This e-learning course has been created in collaboration with the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). The course will introduce key concepts related to pest surveillance and pest status determination, particularly as it relates to new pest detections and emerging pests. It will provide practical guidance to assist National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPOs) in strengthening their national surveillance systems and surveillance activities to support early pest detection, pest monitoring and pest status determination.
This e-learning course targets NPPOs' managers, supervisors, and staff involved in surveillance; other staff from NPPOs or IPPC contracting parties in charge of exchanging information on new pest detections or changes in pest status and staff from private organizations responsible for phytosanitary certification of export commodities.
NPPOs' surveillance obligations, models and management.
National pest surveillance programs: prioritization, planning, methodologies and data collection.
Steps in pest status determination supported by case studies.
Pest reporting responsibilities and good practices in the context of ISPM17, and publication on the IPP.
The course consists of 6 lessons, ranging from approximately 30 - 60 minutes duration each:
Lesson 1 - National organizational arrangements: Surveillance approaches and applications
Lesson 2 - Organizational arrangements: Legislation, funding, management and human resources
Lesson 3 - Surveillance programme prioritization, planning and design
Lesson 4 - Operations and methodologies of a pest surveillance programme
Lesson 5 - Steps in determining pest status
Lesson 6 - Pest reporting
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The course content was developed by plant health experts selected from all over the world, under the auspices of the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and with the oversight
of the IPPC Implementation and Capacity Development Committee.
The course was funded by the European Union, within the 11th European Development Fund, and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), under the framework of the "FAO support to COMESA trade facilitation program".
