SADC SECRETARIAT EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT FUND Promotion of Regional Integration in the SADC Livestock Sector (PRINT Livestock Project) 9 ACP SAD 002 Report of a Mission to Seychelles LIMS adoption mission (Training on application & Standards Operating Procedures) and Situation analysis of the Livestock sector PRINT Report N°: PB-BB-LIMS-SEY-07-2009 Dr. Pascal BONNET, Chief Technical Adviser, PRINT Dr Berhanu Bedane Information Technical Adviser, PRINT SADC Secretariat FANR Directorate, Millenium Office Park Kgale View P/Bag 0095 Gaborone Botswana Dates: 19th – 25th July 2009 Acknowledgments We would like to thank all the colleagues who participated to the training and contributed to the success of this mission in one way or another, particularly Mr Moustache the CEO of the Seychelles Agriculture Agency (SAA) for allowing the mission, Mrs Sandra Moumou and Dr Jimmy Melanie from SAA for having organized all logistics for the events, our colleagues from the Agricultural Statistics Ministry of Health and Environment, the SAHCT Training centre and the National Statistical Bureau NSB, for the warm welcome accorded to us and their patience during the intense and fruitful discussions. Their commitment to the LIMS community is highly appreciated. Page 2 LIMS adoption mission Situation Analysis Seychelles Pascal Bonnet & Berhanu Bedane July 2009 © PRINT Index Summary............................................................................................................................ 4 1. OBJECTIVES OF THE MISSION............................................................................. 6 2. INSTITUTION VISITED AND PERSONS ............................................................... 6 3. ACTIVITIES................................................................................................................. 6 3-1. Stakeholder meeting.............................................................................................. 6 3-2. Training on LIMS................................................................................................ 19 Agenda of the LIMS training................................................................................. 20 Validation of Geographical Partitions .................................................................. 29 Components, Modules and Templates looked at during the training................ 45 Related Manuals on templates and the LIMS application.................................. 74 3-3. Drafting of first LIMS SoP’s for SEYCHELLES............................................. 75 3-4. Presentation of some features of the LIMS web portal.................................... 87 4. Other Topics (than LIMS) discussed during the mission: FaNGR...................... 103 5. CONCLUSIONS & Way forwards ......................................................................... 111 Annexures / Annexes..................................................................................................... 112 ANNEX I – Terms of reference for the mission and Speech of the CEO SAA for the launching of LIMS...................................................................................................... 112 ANNEX II – Training Handhout left to Seychelles:................................................... 115 ANNEX III – CD (electronic annexes) left to Seychelles .......................................... 116 ANNEX IV – Proposed SoP sheet (excerpt to be improved by MS) ......................... 118 ANNEX V – Comment sheets (a/ bugs & b/ templates/screens)................................ 130 ANNEX VI – List of Modules into LIMS.................................................................. 138 ANNEX VII – Installation and Running Procedures with Vista and Access 2007 .... 140 ANNEX VIII – Web-mapping manual on http://lims.sadc.int ................................... 144 Page 3 LIMS adoption mission Situation Analysis Seychelles Pascal Bonnet & Berhanu Bedane July 2009 © PRINT BACK TO OFFICE MISSION REPORT Summary Country : Seychelles Mission team : Dr Pascal Bonnet CTA PRINT, Dr B. Bedane Information specialist PRINT Dates : 19th – 25th July 2009 Venue : Care House Victoria, Seychelles (Mahé Island) Introduction: mission rationale and objective The Livestock Sector Unit (LSU) in the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) Directorate of the SADC Secretariat is entrusted to promote regional integration and sustainable livestock development. The PRINT Livestock Project in FANR became operational in July 2005. The project’s specific objective is to establish a livestock information management system (LIMS) in Animal Production and Health, Marketing and Trade. The generation of up-to-date and reliable information will assist the coordinating role of FANR as well as the development of harmonized policies and strategies in the SADC livestock sector. The mission team comprised two SADC staff, namely, Dr. Pascal Bonnet (Animal Health & Livestock Economist, CTA Chief Technical Adviser PRINT – CIRAD), Dr B. Bedane Information Specialist PRINT. Summary of SADC PRINT mission: The mission was the launching of the SADC LIMS system in the Seychelles and comprised three components: • a 3 days Training of trainers on the LIMS application and the principles of the LIMS system. It also served as a preliminary stage for establishing the rules of and drafting the first elements of Standards Operating Procedures of LIMS in Seychelles. • Seminar on AIMS: It included discussions with the potential contributors to and potential users of the LIMS system. • Situation analysis of the sector: visits of the major stakeholders in the sector Detailed ToR’s and timetable of the mission are provided in full in the annexures. Funding of mission: PRINT CIRAD budget (operational budget: April to October 2009, cf Addendum CIRAD contract). 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OBJECTIVES OF THE MISSION The overall objective of the mission in SEYCHELLES was to launch the LIMS system. This mission was also a follow up of the comprehensive situation analysis and information needs assessments in this new SADC member state as its had started by PRINT in all SADC member states in 2007. The LIMS system is made of 1/ the LIMS software developed in MS Access© (to capture data or import specially formatted MS Excel data sheets), 2/ LIMS reporting templates (a set of eleven (11) LIMS core quantitative data reporting modules) which national staff are sensitized and trained on, 3/ procedures for information exchange (SoP, Standards Operating Procedures) and for using LIMS application applied through 3/ a network of stakeholders working in collaboration (forming the national LIMS network* and from which some nominated members are also members of the four LTC regional sub committees), 4/ a set of technical reference documents and training material (i.e. LIMS manuals, Training handouts etc..), 5/ a LIMS portal (web site) embedded into the