It is a privilege to announce that the featured GARC Data Platform user for March 2025 is Thailand-based Soi Dog Foundation. As an organization that runs one of the largest Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return (CNVR) programs globally, comprehensive real-time programmatic data is paramount. Since 2023, the Global Alliance for Rabies Control has been supporting Soi Dog Foundation with the use of the GARC Data Platform to plan and coordinate their sterilization and vaccination campaigns across one third of the entire country.
As part of our ongoing efforts to highlight the stakeholders that are leading rabies elimination efforts at the community level, we have started a new initiative to promote the work of the organizations using the GARC Data Platform around the world. Read more about this initiative and our first three featured Platform users.
The featured GARC Data Platform user for February is Mara North Conservancy Rabies Project (MNC Rabies Project), who are also a recognized Rabies Center of Excellence in Kenya. MNC Rabies Project uses multiple GARC Data Tools to capture, analyze and plan coordinated education and MDV activities in the Narok and Bomet Counties of Kenya.
Our first featured GARC Data Platform user for 2025 is Neighbourhood Woof from India. Neighbourhood Woof has been using the Vaccination and Sterilization Tracker (VST) and Bite Case Tracker (BCT) tools to collect and visualize their rabies-related data in the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India over the course of the last 12 months.
Our first ever featured GARC Data Platform user is the Directorate of Veterinary Services (DVS) in Namibia who has been using the Rabies Vaccination Tracker (RVT), Education Initiative Tracker (EIT) and Rabies Case Surveillance (RCS) tools to collect and visualize their rabies-related data in the Northern Communal Areas of Namibia since 2018.