 I am Francesca Di Stefano. I am a Gender and Development Consultant and I work for Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations within the Gender Equity and Rural Employment Division. At the beginning of this year, a workshop focusing on gender and livestock was jointly organized from the Gender Equity and Rural Employment Division and the Animal Production and Health Division in FAO at Quarters in Rome. We decided to organize this workshop for many reasons. We believe that gender issue is the main component in agricultural development and development actions. Gender issue is very high in the United Nations agenda. In 2010-2011, for this biennium, FAO published the State of Food and Agriculture report, the SOFA report. The SOFA report highlighted that 62.2% of the agricultural share of the economically active women. This is very important data for us. However, women still have a lot of constraints in accessing resources, services, and they have weak access to inputs in agriculture. Addressing the specific needs and issues that women face every day in agriculture is one of the main goals for the United Nations. We organized this workshop in order to understand and enhance participants' capacity to address gender issues in their work every day. We have different participants coming from five different countries in East Africa. Participants come from relevant organizations, FAO, EFAD, GALFMED, ILRI, and five different ministries. We had a huge response and participants were actively participating, commenting, providing inputs, and they were very interested. For us, this is a sign that gender is not only important, it's fundamental for them. They are establishing linkages among them, they are already planning, and we hope that this workshop is going to be repeated in different countries in Africa. The main goal of this workshop was to understand the key issues and the socio-economic issues in livestock production and management. Not only to understand them, but also mainly to address them into project design in order to have a real impact on different socio-economic groups. And to design projects that are gender-sensitive, but not only gender-sensitive, gender-responsive. So we hope that the main outcome of this workshop will be a simple tool. We developed a comprehensive gender livestock checklist that focused mainly on small stock. The SOFA report is highlighting that small stock is mainly managed by women in the rural areas. So we try to design a tool that is simple, that is straightforward, easy to use and that can be adapted to every regional contest. That in the upcoming future, simple tools like gender checklist will be developed more often, used more often, in order to address gender issues in a more comprehensive way into developmental actions. Thank you.