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​Active Committees

Scientific & Regional Conferences Committee
Duties: Assist with organizing, planning, and implementing IGA regional meetings. Additionally, the Scientific Committee is responsible for working with the ICG host country Scientific Committee to recruit invited speakers, finalize the scientific program schedule, review, and select oral abstract presentations, and review and select poster award nominations.
Chair: Anastasio Argüello
Vice chair: 
Carina Visser
Members: Paula Menzies, Herve Hoste, ​Chryss Onwuka, Yingjie Zhang, ​Yan Landau,  Arthur Goetsch,  Sándor Kukovics, Felipe Torres-Acosta, 
Country Representatives & Regional Directors Management Committee
Duties: The CR & RD Committee is responsible for reviewing nominations, maintaining communication, and reporting, and encouraging engagement in IGA activities. Committee members will also assist RDs and CRs with organizing IGA meetings and developing IGA co-sponsorship of goat related activities to raise IGA’s profile.
Chair: Yoko Tsukahara
Members:
Jean-Marie Luginbuhl, Beth Miller​, Yingjie Zhang, Juan Felipe Torres-Acosta, Héctor Mario Andrade-Montemayor, ​Davinia Sánchez 
Strategic Planning Committee
Duties: 
The Strategic Planning Committee is responsible for creating a current list of strategic priorities to implement to achieve the IGA mission, as well as monitoring, updating, and reporting the progress of the strategic plan.
Chair: Davinia Sánchez
Members: 
Héctor Andrade-Montemayor, and Paula Menzies
Communications Committee
Duties: The Communication Committee is responsible for identifying articles or other materials that can be shared with members and the public, and offering feedback and suggestions to improve the website, blog, Facebook page, and Newsletter.
Chair: 
Paula Menzies
Members: Yoko Tsukahara, Carina Visser, Davinia Sánchez, Chryss Onwuka, and Juan Felipe Torres-Acosta
Coordination Committee
Duties: to improve IGA's internal communication this committee will be a hub between the Chairs of the other committees, facilitating the work and looking for ways to support each other's efforts. 
Chair: Carina Visser
​Members: Carina Visser
, Paula Menzies, Yoko Tsukahara, and Davinia Sánchez ​

Inactive Committees

IGA Consulting Group Management Committee (IGA-CGMC)
Duties:  The IGA-CGMC will manage the Goat Consulting Group. The committee will consist of at least one expert each for dairy, meat and mohair production systems and value chains, development planning, environmental integration and policy formulation.  IGA-CGMC will select the right consultant for each position.  When a request is received, the Committee will identify potential candidates, interview references and other experts in the field, and read publications if needed.  They will help the IGA Executive Director maintain and update the Consultant Pool Database.
The committee will search for assist with identifying potential clients, and advertise IGA’s availability and expertise.
Chair: Jean-Paul Dubeuf
Members: Dilip Bhandari​, Juan Capote, Carol Delaney, Jun Luo, Beth Miller, Yingjie Zhang

Membership Committee
Duties: The Membership Committee is responsible for working with the IGA Executive Director to increase individual memberships and develop guidelines and a strategy for institutional membership. They will help identify new organizations that could be asked to join IGA. 
Chair: 
Members: 
Projects Committee
Members: Dilip, Davinia, Juan, and Lucia
13th ICG Small Group Committee
Duties: The 13th ICG Small Group Committee will assist the country organizers with planning, publicity, publication of a special issue of SRR, and coordinate with the IGA Science Committee to ensure presentations are of the highest quality. 
Chair: Carina Visser
Members: Sándor Kukovics, Lucia Sepe, Anastasio Argüello, and Paula Menzies with assistance from Christian De Vries and Noemí Castro
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  • News & Info
    • Blog
    • Mission-Vision
    • Newsletters >
      • Current Newsletter
    • SRR Journal >
      • SRR Editorial Board
      • SRR reports
    • Repository >
      • Books, Manuals, etc
      • Financial Information
      • IGA Documents >
        • Brochures and more
        • History of IGA
        • Member Lists
        • Scaling-Up Successful Practices
      • Photo Gallery
      • Proceedings
      • Videos >
        • Videos en español
        • conference videos
  • Conferences
    • International Conferences >
      • 13th ICG, virtual >
        • 13th ICG documents
      • 12th ICG, Antalya, Turkey
      • 11th ICG, Las Palmas, Spain
      • 10th ICG, Recife, Brazil
      • 9th ICG, Queretaro, Mexico
      • 8th ICG, Pretoria, South Africa
      • 7th ICG, Tours, France
    • Regional Conferences >
      • 2019 ARCG, Chitwan, Nepal
      • 2018 ARCG, Jaipur, India
      • 2017 World Goat Day, Iran
      • 2014 European Regional Conference on Goats
      • 2013 IGA Regional Conference, Norway
      • 2007 IGA Regional Conference, Italy
      • 2003 IGA Regional Conference, Canary Islands
    • Conference Planning
  • Network
    • Board of Directors >
      • Board of Director documents >
        • voting
      • 2017 Chinese Natl Sheep and Goat Conf
    • Regional Directors >
      • More About IGA RDs
      • Roles of RDs
    • Country Representatives >
      • More About IGA CRs
      • Roles of CRs
    • Languages >
      • IGA in Armenian
      • IGA in Czech
      • IGA auf Deutsch
      • La IGA en Español >
        • IGA Facebook - Español
        • articulos en español
      • L'IGA en Français
      • IGA in Hungarian
      • L' IGA in Italiano >
        • Lettera dal Presidente
        • Un po' di storia
        • Il Consiglio direttivo
        • Le Conferenze IGA
      • IGA in 日本語
      • IGA in Mandarin
      • IGA in Polish
      • A IGA em Portugues
      • IGA in Romanian
      • IGA in Slovak
      • IGA in Swahili
      • IGA in Turkish
    • Active Committees
    • Advisory Board
    • Stakeholders >
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