 Hello, my name is Emily Awuma. I'm an agricultural economist. I work for Ilri. I'm based in Uganda. And in Uganda we do a lot of work on the pig value chain and simply because the pig sector is rapidly becoming an important sector in Uganda. The demand for pork is rising. So we see several opportunities for smallholder pig farmers as well as other value chain actors to benefit to tap into this opportunity. We've carried out pig value chain assessments as part of livestock and fish CJI research program to identify constraints and opportunities in the pig value chain. In Uganda, smallholders are the majority players in the pig value chain. And women play a very important role, especially in the production, not of the value chain. They take care of the pigs. They source for feeds. They source for water for their pigs. They care for the pigs when the pigs are sick and they also clean the pig's thighs. Now, when we come to the marketing nodes of the value chain and even slaughter and processing, we see that women are no longer involved and men seem to be becoming more visible post-production node of the value chain. Now, our interest in this value chain is to find ways in which women can get more involved in the post-production nodes of the value chain and also find out if they are benefiting from the benefits that come from the post-production nodes of the value chain. We are pilot testing and intervention that we call pig business hubs. And these are simply ways of bringing together integrating farmers with other service providers so that they can carry out a pigery as a business. So our interest is to find out whether women are participating in these pig business hubs and if they are benefiting from the benefits that are derived from the pig business hubs. So what we've done is to carry out some study to assess the types of issues or factors that influence participation of both men and women in the pig business hub and to also assess some of the factors that influence if they would derive benefits from the pig business hub intervention that we are pilot testing. So far the results reveal that the hubs associated with feeds are okay. They are open space for both men and women. However, the hubs around markets seem to be rather contentious because men seem to dominate and have a lot of power in terms of use of the benefits from the enterprise. And this is largely because of some of the cultural beliefs, cultural norms that somehow elevate men. They seem to have power and it is known and women even accept it. They say that in order to maintain respect at home, for instance, then they would rather have men make decisions as regards the benefits from the enterprise. So what that means for us, therefore, is that even as we are pilot testing some of these interventions, we need to be gender aware. We need to think about the outcomes in terms of the benefits that these interventions translate for men and women. So for the pig business hub, we are now considering involving other partners who have capacities in implementing interventions that promote mindset change so that men can open more space for women to get some entitlements from the benefits of some of these interventions.