 U3% is over one third of the population in Liberia and Sierra Leone. They have a critical role to play in the future of food security. However, every day young people move away from agriculture because of the very limited opportunities there are for them. The Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations supports the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone to enhance responsible investment in agriculture with a strong focus on mobilizing youth's potential. Agriculture, youth, there's no way you can talk about developing Liberia without those two and that's why as RIAI team we're trying to ensure that youth is mainstream but also they are fully empowered to ensure that agriculture is sustainable and more responsible. FAO has worked with policy makers to improve governance aspects that are strategic to promote youth engagement in agriculture. This has been done through assessments, learning programs and policy dialogue. One of the key learnings is that it beat up my capacity as a director and it has given me the inspiration or the motivation to look at so many unseen opportunities out there. Especially when it comes to training I've realized through this workshop that there is need for a paradigm shift. In parallel FAO has provided capacity development support to youth organizations on advocacy skills, inclusive business models and policy dialogue engagement. Through this project we've been able to address a bit of the capacity issues especially as it relates to training under the different responsible agriculture principles. We've been able to train them on organizational development, advocacy, climate smart agriculture and so forth. So they now have that capacity to take on issues and move forward especially with the participation in the policy dialogue issues. So we are making some progress and the impact is visible because after the training a lot of them were able to go and restructure, redesign their different youth organizations. This is what we can see from this point that young people were able to get out of the process. They got the skill to be able to recognize and serve in the active groupings and entrepreneurial activities wherein they can be able to contribute to full security. They were also trained to be able to work with actors in the agriculture value chain through the inclusive business model which gives them the opportunity to know the actors and to know the mentors and the approaches and principles that are most needed to make sure that they get the most out of what they are doing in agriculture entrepreneurship. This process has included a multi-stakeholder dialogue event where youth had the opportunity to discuss directly with policy makers. The policy dialogue of one of the major account was that we were able to develop a national action plan as well as a national community for the young people that will be presented or that has been presented to the government, functionaries including the executive and then the legislators and others so that young people aspirations can be seen in the policy development and concession granting processes in Liberia in relation to responsible agriculture investment. What we aim to do in the future and particularly for Liberia and Sierra Leone is to work on very tangible steps to empower youth in the context of responsible agriculture investment. Their involvement in policymaking processes, their enhanced access to financial services, to training incubation, to formal education, their enhanced access to markets and also working with the youth through peer-to-peer learning and self-help groups.