Title
Assessing the acceptability of a pilot multi-stakeholder wildlife health surveillance network in Cambodia
Author(s)
Chea, Sokha; Goutard, Flavie L.; Pruvot, Mathieu; Thongyan, Suporn
Published
2021
Abstract
The wildlife conservation society in collaboration with the government of Cambodia, established a pilot wildlife health surveillance network in Cambodia. The pilot surveillance system was based on the existing of human resources and infrastructures, focused on increasing collaboration of multiple stakeholders across sectors. This study aimed to assess the acceptability of pilot wildlife health surveillance network of stakeholders using participatory approaches, based on three main criteria, acceptability of the objective of the pilot wildlife health surveillance network, the operations, and the trust. Overall, participants expressed good acceptability of the objective, the system operation, their own roles within the system, and the trust among stakeholders in the system. Various issues related to barriers of stakeholders to involved in the surveillance system were raised during group discussion which were essential for implementation to improve current wildlife health surveillance system.
Keywords
acceptability; disease investigation; evaluation; one health; surveillance system
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