FEI Development Task Force Agrees on Roadmap

The Development Task Force, in its first meeting on July 6th and 7th, 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.