Self-Assessment and Monitoring System for Dog Population Management

Dog population management is as a priority topic for the WOAH Platform on Animal Welfare for Europe. The SAM4DPM (Self-assessment and monitoring for dog population management), developed under the WOAH Platform in collaboration with IZS-Teramo, aims at supporting the WOAH Members to better understand their national situation, and to progressively monitor and self-assess the level of compliance with WOAH standards on dog population management.

This IT data management tool makes the WOAH Members completely self-sufficient in monitoring and assessing the progresses of their own individual roadmaps. Fully aligned with the new TAHC Chap. 7.7 recommendations, it automatizes the self-assessment process, allows live-time and user-friendly analysis of the information, and helps countries to analyse their own date independently, in line with the revised TAHC Chapter 7.7 recommendations.

 

Each WOAH Member has its own Country Profile Administrator (CPA) accessible by credentials. Both national and regional/local data can be entered and updated in the SAM4DPM System, to generate upon need:

• country reports made of schemes and graphics showing the actual level of compliance with Chapter 7.7
• country roadmaps showing the pathway to be followed to reach the full implementation of Chap. 7.7.
• benchmarking reports allowing to compare the national performances against “the (existing) best ones” and to adopt corrective measures that fit their overall approach to continuous DPM systems improvement at country level.

I f you are interest to use the SAM4DPM tool, please contact the WOAH Sub-regional representation in Bruxelles by mail: [email protected]