Introduction This report describes a pilot training programme on policy processes for veterinary services in Africa targeted at middle to senior level public sector livestock and animal health technocrats. The pilot training programme ran between September 2004 and February 2005 and was a collaborative venture between the Institutional and Policy Support Team (IPST) of the African Union-Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK.