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1 USAID EPT IDENTIFY Project – FAO, WHO and OIE Major contributions, emphasizing the most recent semi-annual reporting period. Tripartite Contributions (FAO, OIE and bined) ? IDENTIFY Partners facilitated a Stakeholders Meeting with the sub-Saharan Africa laboratory leaders (animal and public health labs), in Entebbe, Uganda in November 2-4, 2010, and worked to developed a concensus among these leaders as the the infectious animal and human diseases that should be prioritized for lab capacity building. A second and similar meeting was convened in Asia the same year to develop the same concensus for Asian laboratories. ? IDENTIFY Partners participated with USAID in the identification and refinement of performance measures to reflect the priority elements of laboratory capacity building. Four measures were identified, including panying indicators along with quantified targets to reflect degrees of plishment of these efforts. This resultant short list of indicators provide considerable focus for the anizations ’ efforts with their respective lab partners, when advancing planning and agreement on laboratory capacity building. FAO --M AI N ACHI EVEMENTS TOWARD PROJECT ES ? The IDENTIFY project has already enabled or will enable before pletion the launching of FAO innovative initiatives, such as: the ic module in the EMPRES-i database; the four-way linking framework; the laboratory mapping tool; the development of private-public partnerships between laboratories and the animal production sector; the provision of laboratories ’ access to sequencing services and the FAO guidelines on laboratory policy. The ic module represents an ideal example ofa multidisciplinary ess, linking virology, epidemiology and bioinformatics, and is receiving increased interest from the munity and policy makers. It was released to the public in March 2013. ? The support provided for sequencing services receives significant interest from beneficiary laboratories and the munity, with its potential