Director of Finance and Corporate Services at GALVmed - Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
animal health products * livestock * partnership * food security * sustainability * Africa * South AsiaMillions of people in Developing countries rely on livestock to pay for their daily needs. GALVmed is working with partners to make livestock health products available, accessible and affordable to people living in poverty.What is GALVmed?• A Livestock health Product development & adoption Partnership organisation• A not-for-profit Public-Private Partnership – registered charity• Pro-poor focused: working with key partners to make a sustainable difference in access to animal health products for small-scale livestock producers• Currently supported by the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with projects having been funded by the European Commission & BBSRC.What does GALVmed do?We make available and facilitate adoption of livestock health products by small-scale livestock producers. We do this by:• Intervention in all necessary links of the value chain including:• Product development, registration, manufacture, distribution, commercialisation and delivery to the end user• Building capacity (upstream and downstream)• Market development and adoption by the creation of sustainable value chains• Understanding and influencing policy to enable the above• Advocating for livestock as a route out of povertyPurpose: Protecting Livestock – Improving Human LivesMission: To make a real difference to the livelihoods of small-scale livestock producers by facilitating provision of animal health tools, within a sustainable economic frameworkVision: Better livestock health contributing to a transformational improvement in the livelihoods of small-scale livestock producers