 Very often, researchers are doing their research in their corner and they think they know what they're researching. And on the other side, we have dairy value chains, stakeholders who are doing dairy development and might not necessarily be aware that there are tools for analysis that exist that could actually help them understand better what they are doing and the problems they are facing. So the objective of this conference was to get together researchers and stakeholders from the dairy value chains in Africa so that there was an exchange between the researchers who can bring their tools and the dairy value chain stakeholders who can bring their experience, their cases and their problems so that everybody actually gets to interact and gets more knowledgeable. What we wanted is to make sure that people, actors from the dairy value chain would come and set basically their own agenda. So we had an open mini-space where people came up with ideas, suggestions and then people interested by that would just follow and discuss with them. So what we want this seminar to provide is some kind of platform where people can come, share but also try to define common agenda. That's really what we want. And of course for CTA we hope that this kind of forum can also inform our own support in terms of sharing of documentation, sharing of knowledge but also capacity building and also our support to multi-stakeholder platform. That's really what we want. We also organized four field visits that our participants went to see the dairy plants in the field and farmers they are working with and then these people actually came back to the seminar to participate in the seminar with us. We decided not to go for a typical workshop or seminar with a series of presentation, talk show, plenary session. What we have really tried to do for those two days was really to make sure that people would interact. So we have used different knowledge management and communication techniques to make sure that people would have a say, would have the possibility to really interact with their peers. We had a very interesting session today on what we call peer assist where someone with a very concrete problem come to the table and then you have a group of 10 people around trying to, based on their own experience, trying to respond and to come up with some concrete solutions. We have really used different techniques to make sure that those interactions, this sharing of experience really happens. And I must say that from my own opinion I think this so far has been a great success.