• An animal health course or a veterinary medicine course shall only be offered in a registered institution or in a faculty of veterinary medicine.
• A person or institution is not allowed to offer training in Animal Health or Veterinary Medicine unless they are registered by the Board.
• An institution or person is to offer the training courses in Animal Health or Veterinary Medicine using the curriculum approved by the Board.

Apply In-Person

1. An institution desiring to offer courses of training leading to the award of animal health degree, diploma or certificate, or degree of Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine shall after being registered by the relevant body, apply to the Kenya Veterinary Board for approval by submitting an application .
2. This can be done by visiting the KVB Offices and obtaining an Application For Approval for Training Institutions Offering Animal Health Courses – Form 38a to fill and submit
3. The application form can also be down loaded from their link.
4. You will be required to pay the appropriate application fees together with the inspection fees and submit the payment receipt. The amount of fees to be paid can be found under the "Fees" section of this page or at KVB registration fees page.
5. The Kenya Veterinary Board shall, on receipt of the application will carry out inspections of the institution and if satisfied that it conforms to set standards, will approve the institution for the courses proposed.
6. This approval is usually for a period of five years.
7. The Kenya Veterinary Board shall inspect approved training institutions from time to time. The Board shall, in every five years, inspect institutions for purposes of approval.
8. The license may be cancelled at any time when the Board establishes a breach of any provisions of these Regulations.

1. Registration certificate of the institution
2. Academic and qualification certificate of veterinary specialist who will offers the courses
3. Registration document from professional association of veterinary surgeon.
4. Evidence of payment of prescribed fees

Kenya Veterinary Board - Head Office
Off Waiyaki Way,
Veterinary Research Laboratories:
Kabete, Nairobi Kenya.
Telephone: +254-701-581718
Mobile Number: +254-722-305253
E-mail: info@kenyavetboard.or.ke
Website:Kenya Veterinary Board

• An institution desiring to offer courses of training leading to the award of animal health degree, diploma or certificate, or degree of Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine

• Application fees Ksh. 1000
• Fees for inspection of Animal Health Training Institutions
  1. University, Ksh 750,000
  2. Other training institutions , Ksh 500,000

• Application fees can be paid directly to Cooperative Bank, Westlands Branch, Ac no 01141151721300 and banking slip presented to KVB. Include your name in the narrative.
• Gazetted fees for various services ,Fee Summary

• The license is valid for a period of five years.

• Application For Approval for Training Institutions Offering Animal Health Courses

Please attach sample completed documents that would help other people.

• Two Months

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications. 
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites. 	
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver, 
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

Please provide other instructions related to the certificate/documents.
e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.

1. Name of the applicant
2. Name of institution
3. Location institution
4. Town of practice
5. Animal health courses to be provided
6. Who will teach these courses.
7. Copies of registration documents of the institution.

• Training institutions offering animal health course should be approved with the Kenya Veterinary Board in order to carry out their operations in Kenya.
• This helps to curb sub-standard facilities which spring up and lower the standards of animal health courses being offered in Kenya.

• In general the standards for institutions offering animal health training should be as follows:-
• A training institution desiring to offer courses for animal health shall have adequate physical facilities and equipment that meet the following minimum standards-

(a) a lecture theatre for every class;

(b) a laboratory for each major discipline;

(c) seminar rooms and other teaching spaces which shall be adequate in number and size for the instructional purposes intended and the number of students enrolled;

(d) administrative and faculty offices;

(e) a teaching animal hospital with the minimum standards set out in regulation 24 and which has adequate teaching, laboratory, research and clinical equipment for examination and diagnostics of all animals used by the institution;

(f) an animal farm with the full spectrum of animal species to give the students adequate exposure in a ratio of at least two animals per student-admission for cattle, sheep, goat and pigs and one flock of two hundred poultry for ten student-admission and at least one fish farm and one rabbit farm;

(g) a veterinary library; and

(h) access to facilities offering food and accommodation for students in the vicinity.

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

• Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Para-professionals Act Cap 366 VSVP 2011
• Service Charter

• Approval of training animal health institutions.

1. An animal health course or a veterinary medicine course shall be offered in a registered institution or in a faculty of veterinary medicine.
2. An institution desiring to offer courses of training leading to the award of animal health degree, diploma or certificate, or degree of Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine shall after being registered by the relevant body, apply to the Board for approval by submitting an application form in accordance with Form 38(a)
3. A person or institution is not allowed to offer training in Animal Health or Veterinary Medicine unless they are registered by the Board.
4. An institution or person is to offer the training courses in Animal Health or Veterinary Medicine using the curriculum approved by the Board.
5. The Board shall, on receipt of the application will inspect the institution and if satisfied that it conforms to set and upon payment of the requisite fees, will approve the institution for the courses proposed.
6. The Board shall inspect approved training institutions from time to time.
7. The Board shall, in every five years, inspect institutions for purposes of approval.