~ Mission, Vision, Values and Goals ~

Mission

Facilitate collaboration and sharing of resources to enhance the health, well-being and welfare of pedigree dogs and all dogs worldwide.

Vision

An enduring global collaboration enhancing dog health, well-being and welfare, and human-dog interactions.

Values

• Dog health, well-being and welfare and human-dog interactions contribute to the quality of life for both species.
• The world is a better place because we share it with dogs.
• Dog issues are important around the globe and international sharing and cooperation is needed.

Goals

The general goals of the IPFD are to:

•  Enhance the health, well-being and welfare of dogs and enrich human-dog interactions
• To facilitate sharing of knowledge, information, experience and resources across stakeholders (including, e.g., kennel clubs (KCs), veterinary and other professional organisations, health foundations, and others) to improve the health and well-being of purpose-bred dogs.
• To provide evaluation and interpretation of information to support the actions of stakeholders in dog health, well-being and welfare
• To facilitate specific actions to improve health and well-being of dogs, including, e.g. to design globally relevant breed-specific breeding strategies.
• To bring the dog community closer together through DogWellNet.com (below).

Objectives

The specific objectives of the IPFD shall be to:

• Create an online resource, i.e., DogWellNet.com to:
  • Provide a clearing house of information, documents and digital resources on all material relevant to dog health and well-being (including, e.g., breeding regulations/recommendations, national/international legislation, health information, etc.) including technology for translation to English and other languages.       
  • Promote collaboration among diverse stakeholders interested in dog well-being by increasing the contacts between them, their knowledge of each other’s activities and facilitating cooperation via electronic-communication and other means.
  • Provide evidence- and knowledge-based sharing of information, expertise and resources through evaluation and interpretation by international expert panels.
  • Provide a platform for international collaboration on specific actions, e.g. expert input / validation of tests /procedures and breed-specific strategies to improve health and well-being

• Create a sustainable organization of relevance to and with credibility across a wide variety of stakeholders in the pedigree dog world, as well as with concerns for all dogs, everywhere, by:
  • Developing partnerships between KCs and other stakeholders in order to be globally relevant, inclusive and transparent in terms of objectives and actions.
  • Building a financial base for on-going achievement of the vision, goals and objectives.
  • Building networks of experts and supporting their work through online developments.
  • Building a collective of volunteers to contribute to the work of the organisation.