FEI PRESS RELEASE

15 July 2010

The Development Task Force, in its first meeting on 6 and 7 July, agreed that the FEI's development role should be to transform and create a lasting impact on the community by promoting the traditional values of horse sport through inclusive growth.

The Task Force began its work by starting to identify and consider the critical constraints that constitute barriers to the development of equestrian sport worldwide, from a regional perspective as well as a sporting perspective.

Identifying the obstacles and finding solutions that can be applied effectively will form the main body of work for the Task Force in the coming weeks as it works on the formation of the FEI's Development Roadmap for approval at the General Assembly in Chinese Taipei at the beginning of November.

Priorities and areas discussed by the Development Task Force included:

Ensuring sustainable funding coupled with locally adapted accountable governance solutions to support the establishment and evolution of national sport structures;
Defining the parameters required to develop the FEI Disciplines regionally, and raising the sport's visibility;
Growing and maintaining interest in the sport among youth and the wider public;
The use of educational tools and improving the quality of those tools.

The Development Task Force also examined a number of developmental structures from other International Federations and analysed the FEI's Developmental history.



The FEI Development Task Force, which was formed at the end of May, is chaired by HRH Princess Haya, FEI President. The members of the Task Force are:
Dmitry Titov (RUS), President of the Russian Equestrian Federation; Ho Nai Yue (SIN), President of the Asian Equestrian Federation; Betty Wates, Vice President of the Jamaican Equestrian Federation; Pablo Mayorga (ARG), FEI Executive Board member; Kim Gueho (MRI), Secretary General of the Mauritius Equestrian Federation; Manoj Jalan (IND), member of the Indian National Sports Development Fund and Ludger Beerbaum (GER), sport representative. Also present at last week’s meeting were Alex McLin, FEI Secretary General, and Jacqueline Braissant, Director Coaching Department.