A national One Health Joint Plan of Action (OH JPA) workshop was organized and facilitated by the Asia Pacific Quadripartite One Health team from 27-29 February 2024 in Dhaka.
The overall objective of the workshop was to support the ongoing OH initiatives of Bangladesh led by the One Health Secretariat and update the current One Health Strategy Framework 2017-2021 to One Health Strategy Framework 2024-2030, aligning and harmonizing it with the global OH JPA, and based on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though Bangladesh is relatively more advanced in institutionalizing OH governance structure and has implemented two series of OH strategic plans, the officials appreciated the value of expanding OH scope beyond zoonoses. Since it was also the first country to be piloted in the region, the lessons learned from this workshop will be used to refine the agenda and methodology for other countries in the pipeline.
