 Usually when a crisis particularly a disaster happens the people who are responsible for firstly saving lives but also protecting assets are women so that is the big challenge in front of us but it's a huge opportunity and I think that presents a challenge particularly the civilian capability but also the military capability as well. The focus is so much on protecting women as opposed to what we've been striving for over a longer period of time even is empowering women to protect themselves empowering women to make them part of the mediation and the negotiations so that they're at the table and they have a stake and have a voice. If you start with the issue of gender there are certain issues that that need to be front and foremost as far as what impact does this situation have on women how vulnerable are women in this crisis what capabilities do women have to respond to the crisis how are women's voices being heard in the response to crisis and what do we need to do to make that happen. I feel that people are asking that leaders are asking those questions in their engagements whether it's be with governments or international NGOs you start to get the conversation. Very often certainly in situations of armed conflict it's women that hold everything together while the men are away fighting. We need to really recognize the strength and build on that but not to the exclusion of the experience of men and boys so we know sexual violence occurs in armed conflict predominantly with women and girls but also with men and boys and so we need to be very careful when we're thinking about women separately to think about it as a part of a picture a big part of a picture but not the only part of the picture. How do people who had no power when our program started have power now how do they have power to actually engage in processes to negotiate to bargain how do they have power with each other to be able to mobilize groups of people around common issues women's groups mobilizing around common issues and how are they able to actually have the power to influence the agenda in that community in that district in that country I think those sorts of questions to me are quite pivotal they're not often asked. So there's a lot more focused now on trying as much as we can to procure locally trying to support for example women's businesses on the ground to give them some capacity development or just give them some business to get going so seeing that as part of the national ownership and the sustainability of what we leave behind after we go is really important too. I think we need to get a lot better at building resilience particularly women's resilience on the ground to disasters so that there are action plans developed by women that they're able to enact when a disaster happens.