 My name is Rita Lopidier. I am from South Sudan and the Executive Director of EIF Organization for Women Development and really happy to be here. Now that we have a country, we thought that all the challenges that women went through, the difficulties, the displacement, no opportunities for women, the violence of the conflict on women, all these things we thought once we have our country now things are going to improve and all of us were in to ensure that we build a better country. Little did we know that it is a beginning of another type of a conflict. Two years down the line after independence there was leadership struggle in the country and conflict broke out again. And being so passionate about a country that we have for so long been waiting for, we thought no, this is not happening. So what can we do as women? An EIF organization being there on the forefront really pushing for issues of women, peace and security using the 1325 agenda. We found ourselves on the forefront and we keep on receiving calls, hey, what are we supposed to do? What can we do? Can we call out the parties to stop? Can we say something? We realized that as an organization it's not enough. We need to open up the space to ensure more women came up. And that is how the South Sudan Women's Coalition was formed. And they participated in the peace process. We advocated, we see the space open, more women in the peace process. And if you look into the South Sudan revitalized peace agreement, there are a lot of gender components in the peace agreement. We have a vice president, that is a woman. We have the minister of defense, that is a woman. We have the speaker in the parliament. It's a female. We have a deputy speaker in the council of states. It's a woman. So it opened up the space for women to also hold these key positions which has never been occupied by women. Right now the process is still going on to have the second national action plan on UN Security Council Resolution 1325. I would say our experience with the first NAP was bittersweet because by the time the NAP was launched, the country went into conflict right after that. But we still use that NAP to open up the space because it is a legitimate document that is passed by the government. So even during the peace process, we use the NAP that women should be able to participate. And I think it worked out. Because our organization's focus is really on women and myself and my colleagues we discuss and we thought okay, they have been actually a number of men that supported our initiative. And they are strong advocates for women issues. And we also realized that during the peace process, some of the information and some of the advices, we actually got from other men and we noted that they are men who are good allies for women. So we came up with this Adams initiative and Adam is just like the first humans Adam and Eve. So we thought we'll name our group Adam that will work with men and raise their awareness on issues that are happening to women. So this initiative, we have launched it in three states in South Sudan. That is Eastern Equatoria where we have a lot of challenges of the girl-child marriage and we have the girl-child compensation, which is when a murder happens in a family that will take a girl-child to compensate for that murder. So we have been working in that state with community leaders and we established Adam Group in Eastern Equatoria. Recently we had a conversation with them and they are doing amazing work in the community raising the awareness of young men on why it is very important to fight some of these social norms that actually puts women down. The second one is established in Central Equatoria and one in Western Bargazal. So we hope that we work closely with men that will promote the interests of women and take inclusivity as important.