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event, or a release of toxic agents. Ensuring this response capacity, which may include accessing exising networks and regional stockpiles, is an essenial component of
regional preparedness.
3.7.2 Strategic actions
• Strengthen regional surveillance and risk assessments by establishing a regional indicator-based surveillance system for priority diseases and rapid feedback
mechanisms for surveillance informaion. • Strengthen the regional surveillance system for public health emergencies.
• Strengthen the regional informaion-sharing system to help provide more relevant and reliable data to inform evidence-based public health acion.
• Strengthen comparability of naional data at the regional level through a number of iniiaives, including drawing up a minimum data set for rapid assessment
of novel previously unknown diseases. • Strengthen technical response networks through expanding and using GOARN
partners and other experts in the ideniicaion, preparaion and response to acute public health events.
• Build networks of relevant experts and strengthen links between naional and reference laboratories to enable access to specialized laboratory services for
emerging diseases and other public health threats.
3.8 Monitoring and evaluation
Monitoring and evaluaion ME are integral components of APSED 2010 and its
implementaion. Robust ME is fundamental to meet two criical management needs: accountability and learning. In the context of this Strategy, accountability can be deined
as the ability to demonstrate that the Strategy is efecive in achieving its objecives, that its prioriies are appropriate, and that resources have been used opimally.
Similarly, learning within the context of ME can be deined as understanding what is working and what can be done beter, which in turn helps to ensure that decisions
are based on evidence, facilitaing coninuing improvement.
3.8.1 Key components
A combinaion of country- and regional-level components is proposed to strengthen the ME system under the Strategy:
3.8.1.1 Country level
• Country workplans • APSEDIHR indicators
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Establishment of naional workplans to achieve APSED 2010 objecives will support a structured approach to capacity-building. Clear imelines and progress indicators
to monitor workplan implementaion can then be used to monitor implementaion of APSED, as well as the progress of naional capacity-building towards IHR 2005
compliance, when appropriate. Country workplans enable countries to assess their own progress and idenify needs and opportuniies. This approach may be paricularly
useful to facilitate donor coordinaion for resource-limited countries.
A number of APSED indicators will be ideniied and monitored at the regional level. These indicators will be selected from the IHR Monitoring Framework for monitoring
progress in the implementaion of IHR core capaciies in State Paries and supplemented, where necessary, by indicators set up for areas requiring speciic consideraion under
APSED 2010. Countries also may wish to consider referring to these APSED indicators as the basis for a naional tool to monitor capacity-building. Whenever possible, ME
indicators from relevant exising programmes can be uilized to reduce the burden of data collecion.
3.8.1.2 Regional level
• TAG mechanism or equivalent The annual Technical Advisory Group TAG meeing, or its equivalent, also
performs a monitoring role by reviewing progress made in the past year and making recommendaions to provide a focus for implementaion in the forthcoming year. It
is a unique forum for countries, technical experts and partners to meet and discuss APSED issues and share experiences with counterparts in the Asia Paciic region.
Country Level
Supplementary Indicators
Regional Level Country Workplan
Country Workplan
Figure 3.5 APSED 2010 monitoring and evaluation structure
TAGAPSED Forum TAGAPSED Forum
IHR Monitoring
Indicators APSED Indicators
