Approach 

All deliberations were done and completed within two days; 18^th -19^th October 2005.  Briefly, day one involved oral country presentations on challenges and opportunities of cassava breeding, and two authoritative talks which high lightened: 1) Role of cassava breeders and the civil society towards food security and income generation in ESA, and 2) Why breed for locally adapted cassava varieties?  These presentations were meant to stimulate thinking to identify key issues that will constitute recommendations and the roadmap for cassava breeding in the region.  Day 2 involved a brainstorming session that culminated in recommendations and production of a draft roadmap for the cassava breeders network. The afternoon of day 2 involved a field visit to the National Cassava Programme of Uganda to appraise, in the main, its breeding trials. 

A total of ten generic issues emerged, and were discussed in detail in three smaller groups.  Thereafter, group presentations were made in the plenary, from which recommendations and roadmap were, respectively made.  Herewith, are proceedings of the deliberations.