National One Health Policy

The National One Health Policy is a national sectoral policy of Rwanda. Its main objective is to enable environment for collaboration and coordination among human, animals (domestic, wildlife) and environment to achieving optimal health outcomes in the management of emerging and reemerging infectious including plant diseases, zoonotic, vector-borne diseases, food-borne diseases AMR and other public health issues.
More specifically, it provides to create an effective platform to enhance policy, institutional, operational coordination and collaboration amongst different relevant stakeholders; put in place a joint surveillance system to prevent, early detect, respond rapidly to and recover from zoonotic diseases, vector-borne diseases, food-borne diseases, AMR and other public health issues; build and develop One Health workforce capacity in order to bridge the knowledge and skills deficits in detection, preventions and response to emerging and re-emerging infectious (plant, animal, human) diseases and other public health threats; promote applied research and innovations at the human-animal-environment interface to generate evidence that inform policy, guide interventions, legal and regulatory frameworks; strengthen national awareness mechanisms for the general public around zoonotic diseases, vector-borne diseases, plant diseases, AMR and other public health issues; and ensure that there is a clear, systematic, predictable, sustainable and well-coordinated approach to mobilizing, acquiring, utilization, management, reporting, monitoring and evaluating domestic and external resources.