Report of the fifth meeting of the International Coordinating Group of the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project on eliminating human and dog rabies

Overview

The purpose of the 5th ICG was to review the progress made and coordinate upcoming activities. The project was launched in 2008 but its implementation was delayed; therefore, a no-cost extension was not received until the end of 2015. The objectives of the meeting were to:
• report and review progress for each project site
• plan activities for the subsequent year
• identify challenges, opportunities and relevant lessons learnt to inform future actions 
- planning the way forward on data collation and analysis for the end-of-project outcome report
- discussing the transition of projects into wider programmes (national and international).

National coordinators and advisers to the three project sites (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; the south-eastern United Republic of Tanzania; and the Visayas, Philippines), WHO staff in country offices, regions and at headquarters, and the BMGF representative participated in the meeting.