 Land restoration project is a project that works on restoration of degraded lands, mostly for poverty reduction and for improving livelihoods of the people who we are working with. It's aimed at taking the project successes and upscaling what we find as a good project outcome. In the project, one of the things we're aiming to do is to build up the community practice among people involved in land restoration and dry lands, particularly pastoralist communities, using range land management as a tool for rehabilitating and managing their lands. And so we thought this conference would be an opportunity for community members from pastoralist communities around Kenya to come together and share experiences of what they've been doing. So we brought people from communities within our project, but also other pastoralist communities involved in range land management. I think it is an important issue because it brings together range land communities from different parts of Kenya to come together and discuss issues related to the range lands in their specific locations and communities and finding a way of addressing the challenges they are facing on the issues to do with the range lands. Challenges that we have in Kajadu, especially Kajadu Central is land subdivision and again human population growth, human wildlife conflict and persistent droughts and other issues related to the climate change. The most exciting thing that I've seen from here, people from different pastoralist communities, from different range land areas, we have come together, we have interacted, we have changed ideas. Everybody from different communities have different ways of how they conserve their environment and we have learned a good idea from one another. The most important one is the one that I've learned from the communities from the northern part of Kenya, the northern range lands, is that they have zoned their own land. There is a grazing area during dry season and a grazing area for their livestock during rainy season. Well, for sure there are certain good elements that have come up. For example, from our side, the livestock we've found at the livestock department in the Ministry of Agriculture was very dominant. Most of the things we were doing, we involved the Ministry of Agriculture which basically was looking at crop farming rather than pastoralism and livestock. From here, I think we've got a way forward because they represented from the Ministry who came here. We've got ideas about policy, new policies that are in parliament on livestock. We feel we want an input and we feel that we can engage them so that we can activate those ones in the grass roots. That's a plus. One of the ways forward is actually working as a team. Working as insulation, rangeland units cannot support the level. So the aspect is we plan as a team and that planning as a team on a larger rangeland area and we support the level of all the communities but working as individuals is just like creating conflict because the other communities are reluctant. You cannot prevent them from using your resources so the thing is working or cutting as a team will actually enable us to move the rangelands aspects at a higher level. Well, the platforms by which we can engage government and the processes of policy and strategy, that one has come out and I think it is an opportunity that has been placed into our laps by this conference because it will not have been there, for example. And maybe we have even benefited the Ministry because as much as they were still talking about consultations with the community groups represented from the ground, we pointed out certain people among the participants here who are at the centre of community activities who are not involved, who are not aware. That was a gap and we feel that that gap can be filled by the opportunity afforded by this conference. For me, the highlight that stood out from the conference was all of the breakout sessions we had where we brought pastoralists from different regions and they were discussing about the challenges that they face which ended up most of the things that they faced as challenges, they had solutions for these challenges within themselves. So at the end of it all from a listing of 10 challenges, for example, you end up with probably three that they haven't really thought about a solution for. So it really made me think that it's good to bring these people together so that they can keep discussing what they find, what is good for them, what works, what doesn't in a different context. So that really stood out for me from the conference. I had a related one because about the process of how that happened. Because we had people there who were community members and community leaders but we also had people from NGOs and research organisations and so on. And when we split up into different groups at one point we split up so that there was a group made up entirely of community members. And once we from researchers and university people and NGO people left and we were in a different room. The community members really opened up and started sharing experiences with each other. I came and I eavesdropped at the door for a little while and the discussion was very interesting and as Irene was saying they came up with a lot of solutions. While the experience sharing in a conference setting was useful, we also see that there's a lot of opportunity for learning from each other among the community members in our project, for example, on the ground. And so we're planning a learning tour where people from different communities will move around and see some of the range line management interventions that other community members have been trying and learning from each other in the field sharing experiences. The other thing is we're hoping if we have enough budget left in the project by the end of the project is to hold another conference like this but this one will be more specifically targeted at formalizing this and creating this network, this community practice at the national level where pastoralist communities have a platform of their own that they can use to raise issues with political leaders and continue working and collaborating among themselves. So that's what we're hoping to do. A couple of the things that came out of that conference that were highlights and parts of their way forward for me.