 Hello, my name is Isabelle Bartonbeck. I'm an economist. I'm the program leader of livelihoods, gender and impact at Erie, based in in Nairobi. I want to tell you a bit more about how gender has been integrated in the nice-to-can-fish CRP from the start until now, which is we are about to hopefully start the phase two of the CRP work. When the nice-to-can-fish proposal was developed, I think we were really lucky in getting it getting gender well integrated into the proposal from day one. You know, thanks to Mama Juki, who was at that time a gender scientist at Erie, she really I believe put the basis into that proposal and as well as the work started, the integration started quite successfully and even though we know staff changes and things happen, you know we were able to base our work on a well-grounded gender strategy. But I believe all the four centers in this CRP are able to understand and are implementing and looking at how we move forward from output to outcomes. When maybe we got more careful about ensuring that we spend sufficiently quality money on gender, the gender initiative took place and initiated by the nice-to-can-fish management and then KIT was joined us in a way and this great adventure continued with the KIT colleagues and through an open call that but clearly said that not only you will be able to tap into new funding to integrate gender in your work but as well you will get expertise, support through a coaching process. We got really good feedback, overwhelming positive feedback, maybe too much in a way because we had 20 or so positive proposals and therefore when we had to make actually decisions on which one to take on and looking at you know being fair in terms of criteria, looking at having all the flagships represented, all the value chains represented, at least the one who applied obviously Fiorpia, Tanzania, Nicaragua and all of us and as well the different centers obviously then the coaching process really took took place and as we are here this week writing some of us, the results of some of this coach project I think we really see the way how gender has you know the interest in integrating gender in our work has really helped the different center to come together around this special topic that actually we can all relate to whether I believe economists like me working on value chains or breeders, geneticists, field specialists, we are actually all working with human subjects, men and women and therefore gender does bring us together and as we are now working on the proposal for the second phase of the CRP we actually see really genuine interest in by all the flagships I would say all the technical teams as well in ensuring that gender is integrated from the beginning of their work you know if I develop this vaccine you know what does it mean for men and women for example to you know assessment and things like that so I believe the work we've started with what you're currently doing on gender in the livestock and fish CRP I believe he has he will really have strong basis for future work in the second phase of the CRP so the gender initiative may evolve depending as well on all the different centers you know sees gender and how they want to to to source it in terms of technical expertise but I think the spirit of working collaboratively and you know looking at external expertise as well outside the CG we've seen the value of that and you know I believe this is a value of most of my colleagues have seen it so in a way or another I think we will continue these collaborations somehow and I look forward to continuing working with my colleagues from all the centers on that great adventure