 My name is Nicholas Abuya, I work with the Christian Ed Kenyakanti Program as a Program Officer for Climate Change and I'm glad to share with you my experience of participating in a number of previous international conferences on community-based adaptation or CBA. Community-based adaptation conferences are a platform for learning like no other. From my experience, I can describe them more or less like a melting pot of sorts where practitioners of community-based adaptation meet to share information, knowledge and lessons from their work coming from different countries across the globe. At the end of it all, when you participate in the community-based adaptation, you come out of it with a changed perspective having deepened your knowledge and even sharpened your skills so that you can do things differently and even getting inspired to take best practices to scale. This year 2020 is like no other year. We've been affected by COVID-19 pandemic and we may not be having the fiscal meetings as it was before, but thank God that the organizers of the CBA conference for this year have organized for an online meeting. I would urge you to take time so that you can part of this rich learning experience such that at the end of it all, we shall come out a community or practice composed of people who are increasingly sharpening their knowledge, skills and understanding of community-based adaptation so that we can do our bit in addressing the impact of climate change, particularly among the most vulnerable communities. Thank you.