The ECAISA Project is part of the Memorandum of Understanding within the Twinning Agreement (1999, 2004) between Lower Saxony and the Eastern Cape.
The ECAISA Pilot Project main partners
- Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Consumer Protection and Regional Development
(DE: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft, Verbraucherschutz und Landesentwicklung) - Animal Diseases Surveillance Unit (ADSU), Ministry of Agriculture of the Eastern Cape
- Institute of Biometry, Epidemiology and Information Processing, University of Veterinary Medicine of Hanover
(DE: Institut für Biometrie, Epidmiologie und Informationsverarbeitung - Stiftung Tierärtliche Hochschule Hannover)

Other ECAISA partners
Additionally, two other partners have joined with the objective of supporting the Provincial Animal Census Project to be developed based on the Pilot Census Project results. These are:
- Department of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine of Hanover
(DE: Institut für Virologie - Stiftung Tierärtliche Hochschule Hannover) - Department of Statistics, Ministry of Finance. Eastern Cape.
