CONTEXT AND MOTIVATIONS
The international context is responsible for a high demand in veterinary expertise these very last years:
- the increasing number of sanitary crises of great extent, especially major epizootics or zoonosis such as avian influenza, has brought into the world’s attention the need for an increased control of the zoo-medical constraints by the different countries, and for an improvement on the world sanitary governance.
- animals and animal products exchanges' globalization and European Union enlargment force governments to conform their services and products to international standards ("hygiene package" , animal welfare) and to watch over their agricultural productions' competitiveness.
Taking into account the importance of all these stakes, as far as public health and economy are concerned, the international community mobilizes itself, in particular donators such as the World Bank and the European Commission. Today, a majority of countries, particularly those of the South, are engaged in an active plan aiming at reinforcing their veterinarian services, being now recognized as a World Public Property on the World Organization for Animal Health's (OIE) initiative.
Addressing this situation, France has proved the relevance of its sanitary system based on both scientific and technical competences, and on mechanisms that associate the whole of the public and private actors concerned: stockbreeders, operators of the food chain, veterinarian experts, administration, and research and diagnosis laboratories, etc.
France Vétérinaire International (FVI) Public Interest Group thus merged from the search for a better adequacy between a sustained international demand, and a rich and diversified French offer of co-operation, and is in charge of federating, coordinating and promoting this offer.
MISSIONS
FVI aims to coordinate the French offer of training and technical veterinarian assistance, in the main following fields: food safety, animal health, capacity building of the veterinary profession and, generally speaking, livestock development.
FVI's roles link intimately with the general orientations of the French international cooperation policy, and within the framework of French sanitary system's promotion, based on a dynamic partnership between public services and private sector.
More specifically, FVI main missions are:
- to collect and circulate within its members tenders and calls relating to veterinary services concerning vet administration, teaching and research, and to support the members, individually or collectively, on their elaboration of coherent and concerted answers;
- to support implementation through members, individually or collectively, of training activities: reception of trainees, specific modules of training;
- to lead promotional actions on the educational offer and expertise capacities of its members;
- to provide diversified services to the members of the association: documentation, support on tenders answering, training activities;
- to develop partnerships with the main actors of the veterinary cooperation.