Community Animal Health Worker Resources ( CAHW )
CAHWs are members of the rural community who have been trained to provide basic animal health care. Indispensable, they often act as the first point of contact for animal health care in areas where professional veterinarians are few or absent. Their training enables them to provide vaccinations, anti-parasite treatments and first aid, as well as advice on animal nutrition and reproduction.
In these remote areas, CAHWs are essential for keeping livestock healthy, improving rural communities’ livelihoods, food security and resilience. They also help prevent the spread of zoonotic diseases, and play an important role in educating livestock farmers about sustainable livestock management practices.
Despite their crucial role, CAHWs face a number of significant challenges. Lack of legal recognition in some countries can limit their ability to provide services and obtain essential medical supplies. In addition, they need ongoing access to training to keep up to date with the latest veterinary practices and emerging health challenges.
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06-11-2024 This ECHO Best Practice Note distills insights from farmers and other specialists who collaborated in promoting livestock as a means to improve rural livelihoods. Acknowledgment is given especially to Heifer International and to all its partners who developed a substantial program that still...
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Key Resource04-11-2015 Active learning and exchange of knowledge are key to farmer adoption of beneficial agricultural innovations. Community health worker (CHW) and community animal health worker (CAHW) programs have led to a rich body of knowledge about extension, much of which is applicable to efforts aimed towards...
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20-01-2024 Vétérinaires Sans Frontières International (2024). Handbook for planning and managing CAHW programmes: How to build quality and sustainable community-based animal health services. Brussels, Belgium. In many countries around the world, Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) provide basic animal...
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From the World Organisation for Animal Health The guidelines have been designed to be comprehensive and they aim to cover all the competencies that CAHWs may need over time. Therefore, when developing a training programme for CAHWs with the help of this document, users should first list the...
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Christian Veterinary Mission (CVM) has also given ECHO permission to host their excellent publications.One of these books is Raising Healthy Poultry. This resource is an extensive, 140 page resource within CVM’s “Raising Healthy Animals Series." It has detailed information about the following...
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Dr. Maureen Birmingham and Dr. Peter Quesenberry,Revised Edition 2016 ISBN 978-1-886532-45-8 The idea for a book "Where There is No Vet" was conceived years ago. Work was officially started in 1985 by the late Dr. Bill Baker who worked as a veterinarian in Haiti for eight years. Dr. Baker...
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a. Training -IAHC encourages participatory training through which individuals are empowered to identify their challenges and then design and carry out their own solutions. b. Holistic -IAHC is committed to the development of individuals, and communities through the meeting of mental, social, and...
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LEGS is underpinned by a livelihoods approach and is based on three livelihoods objectives: Providing immediate benefits to crisis-affected communities Protecting the livestock-related assets of crisis-affected communities Assisting the re-building of key assets among crisis-affected communities...
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20-01-2020 LEGS Briefing Paper This Briefing Paper considers how community-based animal health (CBAH) services that assist livestock owning communities can be better supported by implementing agencies, and draws on the lessons learnt from a LEGS Operational Research project funded by USAID/OFDA. The...
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11-07-2016 Editors: ECHO will be hosting a three-day workshop in September at our Florida campus, on the topic of small-scale livestock production in the tropics (see the “Upcoming Events” section for details). Our Global Farm incorporates many animals, including ducks, rabbits, chickens, pigs, and goats—so...
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#SDGAction42636 In remote areas underserved by public or private qualified veterinarians, VSF trains members of hard to reach and at-risk communities in good husbandry practices and basic animal health care. These trained CAHWs are able to perform a limited range of veterinary tasks and...
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We oversee various programmes, both cross-sectoral ones and those focused on specific needs, to improve the capacities of Veterinary Services and Aquatic Animal Health Services. These programmes are designed to empower and guide countries in the development and implementation of sustainable...
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In line with its mandate and to improve its capacity to strengthen Veterinary Services and , WOAH has reformed its training system and has created for this purpose its Global Platform for the Training of Veterinary Services. This Platform has been implemented to manage WOAH training activities...
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Dr. Maureen Birmingham and Dr. Peter Quesenberry,Revised Edition 2016 ISBN 978-1-886532-45-8 The idea for a book "Where There is No Vet" was conceived years ago. Work was officially started in 1985 by the late Dr. Bill Baker who worked as a veterinarian in Haiti for eight years. Dr. Baker...
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VSF Internationalpromotes a holistic approach, integrating human, animal and environmental health, and pursues humanitarian, development, scientific, educational and advocacy objectives. VSF International’s members are mainly active in the implementation of sustainable development programs in 28...
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20-01-2018 《动物健康手册》一书，其构思已有多年。早在1985 年，已故的比利.贝克博士就正式开始了 此项工作。那时，作为一名兽医工作者，贝克博士在拉丁美洲的海地已工作8 年了，他深刻 认识到家畜在当今世界的绝大多数农村人口中所起的重要作用。于是，他设想写一本实用的书， 对生活在“没有兽医的地方”的人民有用。本书扩大了原来的想法，并明确地提出读者对象是 对家畜卫生与保健有兴趣的人们，不管他们是否自己拥有家畜。在本书里，我们称这些工作者 为“兽防员”。
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01-01-2007 This is an amazing manual covering animal functions of all the major domestic animals. It contains an incredible amount of information in one volume. It is written in a simple, easy to understand style, supplemented with many good illustrations. This book was developed to benefit rural people in...
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01-01-2018 Il s'agit d'un manuel étonnant couvrant les fonctions animales de tous les principaux animaux domestiques. Il contient une quantité incroyable d'informations en un seul volume. Il est écrit dans un style simple et facile à comprendre, complété par de nombreuses bonnes illustrations. Ce livre a...