The vision is to help countries in the control of diseases by strengthening their Veterinary Services.

The initiative has six strategic lines of action:

1. Establish a regional strategy to prevent, control and / or eradicate transboundary animal diseases including zoonoses, using, among other tools, coordinated action with existing Regional and International Organizations.
2. Increase awareness of the role of national Veterinary Services. This means reaching the decision levels and convincingly demonstrating, better than in the past, how the effectiveness of the national Veterinary Service facilitates or limits trade, growth, economic prosperity and trust between countries.
3. Establish a shared commitment of national Veterinary Services with all stakeholders. This commitment is related to a joint work of epidemiological surveillance, transparency in health notification to achieve an adequate level of protection of animal and public health to achieve a secure trade.
4. Improve the capacity of the Veterinary Services. This includes, among others, making improvements and investments in human resources, technical training, sources of financing, stability of policies and programs, funds for contingencies, technical independence, improving fundamental competencies in the updating of national legislations, diagnostic capacity, the response to emergencies, quarantine, inspection, emerging issues, risk analysis and technical innovation.
5. Strengthen interaction with the private sector. This includes making improvements in decisive areas such as, among others, communication, information, official representation, accreditation and responsiveness to new opportunities and challenges.
6. Ensure adequate application and use of international standards for a secure trade based on scientific knowledge, reducing the spread of potential pathogens is possible with the application of concepts such as regionalization / zoning, compartmentalization and trade of products based in the irrigations.

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