Résumé
In Côte d’Ivoire, the current economic transformations result in significant territorial and environmental changes and are probably linked to an epidemiological transition, leading us to consider jointly issues of health and sustainable developmentAs a contribution to this agenda, scientists and partners of various disciplines from human, animal, plant and environmental health, decided to set up a federative, inclusive and operational network to encourage an integrative and bottom-up One Health approach.Our objectives are (i) bringing together scientists to share and resume their knowledge, experience in their field of health science; (ii) giving them the opportunity to co-construct a common understanding and vision of the “One Health” concept (iii) promoting the One-Health concept and collaborating for its implementation to reach sustainable development in Côte d’Ivoire.Our first action was to organise the “One Health meeting in Côte d’Ivoire” with a diversity of actors sharing their own knowledge about health according to the local practices. This bottom-up approach was resolutely initiated to root our reflexion with the field reality, and to initiate a constructive dialogue between stakeholders and scientists.Further, a workshop made possible to take advantage of these interactions fed with multi-actors, and multidisciplinary experiences. We therefore initiated, in a participatory way, the actual co-construction of future work through a concept note for an integrative project «One Health in Côte d’Ivoire».Moreover, as scientists, we were pushed to question our own practices, and rethink the way of producing knowledge by addressing complex health challenges in an integrated and collaborative way for networking. Our network aims at becoming a proposal force for the national One Health platform, initially created to organize the response against pandemics such as COVID 19 with focus on providing expertise and recommendations for health policy development in Côte d’Ivoire.