 Dear IOM colleagues, we are all accountable to every one of our beneficiaries and we need therefore to make sure that IOM interventions cater to all migrants based on their specific needs, capacities, and vulnerabilities. This is why gender is absolutely crucial to our work and this is why we need to be familiar with some basic concepts. Today I'm very pleased to announce the launching of an online training course which we're calling I Know Gender and Introduction to Gender Equality. The course goals are very straightforward. First of all to build awareness and understanding of gender equality and secondly to enable staff to integrate a gender perspective into our everyday work. The three introductory modules are mandatory. There are additional advanced modules that focus on specific gender-related subject areas. These include, for example, economic empowerment, gender-based violence, emergencies, labor, sexual and reproductive health, and sexual and gender diversity. While the advanced modules are optional, we want to encourage you to complete any modules that relate specifically to your work. The course has been developed and it has been coordinated by UN Women with a lot of input from IOM. So I'm making this training compulsory for all IOM staff because I believe we need to do much more on gender equality and we also need to do it now. The training will take only a couple of hours to complete and it will serve each of us as a critical starting point to enable us to incorporate gender considerations in your work and contribute to gender equality. Let's make IOM more gender sensitive and let's do it now. We owe that to all migrants in the world.