Foot & Mouth Disease Emergency Recovery Loan

The objectives of the scaling-up of additional financing activities are in line with the original project development objectives (see above), while the inclusio n of activities encompassing non-FMD diseases required the addition of a new obj ective: to prevent the introduction of other transboundary animal diseases of ma jor economic importance. The formally revised project objectives are: (a) to contain and mitigate the imp act of the outbreak of FMD in the Borrower#s territory through: (i) vaccination of cattle; (ii) strengthening of the monitoring and surveillance capacity of the Borrower to prevent future outbreaks from spreading beyond the directly affecte d area; and (iii) identification of alternative markets for the beef produced in the Borrower#s territory in the short-run and restoring the Borrower#s presence in the premium beef market in the long-run; and (b) to prevent the introduction of other trans-boundary animal diseases of large economic importance.