 Okay great. Thank you. Now that I'm suitably kitted, we can have ARC's perspective. I have to begin by introducing ARC to those of you who do not know what ARC is about. ARC works as a network. It is the largest network of African economists on the African continent. It works through getting all of these economies networked so that the dissemination and capacity building can be carried out in a much more cost effective way. Now, so why an ARC costs on climate change? I think Alissa has pointed out several things to do with getting as much information out there to economies as is possible and other practitioners on climate change which could lead to a cost effective way of dissemination information. Now, the ARC is a collaborative network. Therefore, getting an online course on climate change enhances the collaboration between the researchers that have similar interests and it maximizes the reach of the center to the rest of the individuals that are spread around a large geographical area. Now, one of the biggest problems we have had in policy or take up of research results by policymakers is that there is a disconnect between the researchers themselves and the policy makers. But by offering this as an online course you get part of the technical officers within government and other institutions participating as a group within this training course and therefore they themselves find it easy to communicate the results to their bosses who then make the final decisions on policy. So it enhances uptake of climate change results within the policy framework. Presently there are no dedicated materials on climate change in Africa and in actual fact in our network we don't have a course on climate change economics or any related course on climate change. Therefore, this has worked to develop material in this particular aspect. Of course there is a need to popularize. I think we heard about this in the morning that there is in some quarters skepticism of the results coming out of climate change work and we need to make sure that we conscientize not only researchers, not only economists, but the wider public about climate change issues and this was found to be the best way to disseminate not only the information but also the ability to conduct that research within the continent. This leads to of course the last point on building up a research agenda for climate change on the continent. Alissa has alluded to technology and technical issues to do with the availability of such communication infrastructure within the continent and I must say our experience is that we had an issue from time to time and I think you heard that Alissa alluded to the fact that we had some DVDs made and so on. We wouldn't need to have done that if we were sure that we can adequately communicate right through the course through online means. But there is an issue about the background of the researchers. They come from varied backgrounds and we needed to find a way in which we could deliver this material to researchers with varied backgrounds. Now follow through they reflect the need to not only go through the course but also to find a way in which we can bring these aspects together in some way. Either through some continuing discussions after the course or through exchanges with the experts on the course. But we know that these aspects are very busy so it's an issue that I will also bring out a little bit later on but it was an obstacle to continuing the research work on climate change. Now time allocation is really to do with these people who participated on the course are busy with other duties during the day so it becomes tricky to allocate as much time as is optimum for the course. Now it would be ideal to find a way in which we can bring all of this material into the ARC's program of work. ARC works through bringing researchers together every six months where senior experts will assist different researchers at different levels to develop their work material. This gives researchers a chance to gain expertise that would otherwise take them much longer to access if they are away from this particular framework. We also have a problem to do with the fact that capacity across Africa particularly in economic policy research is limited. So if one of our participants were to take time off their day duties to work on the course it means that their day job suffers because they don't have enough capacity to replace them whilst they are away. So we found talking to the participants that that became an issue not because their bosses didn't want them to do the course but because there is then a gap that is left when they are busy on the course. Now the financial aspect is really to do with the fact that a lot of these researchers would like to continue working on climate change issues but because there is not enough financial resources to go around, just to give you an example, the follow on call for proposals attracted actually not 120. I know we had caught 120. The preliminary group was 300. We had only enough funds. It's a good thing that Fin is here. We had only enough funds to cover 12 teams but we received 300 applications. So it was a huge task but it also showed that there is a lot of interest. So financing this interest is rather an obstacle to the continuous research in this area. Then of course communication. Africa has three main groups. Portuguese speaking groups, French speaking groups and English speaking groups. And we are only offering the course in English. So there was some kind of self-selection there. So we would like to reach as many researchers as possible and therefore we want to try and figure out how we can include the other language groups. Remoteness is an issue. There are some people who are doing this for the first time. They have never taken a course away from the classroom. So it takes some adjusting too. And some of the participants, not a lot I should admit. If you pointed out that it's almost like you're playing a computer game. So you can say whatever or do whatever you like at any point in time. Now what are the course sessions that we offered? I think Alistair covered most of this. But I wanted to point out the fact that we had the last one week session where these participants were brought together to meet experts. And that whole list of experts that was listed by Alisa were all brought to one facility where the researchers had time to discuss some of the issues that were being raised during the course. So it was very interesting and highly interactive. And I think if there are any of the researchers that participated in that course here, they will tell you that they found it very useful. Most of the topics covered during that week were the economics sections. Now how did we choose the participants? Most of the participants were ARC network members. Who are the ARC network members? In principle, all of the African researchers that had participated in the ARC network work were part of the group that was considered. The backgrounds were varied, as I said before, and these were located in 17 countries across the continent. So we had a real assortment of researchers. Here I list a few issues that I think were important in terms of the assessment of the course. I think the interest was very high. I think we had probably one of the most enthusiastic group within the courses that ARC conducts. Now I need to point out bullet point number four, which is the fact that climate change work through the sessions that we held has been included within ARC's work program. It has already been pointed out, I think, before that either the June or December continent-wide conference will have a plenary on climate change issues. So I think we already have made a mark in trying to get climate change on the agenda. Now, I think I need also to point out that because climate change is not on the cost list of a lot of the institutions on the continent, there has been a need to try and develop a course in climate change. And thankfully, we are a long way down that road. And academics included in the natural resource or environmental economics course have already started using the cost material from this course. Now the success rate, I think two-thirds of the participants completed, and we had a few that did not, and the reasons for dropout were illness, family emergencies, and other work. Remember, I talked about this and that is a big issue. Lastly, some did not complete the coursework and had to complete it in the following sessions. We started out thinking that we will have a group of maximum 25 and only one group. We ended up having to run this course three times because of the interest. So interest is certainly very, very high, and I think there is still need for Fin to give us a little bit more to try and develop capacity within the continent. Our participants using this material, THD, writing a paper, I need to point out here that from Monday we're holding a workshop on climate change and we have really exciting work that's coming out from the 12 projects that came out as a spin-off of this work. And obviously, a lot of presentations have started being given to policymakers and other experts across the continent. Key issues for success, quick response time, requiring discussions, feedback and interaction with experts and engaging in high quality material. That really is something that has caught the eye of the participants. And I want to congratulate the resource persons on this course. It really was excellent. I think I should now stop there except just to point out a few issues that we can do better in the future. Perhaps timing is an issue on both sides, on the expert side because they are all very, very busy people and on the student side. Perhaps we could synchronize it with times that are not busy for the participants and also the resource persons. Cost material, cost detail. Sometimes it's very difficult because we have participation from across the continent. What might be important in Mozambique might not be very important in Sierra Leone. So we need to think through how we deal with the detail. Then assessment, of course, there is a big differentiation between courts and there is a need to be careful whether or not we can differentiate the assessments. Now follow-up activities. This is where I need to say one thing. We need more funds for research. And we also need more of the conscientization of not only policy makers but the society across the sub-region of the importance of this. Because we see a phenomenon that needs addressing across the sub-region. I will stop there and think about ways in which to take a similar effort further down the road and see whether we can continue building the capacity for research. Thank you.