The meeting in Dar Es Salaam was the second FMD SADC Roadmap meeting held in the region, following the first one held in 2012. It was hosted by the Government of the Republic of Tanzania, and organized, under the umbrella of the FAO/OIE Global Framework for the progressive control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs), by its FMD Working Group, with the technical support from European Commission for Control of FMD (EuFMD). Participants from SADC Member states included Chief Veterinary Officers (CVOs) and laboratory and epidemiology experts engaged in FMD control programmes, ECTAD-Tanzania, RSU-SADC, the OIE Sub-Regional Representative, the FAO office in Tanzania, the Botswana Vaccine Institute and the OIE/FAO Reference Laboratory (WRL) of Pirbright.