1st Regional Steering Committee of the GF-TADs was held in Bamako, Mali on 28 April 2006. The main focus of the first meeting was to ensure that the ‘Alive Platform’ continue and reinforce its support to animal health and production activities in the continent and play a major role along with the GF-TADS Steering Committee particularly as concerns the control of transboundary animal diseases.

The objective of the Alive Platform is to promote animal health and production in Africa; which requires that 1) OIE, FAO and AU/IBAR have created Regional Animal Health Centres to participate in the implementation of new programmes aimed at improving animal health in Africa and that these centres need to coordinate their activities with the policies and programmes defined by the Executive Committee of Alive; and 3) An essential mandate of the Regional Steering Committee of GF-TADS for Africa is to support activities related to animal health.