On Tuesday, 17th and Wednesday, 28th March 2026, GBADs with support from FAO and The Federal Ministry of Livestock Development conducted a Nigeria case study workshop. The meeting, located at the VCN Compound, Abuja, Nigeria, allowed local participants to attend and engage with the GBADs team and collaborate on the parametisation of the GBADs model, and see live results based on their inputs.
On Tuesday 17th March, the meeting was opened by the Chief Veterinary Officer for Nigeria Dr Samuel Anzaku who gave the meeting his blessing and full support. Following on from this Prof Jonathan Rushton gave a presentation introducing the GBADs programme to the participants, which was followed by Dr Gemma Chater’s presentation on the aims of the GBADs case study in Nigeria. These aims are: to estimate the burden of animal health loss and specifically the burden of PPR at the household, state and national levels. We then had a presentation from Dr Patience Tomoh, the National Focal Point for PPR, on the current PPR situation in Nigeria. The rest of the day was spent on an interactive session for Expert Elicitation, this included an introduction to parameterising the GBADs ‘IDEAL’ scenario in the sheep and goat dynamic population models for the agro-pastoral, pastoral and small holder systems.
On Wednesday 18th March, Dr Patience Tomoh, and Prof Folorunso Fasina presented PPR Epidemiology and parameters needed and the PPR Vaccine Costing Tool. After this Prof Wudu Temesgen presented the results of the GBADs Ethiopian Case Study and how this was achieved. This helped to show how the Nigerian Case Study could be expanded over time. Following this Dr Gemma Chaters and Jana Purkiss presented an Introduction to Population Models and Animal Health Economics in R and Geospatial Modelling and Mapping Using Data From Nigeria in R. Dr Gemma Chaters was then able to present the Nigeria Case Study All Health Loss Results showing the participants the preliminary results comparing current production to the “Ideal” production, and the preliminary PPR free production results. The results show the ideal gross margin compared to the current gross margin. The difference between these two is the Animal Health Loss Envelope (AHLE). The AHLE represents ALL causes of loss in the sheep and goat populations. The meeting was closed by Dr Patience Tomoh and Dr Samuel Anzaku (CVON), who emphasised how collaboration is key to making sure the eradication of PPR strategy works, with everybody willing to work on it.
Participants praised the outcome of the work conducted and how important the estimation of the burden of PPR is, and how good it is to see how we can start moving this forward.
This meeting was reported in the national press; this article can be read here.
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