1. Commonwealth Veterinary Association
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2. Presentation outline CVA background, mission CVA work priorities
Partnerships for delivery
Some key achievements
Going forward

3. Commonwealth Veterinary Association
Founded in 1967
Not for profit association of 55 countries commonwealth countries
Membership - the National Veterinary Associations
Associate member countries / international organisations
A charity – registered in India
6 regions, each with a regional representative to coordinate and country councilors in each member country
NOT ONE SALARIED STAFF MEMBER – Voluntary

4. Our regions UK-Mediterranean Asia Canada/Caribbean West Africa
East, Central and Southern Africa
Australasia/Oceania

5. Mission
‘to promote the veterinary profession within the Commonwealth by encouraging the highest professional standards of education, ethics and service, in order to advance animal health, productivity and welfare to improve the quality of life of all its peoples’.

6. CVA Work Priorities Continuing professional development
On-line CPD modules – collaboration with World Veterinary Association and the World Continuing Education Alliance
Donated veterinary texts program
Donated equipment/instruments
Study fund - short study program in another country
Guest lectureships
Training programs, workshops, conferences
Journal of the CVA 1986 to – chance for young vets to publish.

7. Donated books and equipment
For many years, the CVA has run a voluntary book program
donated veterinary texts and journals are collected, recorded and posted to individual veterinarians and various universities in member countries in Asia, Africa, Oceania and The Caribbean
Also an x-ray machine has been sent to Fiji and Sokoine University in Tanzania
an anaesthetic machine has been sent to the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka
veterinary equipment to Samoa and Cook Islands surgical instruments to The Gambia.

8. Study Fund Usually 2-4 weeks
Funds to cover airfares and some accommodation
Accommodation and travel within country usually sponsored by collaborating vet practices, university, etc.
Dr Renee Orange from Samoa in Australia, 2016

9. On-line CPD
Working with the WCEA and WVA, the CVA education portal has had 7779 members register from 166 different countries with Egypt, the United States of America, United Kingdom, Egypt, India and Australia having the largest membership.
There are 1197 different CPD modules currently available and members have commenced modules on 5863 occasions of which reached completion.
Free for vets from developing countries!

10. Partnerships for Delivery
Cooperation agreements/collaborators
Associate Member Organisations
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
European Commission
OIE Collaborating Centre on Animal Welfare, Teramo, Italy
University of Edinburgh, Murdoch University
The Donkey Sanctuary, UK
WSAVA
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
World Animal Protection
Compassion in World Farming
Mayhew International
Humane Society International
The Brooke, UK

11. Some key achievements CPD, training and collaboration!!!
CVA rabies reference laboratory, Karnataka Vet School, Bangalore
United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals – CVA delivers many (empower women, gender equality, poverty alleviation, etc.)
Act as a catalyst and connect collaborators/people
CVA rabies reference laboratory at Karnataka State, India connecting Crucell Holland monoclonal antibody laboratories, CDC Atlanta, UK animal and plant health agency

12. Practical projects
e.g. CVA supported the training of Maasai women in Kenya on livestock health and production
A project of Kenya Women Veterinary Association

13. Other applied activities
Training of women dairy farmers in Muthanallur village of India
Capacity building for veterinary undergraduate education in Chittagong Veterinary College, Bangladesh
Establishment of goat production unit at women’s group in the village of Chikwanji in Choma, Zambia

14. Other applied activities
National rabies campaign in Uganda, Nigeria
Stray dog problem in the Pacific Islands
Training of Sri Lanka undergraduates/Veterinary professionals in veterinary surgery

15. Planning for the next 50 years
CVA is working to improve communications (new website, monthly e-newsletters, new regional communications officers / young vets, social media).
Securing partnerships and attracting new collaborators.
Improve our funding security.
Next Pan Commonwealth Veterinary Conference in March 2019, Bangalore, India – SEE YOU THERE!

16. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION