Tackling rural poverty, together

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Controlling transboundary animal and zoonotic diseases is a strong incentive for regional cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).  The ongoing technical assistance of the Asian Development Bank, cofinanced and implemented by FAO, will reduce poverty and improve livelihoods of the poor by increasing livestock productivity, and enhancing local, regional, and international trade in livestock and livestock products by controlling the transboundary animal diseases.  The appraoch of the intervention is to (i) develop a regional collaboration framework, (ii) formulation of a common set of policies and regulations for the management of animal movement in GMS, (iii) establishing a common disease information system, (iv) strengthening regional capacity in animal disease diagnosis, surveillance, and control, (v) formulation of national and regional disease control strategies in GMS countries.