FAO has launched a Free Online Course on Surveillance and Pest Status Determination. Certificate will be provided after the completion of the Course.
About the Course
This e-learning course has been created in collaboration with the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). The course will introduce key concepts related to pest surveillance and pest status determination, particularly as it relates to new pest detections and emerging pests. It will provide practical guidance to assist National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPOs) in strengthening their national surveillance systems and surveillance activities to support early pest detection, pest monitoring and pest status determination.
Audience
This e-learning course targets NPPOs’ managers, supervisors, and staff involved in surveillance; other staff from NPPOs or IPPC contracting parties in charge of exchanging information on new pest detections or changes in pest status and staff from private organizations responsible for phytosanitary certification of export commodities.
Learnings
- NPPOs’ surveillance obligations, models and management.
- National pest surveillance programs: prioritization, planning, methodologies and data collection.
- Steps in pest status determination supported by case studies.
- Pest reporting responsibilities and good practices in the context of ISPM17, and publication on the IPP.
Course Structure
The course consists of 6 lessons, ranging from approximately 30 – 60 minutes duration each:
Lesson 1 – National organizational arrangements: Surveillance approaches and applications
Lesson 2 – Organizational arrangements: Legislation, funding, management and human resources
Lesson 3 – Surveillance programme prioritization, planning and design
Lesson 4 – Operations and methodologies of a pest surveillance programme
Lesson 5 – Steps in determining pest status
Lesson 6 – Pest reporting
System Requirements
This course runs on the latest versions of the major browsers, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari.
The course opens in a separate popup window. If this does not happen, a popup blocker in the browser is probably preventing it from opening and you will need to disable popup blockers for this site. Please read the following instructions on how to do this.
How to Register?
Interested participants can register through this link.
Click here to view the official notification of the FAO Course on Surveillance and Pest Status Determination.
