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Title Goes Here Global Partnership Program: Mitigating Biological Threats

5 September 2016

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• GPP is Canada’s contribution to the Global Partnership Against

the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction;

• More than C$1.2 billion spent on WMD threat reduction

programming since 2002

• Biological Security as a collective Priority (since 2010)

Strengthening Global Biological Security

• Secure and account for materials that represent biological proliferation threats.
• Develop and maintain appropriate and effective measures to prevent, prepare

for and respond to the deliberate misuse of biological agents.

• Strengthen global networks to rapidly identify, confirm and respond

to deliberate biological attacks.

• Reinforce and strengthen biological non-proliferation principles, practices and

instruments.

• Reduce proliferation risks through the advancement and promotion of safe and

responsible conduct in biological sciences.

Global Partnership Program

WMD Threat Reduction Priorities

Nuclear and Radiological Security

• 1. Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials
• 2. Secure Transport of Nuclear Materials
• 3. Radioactive Security
• 4. Prevention of Illicit Nuclear Trafficking
• 5. Material Management
• 6. Verification and Compliance

Biological Security

• 1. Secure and account for biological pathogens
• 2. Prevent deliberate biological attacks
• 3. Strengthen disease surveillance and

detection

• 4. Reinforce biological nonproliferation

instruments

• 5. Safe and responsible conduct in the

biological sciences

Implementing UNSCR 1540

• 1. Support the implementation of UNSCR1540
• 2. Provide legislative assistance
• 3. Provide CBRN training and equipment
• 4. Support export controls and border security

related to WMDs

Chemical Weapons Destruction

• 1. Assisting in CWD activities in Syria and

Libya

• 2. Prepared to assist with destruction of newly

declared CW stockpiles

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Biological Security

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• Support partners to develop and

implement:

 Security and safety in labs  Upgraded laboratory infrastructure  Bio-risk management systems  Standards &Legislation  Pathogen controls

• Biological and Toxin Weapons

Convention (BTWC)

• Article III, IV , VII & X
• Strengthen export and border controls
• Strengthen disease surveillance and

detection networks

• Develop robust prevention a& first-response

capabilities

• Support non-proliferation,

arms control and disarmament (NACD) fora

• Broaden international networks

and health-security partnership

• Epidemic intelligence gathering
• Develop new tools

Biological Non-Proliferation

• Accountability and responsibility

among biological scientists

• Biosecurity and biosafety

training centers

• Support for Biosafety

Associations

Bioethics and Responsible Conduct Biosecurity Biosafety & Bio-containment Surveillance, Detection and Response

Health/Security Interface

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Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) Prevent 3: Biosafety & Biosecurity Detect 1: National Laboratory Systems Detect2/3: Real-Time Surveillance Respond 2: Deliberate Use

Strengthened public health and response for natural outbreaks = Strengthened preparedness for deliberate outbreak

Enhanced global biological security requires increased collaboration between the security and health sectors at the “health-security interface”, where respective interests & responsibilities coincide.

• GPP has partnered with BTWC ISU since 2010 to support efforts to

strengthen the Convention

• Recently concluded a new US$275,000 contribution to the ISU in support
• f the 8th BTWC RevCon

– international conference co-sponsored with the Government of China in Wuxi, China from 5-7 September – sponsorship with the EU of regional workshops in Brazil (for Latin America) and Addis Ababa (for Africa) in September 2016 to promote comprehensive and cross-regional dialogue on issues to be considered at the 8th Review Conference – promotion and dissemination of two resource books ~ “Preventing Biological Threats: What You Can Do” and “Biological Security Education Handbook: Power of Team-Based Learning ~ produced by the University of Bradford with funding from GPP and UK MoD – support for the BTWC Sponsorship Programme – support for the BTWC Implementation Support Unit (ISU) to conduct critical outreach and to participate, inter alia, in meetings of the Global Partnership and the GHSA

Support for BTWC

Extensive support provided around the world to strengthen export controls and related national/regional awareness & capabilities. Current efforts include:

• $5.9M to strengthen export controls and border security in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Wilton Park conference “Strengthening Strategic Trade Controls in the Caribbean:

Preventing WMD Proliferation and Safeguarding Borders” (Barbados, 4-6 October 2016)

• $550K (US) for implementation of the Security and trade Efficiency Platform Program (STEP)

