Competency-based education (CBE) is a system-wide approach in which educators and students work towards mastering specific core skills within a focus area of a given discipline. The CBE method requires a shift from the traditional content-based instruction and assessment to a more flexible and interactive, capacity-based learning that includes assessment strategies.

Over the past decade, just six percent of USAID assistance was awarded to locallybased partners. Though often considered risky, challenging, and time consuming, the value of partnering directly with locally-based organizations and institutions, those on the frontlines of their own development challenges, can far surpass these administrative obstacles and reap major rewards.

To prepare a skilled and competent workforce, we must develop and disseminate knowledge about pressing issues in the One Health framework. Though development of skills for collaboration and partnerships is essential for disseminating and translating One Health knowledge, it is difficult to accomplish because of the wide range of schedules and differing priorities of the various professionals and disciplines that the One Health framework demands.