 My name is Raffaele Mattioli. I work in an FAO in the animal production and health division. I'm in the division dealing with animal health and production and also animal genetics. I'm also a focal point for gender issues. FAO has organized a regional workshop here in Ilri with the support of another division in FAO, the Gender Equity Division and the support of the Subregional Office for Eastern Africa based in Addis. The main purpose of the workshop was to get acquainted with the role of gender in the livestock sector and how to increase the income of women, girls and boys and minority groups through the use of livestock. Participants were from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia and we are very pleased to have with us Jemima Juki, who is an Ilri staff who has acted as a facilitator of the Gender Livestock Workshop. They have been introduced to the socioeconomic gender analysis, which is a tool developed by FAO and widely used in Africa, in Asia and in other parts of the world to better understand the role of gender in various situations and in this case, particularly in livestock. The number of participants, we were about 16 participants. Some of them from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, other were FAO staff from the national offices or from the regional and subregional offices here in Addis Ababa. The workshop was very well received from the participants, as in an interactive and participatory and the participants already asked FAO to replicate this kind of workshop in other parts of Africa. We have the pleasure to have in this workshop also people from the government, which is the Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicine and from EFAD. We do hope that the participants will go back to their respective countries and then they can really implement what they have learned here and spread the message in the rural communities and particularly in the poor rural communities. What is the role of gender in livestock and in others? This is crucial if we want to have a sustainable and successful rural development in agricultural and livestock sector.