VETERINARY EDUCATION - UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI : A SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL EVALUATION

The study examines the background of the animal industry and the state of veterinary medicine in East Africa, assesses veterinary manpower requirements and the prospects for the development of self-sustaining (Africanized) veterinary education institutions. It examines the potential for the development of national veterinary schools. The study offers a positive assessment of USAID"s contribution to the regional veterinary education program at UNVC through its contract with Colorado State University (CSU). Despite some shortcomings in AID and CSU participation in previous projects funding UNVC classroom and laboratory facilities and establishing an undergraduate veterinary program, the author of the study feels it imperative that AID support be continued in the development of a graduate veterinary education faculty with the goal of maximal Africanization of this faculty. Study recommends renewal of CSU contract but makes specific stipulations with regard to CSU involvement in the undergraduate and graduate programs and the procurement of its faculty. The appendices include an assessment of CSU performance at the UNVC.