Community-Based Avian Influenza Control Project in Indonesia Notes Significant Successes, Paves the Way for More
- Residents of the village of Banjaran in Bandung district, West Java province, gather to talk about the dangers of bird flu and participate in a rural appraisal. Source: CBAIC/Arie Parikesit
- Using the USAID consensus report on key audiences and behaviors for avian influenza (AI) risk reduction, CBAIC developed an umbrella brand for project-developed information, education, and communication (IEC) materials. AKSI 100% BERSIH (“Actions for 100% Cleanliness”) focuses on hygiene for disease control, rather than simply AI or AI control. Source: CBAIC
- CBAIC communication efforts range from mass media campaigns (through national TV and radio stations) to education and training sessions, including dissemination of IEC materials to support community mobilization activities and biosecurity improvement for commercial poultry farms. Source: USAID/Roman Woronowycz
- Local government representatives (from the Agriculture and Human Health sectors) meet with USAID/Indonesia Mission Director, Walter North, to express their highest appreciation of USAID support to reduce the risk of AI in Indonesia through the CBAIC program. Source: USAID/Roman Woronowycz
- A mini replica of a farm practicing simple biosecurity measures is shown at the Conference Exhibition, providing a model of what can be done in semi-intensive commercial poultry farms (poultry production ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 per cycle). Source: USAID/Roman Woronowycz
- USAID Avian Influenza specialist Artha Camellia speaks to the press at a conference entitled “Sustaining Efforts to Reduce Risk of AI through Partnerships,” which was held to mark the end of the four-year USAID-CBAIC program.
Source: USAID/Roman Woronowycz
- Al team members in Singaparna, Tasikmalaya, conduct a participatory risk assessment of their community. After identifying their AI transmission risks, they developed and implemented a plan to reduce or eliminate those risks. Source: CBAIC
- As part of the communication support, CBAIC placed ballyhoo billboards that highlight AI risk reduction messages at key locations along the heavily traveled and densely populated “poultry corridor,” which funnels poultry and poultry products into the greater Jakarta area. Source: CBAIC
- Market AI teams worked with vendors to identify and reduce AI transmission risks. They also monitored their markets to make sure risk reduction measures continued to be implemented. Source: CBAIC
- Communities participating in the community mobilization program also enlist religious figures to help in local AI risk reduction efforts. Sarimanggu, Tasikmalaya, is just one example. Source: CBAIC
- Community events were entertaining and educational. They included live music, a fun “safe behaviors” skit with a popular TV celebrity, AI-themed games, and a live-action contest, where volunteers (like the boy in the yellow shirt) were selected from the audience to pantomime a “safe behavior” described by the MCs. Source: CBAIC
- AI teams work to protect their communities from the disease. Residents of Sadangmekar, West Bandung, and their AI team give the “thumbs up” sign after a successful work session. Source: CBAIC
- Clean, disinfect, and leave empty for at least 24 hours. These biosecurity practices are key to reducing the risk of AI transmission for members of the poultry supply chain who raise or hold poultry. The CBAIC PSP program found through monitoring efforts that the majority of participating Sector 3 broiler farms can implement these steps to help them reduce the risk of AI. Source: CBAIC
- On January 12, 2010, the Center for Science and Technology (Pusat Peragaan Iptek) opened a permanent bird flu exhibition in the exhibition ground of Taman Mini Indonesia Indah. It showcases the cultures of the different regions of Indonesia and has scientific exhibitions. The exhibition uses a variety of means to convey information about AI. Source: CBAIC
- The bird flu exhibition displays posters, full-scale models of family poultry, an interactive model of a virus particle, computer quizzes, and a large board game. A significant part of the technical and communication material used in the exhibition came from CBAIC. The Center for Science and Technology created the exhibition with support from the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), under its Bird Flu Awareness Project in Primary Schools project. Source: CBAIC
Since 2006, USAID support to the Community-Based Avian Influenza Control (CBAIC) project in Indonesia has strengthened cooperation among government bodies, local communities, and commercial poultry private sector producers to increase H5N1 avian influenza awareness and outbreak control measures. As a result, the commercial poultry farms that participated in the project now implement adequate biosecurity practices, and more than 100 million people across 27,000 villages in Indonesia are informed about how to reduce risks associated with the disease.
Through intensive community empowerment activities in an area where a majority of confirmed H5N1 human and animal cases have been reported in Indonesia, risk reduction practices among critical groups throughout the poultry supply chain, including backyard and commercial farmers, poultry traders, and consumers, were fostered. The CBAIC project, which concludes in June 2010, has set a foundation for longer-term engagement by key stakeholders in Indonesia for continued efforts against H5N1 avian influenza. USAID/Indonesia also is working to establish a new phase of CBAIC, which will build upon the important contributions of the project.
In collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, USAID is providing ongoing support for a robust Avian and Pandemic Influenza prevention and control program with its partners. These include the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the World Health Organization, John Snow International, and the Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness program, implemented by the International Federation of the Red Cross, the Indonesian Red Cross, and other partners.
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