food and Agriculture Organization, with the financial support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, and the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) organized an advocacy workshop on operationalizing the national cassava disease response plan in DRC.

The workshop aimed to come up with and implement a coordinated operational tool to deal with the alarming cassava situation in DRC in an emergency. The following recommendations emerged from this workshop: (1) Establishing various structures for operationalizing this plan, (2) Strengthening the capacity and empowerment of facilitators for ownership and sustainability of actions; and (3) Making available effective communication channels addressing the targets.

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