Consultancy Opportunities – Biological Threat Reduction 📢📢📢

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) is looking for two consultants to support the implementation of the Fortifying Institutional Resilience Against Biological Threats (FIRABioT) Project in Africa.  Supported by Global Affairs Canada's Weapons Threat Reduction Program, this high-impact initiative aims to support WOAH Members in strengthening capacities to prevent, detect, prepare, respond and recover from biological threats. The project also supports the implementation of the Signature Initiative to Mitigate Biological Threats in Africa, an initiative of the Global Partnership to Prevent the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.

WOAH is looking for one consultant to work with anglophone countries and another to work with francophone countries.

📍 Base: Nairobi (remote work possible)
✈️ Travel: Regular missions across Africa
📅 Duration: 6 months (March–August 2026)
These consultants will work closely with WOAH regional and HQ teams to design, deliver, and report on an ambitious technical programme, including in-person workshops across WOAH Members in Africa.

Focus areas include:
• National contingency planning
• Risk communication
• Laboratory biological risk management
• Management of high-consequence agents and toxins
You’ll be work in collaboration with Veterinary Services and other agencies to strengthen institutional resilience against biological threats.

📌 Deadline to apply: 14 February 2026
👉 For full details and application guidelines, please click here:

Anglophone consultancy : https://rr-africa.woah.org/en/events/call-for-applications-consultant-for-biological-threat-reduction-and-emergency-preparedness-english-french-an-asset/

Francophone consultancy: https://rr-africa.woah.org/en/events/call-for-applications-consultant-for-biological-threat-reduction-and-emergency-preparedness-advanced-proficiency-in-french-is-mandatory/
 

Hi Raph,

Thanks for your support and pointing out the typo. It’s supposed to read “…about a third of an A4 sheet of paper”. Will ask the team to correct it. 

Congratulations on the launch! Excited about the growing scene of animal welfare work in Ghana.

Hi Ben,

Thanks for flagging this. We have now resolved any issues with the email button and added more templates. 

Thank you for organizing and offering this platform for knowledge sharing and community building. Can’t wait to see what Ghana has to offer 🇬🇭 

Thank you Alex for the continual support. 

Dual-AI bed nets prevented 13 million malaria cases in pilot program in 17 countries. 

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/17/malaria-prevention-next-generation-insectidal-nets-saved-lives/

Go AWL!!!

Thanks Fai. I would say most groups are starting to build a track record for cage-free work as a result a decent amount of the conversations and work is focused on that. I would suspect cage broiler is on their radar.

In Ghana, it is pretty much on our radar and not a major concern (in terms of number of hens) at the moment. I can say with 90% confidence cage broiler should it exist is less than 1% of the country’s chicken production drawing from the fact that Ghana imports about 80-95% of chicken consumed and local broiler production is still majorly seasonal.

PS: Ghana1 opens to a story about cage broiler production in Zimbabwe not Ghana.