FAO has launched a Free Online Course on Surveillance and Pest Status Determination. Certificate will be provided after the completion of 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.
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.
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
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.
Interested participants can register through this link.
