Poultry and Pig Low-input and Organic production systems' Welfare
2.1 – National practitioners group facilitators training
In the run-up to the first National Practitioner Group (NPG) meeting, the NPG facilitators have harmonised their practices. To do so, in November 2019, all facilitators met in Amsterdam to discuss all aspects of the creation of the national groups, potential bottlenecks and problems and how to tackle them.
The steps implemented to create the NPG and carry out the first meeting were:
- Presentation and workshop about participatory approaches (Kick-off meeting)
- NPG facilitators meeting
- Collection of material to be delivered during the first NPG meeting
- Online meetings with facilitators- defining recruitment guidelines
- Facing the COVID 19 outbreak: discussion of online meeting solutions and rescheduling
- First NPG meetings
- Collection of NPG meeting reports
- Analysis of reports
- One-on-one online meetings with facilitators
- NPGs description
Every NPG facilitator identified key actors to involve. The aim of the NPG is to get input from all steps of the production chain on animal welfare, therefore it is important to involve stakeholders from different backgrounds who can directly or indirectly have an impact on the welfare of pigs and poultry. Depending on the topics that are covered, the composition of the NPG may change or be integrated during the lifespan of the project. Potential participants are large-scale and small-scale producers, vets, retailers, certification bodies, processors, breeding companies, advisors, cooks, researchers and consumers, in some cases policy makers.