CAP-Africa for One Health

The Combatting Arthropod Pests for better Health, Food and Climate Resilience (CAP-Africa), an initiative supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), was implemented by icipe from July 2018 – June 2023 in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Executed through a One health lens, the thrusts of the CAP-Africa project were: Global health – to reduce the burden of malaria and emerging infectious diseases; Climate change, pollinators and insects for food and feed; Plant health, focusing on invasive species; Animal health, aiming to generate novel knowledge on livestock vectors and diseases, as well as tools and strategies to manage them; and Education and socio-economics as intersecting components. Read more...