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Animal health

Table 52. Animal health services expenditure (level, composition and trend) in Sub-Saharan African countries

Sources:

Addis Anteneh. 1983. Financing Animal Health Services in Some African Countries. LPU Working Paper 1. ILCA, Addis Ababa.

Addis Anteneh. 1985. Financing Livestock Services in Some Countries of East and Southern Africa. LPU Working Paper 6. ILCA, Addis Ababa.

Addis Anteneh. 1991. The Financing and Staffing of Livestock Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis. LED Working Document 16. ILCA, Addis Ababa.

de Haan C and Bekure S. 1989. Animal Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa. Initial Experiences with New Approaches. World Bank.

* Does not include camels.
1/in 1975 constant prices
2/in 1980 constant prices
3/1977/78
4/70/71 - 77/78
5/74/75 - 78/79
6/71/72 - 78/79.

Blank spaces denote data not available for years shown unless otherwise indicated in footnotes 3 to 6.
LRE = Government recurrent expenditure on livestock services.
SE = Staff expenditure.
ARE = Government recurrent expenditure on all agricultural services.
TRLU = Tropical ruminant livestock unit.
1985-87 = not a 3-year average; data shown are either for 1985, 1986 or 1987.

TABLE 53. Staffing ratios in animal health services in sub-Saharan Africa, 1978/79 and 1985-87.



Country/region

1000 TRLU per



No. of auxiliary personnel per high level staff

High level staff1/

Auxiliary personnel2/

1978/79

1985-87

1978/79

1985-87

1978/79

1985-87

West Africa
Benin

36

12

4

3

8

4

Burkina Faso

145

14

13

6

11

2

Chad





Côte d'Ivoire





Gambia (The)





Ghana





Guinea





Guinea Bissau





Liberia





Mali





Mauritania

312

39

10

7

32

6

Niger

93

61

9

6

10

11

Nigeria





Senegal

15

12

4

3

3

4

Sierra Leone





Togo

25


3


9


Central Africa
Angola





Burundi





Cameroon

34

30

5

4

15

8

Cent. Afr. Rep.

65

30

3

5

24

7

Congo





Gabon





Rwanda





Zaire





East Africa
Ethiopia

196

225

27

21

7

11

Kenya

35

19

3

2

10

9

Somalia





Sudan





Tanzania





Uganda





Southern Africa
Botswana

60

106

6

4

10

24

Lesotho

48


3


17


Madagascar





Malawi

39


2


23


Mauritius





Mozambique





Swaziland

40


2




Zambia





Zimbabwe





Sources:

Addis Anteneh. 1983. Financing Animal Health Services in Some African Countries. LPU Working Paper 1, ILCA, Addis Ababa.

Addis Anteneh. 1985. Financing Livestock Services in Some Countries of East and Southern Africa. LPU Working Paper 8. ILCA, Addis Ababa.

Addis Anteneh. 1991. The Financing and Staffing of Livestock Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis, LED Working Document 16. ILCA, Addis Ababa.

de Haan C and Bekure S. 1989. Animal Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Initial Experiences with New Approaches. World Bank.

FAO Production Yearbooks, 1981 and 1985.

FAO-WHO-OIE. 1963 and 1984. Animal Health Yearbook.

1/High level staff includes all graduate veterinarians and above.
2/Auxiliary personnel includes all staff other than high level staff.
TRLU = Tropical ruminant livestock unit.
A blank space means data not available.


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