As part of the MOBIP Project, Uganda Agribusiness Alliance is establishing and serving as Secretariat to a National Beef Platform to encourage and enable the communication and cooperation amongst diverse stakeholders necessary for successful coordinated action to address the challenges facing the commercial beef meat value chain. UAA will also contribute to the interventions to these challenges through the MOBIP Project.

Vision of the National Beef Platform: A profitable, inclusive and sustainable commercial beef meat sector in Uganda.

Mission of the National Beef Platform: To coordinate action by all beef meat sector stakeholders by providing a legitimate national representative body for the whole value chain in the beef meat industry which is private sector led and public sector enabled, subject to stakeholder consensus, and a safe space actively tackling the root causes limiting the performance, the sustainability and consequent profitability of the beef meat sector in Uganda.

Objectives of the National Beef Platform:

1. To promote information exchange, advocacy and knowledge acquisition, sharing and dialogue.
2. To ensure proper information and orientation for effective private sector engagement.
3. To provide direct benefit to the private sector in order to increase profitability and sustainability, including feedback of best practices, marketing, networking, and increased coherence among stakeholders
4. Dissemination of information and best practices to farmers and other value chain actors

Membership of the National Beef Platform: Membership is composed of key actors from all stakeholder segments of the commercial beef meat value chain including producers and producer groups, input/feed providers, processors, traders and transporters, providers of laboratory/testing services, wholesale and retail buyers, researchers, representatives from MOBIP and from MAAIF Local Government including District Veterinary Officers from both Disease Control Zone 1 and Disease Control Zone 2. Over 70% of Platform members are from the private sector, and 30% are women.

Activities of the National Platform include:

Monitoring the development needs of the national commercial beef value chain in Uganda, including conducting a baseline assessment and yearly update assessments | On advocacy for prioritized policy: sharing information, acquiring knowledge, engaging in dialogue, and participating cooperatively in advocacy | Receiving and sharing information on best practices, innovations, technologies and schemes to advance beef production and marketing | Validating the MOBIP commercial beef investment study and developing an implementation plan for the investment study.

In order to address the challenges to the development of the commercial beef meat value chain through the MOBIP Project, multi-stakeholder platforms at the levels of Disease Control Zones 1 and 2 as well as at the national level will be developed to encourage this coordinated and harmonized action.

Vision of the Zonal Beef Platforms: A profitable, inclusive and sustainable commercial beef meat sector in the respective Zone and in Uganda.

Mission of the Zonal Beef Platforms: To coordinate action by all beef meat sector stakeholders in their respective multi-district Disease Control Zones by providing a legitimate zonal representative body for the whole value chain in the beef/meat industry in that zone which is private sector led and public sector enabled, subject to stakeholder consensus, and a safe space actively tackling the root causes limiting the performance, the sustainability and consequent profitability of the meat sector in the zone and in Uganda.

Objectives of the Zonal Beef Platforms:

1. To promote information exchange, advocacy and knowledge acquisition, sharing and dialogue.
2. To ensure proper orientation for effective private sector engagement.
3. To provide direct benefit to the private sector including feedback of best practices, and networking and increased coherence among stakeholders.
4. Disseminate to farmers and other value chain actors the best practices