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. 2023 Nov 23;11:1252428. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1252428

Table 3.

Different barriers found.

Barriers summary
Governance and leadership
National (2731)
Regional (32)
District (33)
Community (34)
_Lack of political will, unsupportive policies
_Lack of organized institutions and a proper and legal framework.
_Lack of policies in different sectors
_Duplication of other institutional arrangements
_Bureaucracy and coordination challenges
_Problem of ownership by ministries
_Underbudget for the support of the function of the approach
_Unproper decisions taken at the central level, not adapted to the realities in the field
_The platform is not fully operational to meet the objectives
_Lack of interest of health experts in the “one health” concept
_Low level of adoption of One Health approaches was low (in the community),
_No sops for preparedness and response available at the local level
Planning process
District (34)
_No guidelines for preparedness and response
_No up-to-date information on preparedness and response protocols and availability of emergency resources such as PPE vaccines, syringes etc. was often poor
Collaborative networks
National (28, 29)
District (33, 34)
Community (27, 34, 35)
_Competing departmental priorities and institutional interests
_Shortcomings in collaboration for intersectoral surveillance
_No evidence of formal multisectoral collaboration and communication
_Lack of teamwork between health experts
_Egoism of health experts who do not consider public benefits when collaborating
_Lack of data sharing with other sectors
_Lack of trust in drugs and the intervention by the community
_Lack of communication with the community
_Weak implication of animal health sector response in the community
Community engagement
At the local level (35)
_Hesitancy due to hygienic problems (mode of delivery)
Surveillance and monitoring
National (28, 31)
Regional (28)
District (29, 34)
Community (34)
_Disparate human and animal disease reporting systems,
_Weak health system in the animal and human sector
_Absence of an effective data-sharing system at all the level
_Weak mainstreaming in the disease surveillance system
_Lack of adequate resources, particularly for the detection of cases in event-based surveillance systems
_Not enough staff to cover the whole territory effectively
_High turnover of officers at the local level exacerbates the lack of skilled maintenance
_Weakness of laboratory network
_The paper-based alert system is considered too archaic to allow for rapid and quality notification and response
Practice and experience
National (28, 29)
District (29)
Community (29, 35)
_Limited knowledge of zoonoses by relevant cross-sector actors
_Lack of training and technical capacities and lack of appropriation of the concept by some sectors like environment and animal
_Low level of implication in the environment and animal sector in surveillance and interventions
_Lack of support of another sector, like the environment, by TFPs
_Lack of dissemination of the approach within the various institutions in the central and decentralized services
_Lack or low level of knowledge about how joint interventions at the local level
_Communities are less well aware than the central level in One Health activities
Resources
National (2730, 34)
Regional (29, 32)
District (33, 34)
Community (34)
_Insufficient financial resources from the government
_Mismanagement or lack of funds and supplies for emergency and disease investigation
_Poor infrastructure and resourcing, particularly in human and animal health service
_Lack of human resources
_Lack of cold chain maintenance of the vaccine
_Lack of adequate resources for the function of One Health Platform activities
_The TFPs more frequently tend to finance vertical programs for specific diseases, particularly in the human sector
_Weakness of the national capacity to mobilize resources
Workforce capacity
National (27, 29)
_Lack of trust toward local health systems
_Mistrust between actors
_Egos and different mindsets among actors
_Different administrative cultures or working practices
Communication
National (2729)
Regional (32)
District (27)
Community (27, 35)
_Lack of information and communication for the activities to put in place in the community or asymmetries of information
_Lack of telephone coverage in certain areas, which hinders the proper circulation of information
_Problem of leadership during investigation missions and the ability to work as a team remains difficult in the field
__Absence of formal channels of communication
__Low-risk awareness of zoonotic activities at all the level
__Not enough communication awareness about drugs and One Health intervention with the community