The regional meeting in Entebbe, Uganda was the third roadpmap for the East African region. A total of 44 participants including OIE Delegates and their FMD country focal points were drawn from 11 countries including Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

Also in attendence were the InterGovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) and the Pan-African Veterinary Vaccines Centre (AU-PANVAC) of the African Union; the OIE FMD Reference Centres, i.e. the Botswana Veterinary Institute (BVI) and the FMD World Reference Laboratory at the Pirbright Institute, Deloitte, the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD), FAO, and OIE.