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German Biosecurity Programme

Implementing GP Member | Germany

Launched by the Federal Foreign Office in 2013, the programme has implemented multi-year projects to strengthen interagency biosecurity collaboration, develop and maintain biosafety and biosecurity measures and build capacities in detection and diagnostics in 28 countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, DR Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania and Tunisia. In addition, the GIBACHT fellowship programme has trained 83 health professionals from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

The German Biosecurity Programme is currently running in its fourth phase (2023-2025). Cooperation is conducted with Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.