Dear colleagues, are pleased to invite you to the upcoming online event on the welfare of working equids organised by WOAH Platform on animal welfare for Europe.
The online event will take place on Tuesday, 29 April 2025, between 10:00 – 13:00 (Paris time)
Please follow the link to register for the event:
https://oie.zoom.us/meeting/register/rrhewnf5QLKgXwtGcU7YMA
Please share the invitation with any relevant stakeholders and partners in your country.
Meeting objectives:
Provisional programme
online event on the welfare of working equids
29th April 2025 10:00 – 13:00 (CEST – Brussels time)
| Time | Item | Speaker |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Opening remarks | Mereke Taitubayev (WOAH Sub-Regional Representative for Central Asia) |
| 10:10 – 10:20 | Icebreaker exercise | |
| Introduction | ||
| 10:20 – 10:35 | WOAH Global Animal Welfare Strategy and WOAH Terrestrial Code Chapter 7.12 welfare of working equids | Tomasz Grudnik (WOAH) |
| 10:35 – 10:50 | International Coalition for Working Equids (introduction) | Sandra Zafra (World Horse Welfare) |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Interactive exercise | |
| Tools and knowledge resources | ||
| 11:00 – 11:15 | ICWE’s Working Equid Standards Library of Information (WESLI) | Joe Collins (The Donkey Sanctuary) |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | European Reference Centre for Animal Welfare (EURCAW) Ruminants and Equines: Activities to promote the welfare of working equids | Evangelia N. Sossidou (ELGO-DIMITRA)
Alison Hanlon (UCD Dublin) |
| 11:30 – 11:40 | Interactive exercise | |
| Projects | ||
| 11.40 – 11:55 | World Horse Welfare project: Romanian experience – when each small step matters | Eva Lazar (World Horse Welfare) |
| 11:55 – 12:10 | World Horse Welfare grants | Sebastian Da Silva (World Horse Welfare) |
| 12:10 -12:20 | WOAH Private Public Partnership | Rahul Srivastava (WOAH) |
| 12:20 – 12:35 | Interactive exercise on how to use available tools, resources and funding opportunities | |
| Identification of WOAH members’ needs and future activities. | ||
| 12:35 – 12:40 | Regional Platform on animal welfare for Europe – activities on welfare of working equids | Tomasz Grudnik |
| 12:40 -12:55 | Interactive exercise identification of the needs of WOAH members and future activities of the WOAH Platform, and discussion | |
| 12:55 – 13:00 | Closing remarks | Mereke Taitubayev
(WOAH Sub-Regional Representative for Central Asia) |
| 13:00 | End of the meeting |
