 I'm Anne and Walter Speyer and I'm with an NGO, a non-governmental organization in evidence called ETC and I'm most involved in a program, a network actually called ProLenova, promoting local innovation. And today at this workshop for AgriGender 2011. We have distilled five lessons about integrating gender aspects. The first one is an absolute must to do a gender analysis with each project, program, research that you are doing because you cannot assume that it's the same everywhere. You have to know what's actually happening, the roles and responsibilities of men and women, access to resources, etc. The second lesson was you actually need to focus on women, not just talk about integrating gender issues into the overall project and we will try to give some attention to women, but actually think what specifically can we do so that we are focusing specifically on the needs and the concerns of women and how can we strengthen their capacity to be able to in this case contribute in livestock value chain development. Then the third major lesson is to do with organization, supporting women's organizational capacities if they can get together, for example in processing of agricultural products, in marketing of agricultural products they then have greater economies of scale and they can strengthen each other. The fourth lesson was to do with training and education. Women and girls have much less access still today in Africa at any rate to good education and training and specifically talking about livestock development. A lot of the training, the extension work and so is still going to men and there has to be much more specific aspect to how can we bring women into these training activities how can we increase the literacy rates of women, their leadership capacities, all these kind of trainings. Then the fifth lesson is recognize and promote women's innovation because even in the poorest households women are trying to improve their families welfare, they're trying to improve themselves, they're trying to outdo different things, they're facing different challenges and they're experimenting and many people don't recognize that. But if you start with recognizing what women, resource poor women are already trying to do to improve, in this case we were talking about livestock value chain development, in this case it would be often to do with processing and marketing of livestock products then you will have an entry point for joint participatory research and development activities which is building on the strengths and the capacities and the directions in which the women want to go. And finally, the final point that I was making is we really need to give high profile documentation to women, livestock keepers, women livestock product processes in markets, in trade and so to create this image to change really the perceptions of a lot of professionals who seem to just automatically think as soon as you start talking about processing and marketing etc etc big projects you're talking about men to get them to realize that you're talking about women, the half of society as well as men and to really raise the profile of the successful women, the innovative women, the women that are involved in deciding about projects and research the women for example that are making decisions in the local innovation support fund that I was talking about, profile these women and so that everybody at all levels, all levels in government, in education really recognize what contribution women are making to development that was my major message.