Program at priority ports in Jamaica

• Co-sponsorship with US of Global Export Control Workshop (Prague, November 2016)
• ~$6.5M for Container Control Program (Joint WCO and UNODC initiative )

– AIM: To establish dedicated Port / Container Control Units fully trained and equipped to undertake container profiling and interdict illicit trade, including chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) and dual-use materials. – GPP supporting CCP expansion in South-East Asia and Caucasus expressly to enhance CBRN interdiction capabilities

Article III

Kananaskis Principles (2002)

• 5. effective border controls, law enforcement efforts and international cooperation to detect, deter

and interdict in cases of illicit trafficking in such items

• 6. effective national export and transshipment controls over items on multilateral export control list

… provide assistance to states lacking … experience and/or resources to develop their export and transshipment control systems in this regard.

Article IV: GPP has been working with partner countries for more than a decade to strengthen national implementation of the BTWC:

• Collaboration with VERTIC to assist member countries to develop national legislation and

regulations to ensure full and effective implementation of the Convention

• New partnership with Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA)
• Importance of multi-sectoral engagement, and ensuring that key line ministries (e.g. health,

and agriculture) have all necessary measures in place

• Biosafety & Biosecurity (GP Deliverable #1)
• Global Health Security Agenda (Action Package “Prevent 3”)
• Collaboration with WHO, OIE, FAO & INTERPOL

Article VII:

• Bilateral assistance to partner countries in conflict areas to enhance capabilities to prevent,

detect and respond to biological attacks

• Support for United Nations Secretary General’s Mechanism (UNSGM)

Article IV & VII

Article X ~ Programming in Africa

$8M for Ebola support in West Africa

• Security Dimensions of Ebola outbreak

Security and capacity-building upgrades at vulnerable biological laboratories in Nigeria ($2.3M) and Ghana ($4.4M)

• Strengthening indigenous capacities to detect, diagnose and respond to
• utbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases;
• Robust, lower-tech and lower-maintenance solutions to ensure long-term

sustainability in resource-limited environments.

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Article X ~ Programming in the Americas

Strengthening capacities in the Americas to detect, diagnose and respond to a bioterror attack or incident before it can spread and threaten Canada (high-traffic area)

• Provision of modular BSL3 laboratory to Caribbean Public Health Agency

(CARPHA) ($2.5M);

• Provision of molecular diagnostics field kits and IATA-certified biohazard

shipping containers to Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) ($1M);

• High-level training on interagency preparedness and response plans provided

through OAS to Mexico, Trinidad & Tobago, Bahamas, Panama, Colombia ($900k)

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Article X ~ Programming in the Middle East

$32M to strengthen Jordanian capacities to detect, identify and respond to a CBRN attack or incident originating in Syria

• Chemical and biological personal protective equipment and

chemical/biological weapons detection technology for the Jordanian Armed Forces and Civil Defence ministries ($10M);

• Establishment of a regional biological risk-management training centre at the

Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in Irbid. ($1.1M);

• Provision or Mobile Biological Laboratory to JAF Royal Medical Services and of

a Modular BSL3 Lab to MoH

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$1M to assist to assist Iraq to Counter Threats of Chemical and Biological Weapons use by ISIL

Article X ~ Programming in Asia

• $8M to Mitigate Biological Threats
• Support to strengthen Strengthening laboratory capacity for Emerging and

Dangerous Pathogens in ASEAN region

• support laboratory readiness and response of ASEAN countries for rapid

detection and containment of outbreaks of emerging and dangerous pathogens, novel and acute endemic threats. Implemented by ASEAN Plus 3 Lab Network (APL) and the World Health Organization (WHO)

• Contribution to Strengthening Surveillance through “BioDiaspora”
• building regional capacity in big data predictive analytics that strengthens

ASEAN’s epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response capabilities to naturally occurring or man-made biological threats.

• Stronger Networks
• Engagement between the Asia Partnership on Emerging Infectious Disease

Research (APEIR), the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance network (MBDS) and ASEAN

• Strengthened security and multi-sectoral collaboration

Article X

• All members of the Global

Partnership contribute to Article X implementation

• GP prepared and submitted an Article

X compendium at the 2015 MSP and will be preparing a similar paper in advance of the 8th BTWC RevCon

• 77 projects being implemented
• r funded by 13 GP partners

(i.e. Canada, Denmark, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States)