• Acting as an institution to qualify members of the veterinary profession as specialists in small ruminant health management by establishing and defining the standard of qualification based on evidence-based medicine (EBM).
• Developing graduate teaching programmes in small ruminant health management. Developing and supervising EBM continuing education programmes for veterinarians interested in small ruminant health management.
• Encouraging its members to pursue original scientific investigations and to contribute to the relevant literature.
• Defining and describing the speciality discipline of small ruminant health management.
• Supervising the professional activities of its members and ensuring that such professional activities are guided by EBM.
• Promoting collaboration with national veterinary associations, farmers associations, government institutions and international agencies.

This veterinary speciality refers to the following:

• Husbandry, internal medicine, obstetrics and reproduction, surgery, as applied to epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapy and control of diseases of small ruminants (sheep, goats).
• Individual patients or flocks/herds.
• Quality and safety of products from small ruminant.
• Control of transmitting zoonoses.