 My name is Wole. I am working for ICARDA, being an ATADIS in Ethiopia. My profession is Rural Development, but currently I am working at a position for a secondary expert. ICARDA is for Vetting, Livestock and Fee Research Program in Sapsara. In Ethiopia we work particularly on small, ruminant value chain development. I work with a technical research team working on improving and developing the value chain of small ruminant. My role is actually to make sure that gender is integrated, make sure that research activities of technical researchers are gender-responsive at designing, intervention and evaluation steps. Well, one of my biggest challenges that I face so far while working with senior technical scientists is that usually at designing stage, technical researchers appreciate the integration of gender and my contribution is also appreciated. But when it comes to field activities, because of the extra time and the cost, I think as a result of taking into consideration the gender aspects of the research and field activities, they tend to put aside some aspects of the gender work. I intend to get done. The reason is actually, as I said, for example, let me say the case. In one of research projects which intends to improve the healthy condition of small ruminant, in certain communities of, rural communities of Ethiopia, we designed the research process by sensitizing, by integrating gender into the tools and the protocols. But when we get to the field and the actual field implementation, we, based on the protocol, we need to have separate group discussions. We need to separate the different household members, based on sex, age and the different categories, different categories. In the first phase of, well, we done, based on the protocol, but at some stage in the field process, the technical researchers felt that this process had extra time and the cost as a result of the gender integration. And they suggested to get rid of some of the processes by mixing up the groups, so that they can have relatively the same information we have generated through having different groups. But at the end, we observed that the information we generated is different and we face the difficulty of making cross-comparisons. However, you know, the technical researchers don't appreciate some information which the social scientists actually appreciate. That is some of the challenges I've faced so far. To have a win-win situation, I think the senior social scientists, I'm a junior social scientist, actually. And the senior social scientists are expected to contribute to help the senior technical scientists in understanding, appreciating the social aspect of their research activities. So that they can appreciate whatever information, whatever additions we bring into their work. So that at the end, the result is actually for all of us, the objective is actually to help the poor to improve their livelihood situations by leaving out the social aspect. You can't have a holistic development only by helping the communities through the biological aspect of their research work. So I think the senior social scientists have to help the senior technical scientists in understanding and appreciating the social aspect of their work so that they can appreciate and hear our voices.