 The next presenter I would like to invite Frank, who will share with us his research and assessment on the progress of gender equality, how he'll call framework of action mainstream gender and what's the situation so far. So it tried to identify opportunity to mainstream gender into the post 2015 disaster risk eruption action plan. Thank you, Ha. I've also had a dream. My dream is not quite as articulate yet as Magnus's dream, but I decided to give this presentation anyway, even though it's fairly early days. It's a little bit more than a dream and an idea in that we've already done some work on this, but the idea, or my hope at least, is that this might lead to something much larger. So at the moment this, I have to call it a concept note because that's what it says in PMAC. It hasn't really reached the stage of a project yet. It's been running on the efforts of an intern, Diane Guria, who is a French lady who's been working with us in Bangkok for over the last three months and who's now working for IID on community-based adaptation in Ethiopia. Other than that, it's been mostly running on the smell of an oily rag and a lot of in-kind time. So the idea here is to address one of the key issues that's been left unaddressed to a great extent in disaster risk reduction efforts. And that is gender aspects in terms of vulnerability to hazards and other environmental risks. And it's a project that we're working on together with UNDP in Bangkok with the Regional Crisis Prevention and Recovery Program, which is part of the Regional Center for Asia Pacific. And what we're interested in is to try and understand how the Hyogo Framework for Action, which is the current global framework for disaster risk reduction, has incorporated gender as a key element of disaster risk reduction and what progress has been made under the HFA to address gender and to identify opportunities for doing things better in the post-HFA period after 2015. So as you know, a lot of these things like the HFA as well as the Millennium Development Goals are coming to an end and there's now a lot of effort and SEIs involved in a lot of that effort to decide what should follow from these strategies. So in terms of, in the context of disaster risk reduction, I don't think I need to say much about the role of gender. It is a key determinant of social vulnerability. A lot of evidence has been collected that both genders are vulnerable to changes and risks in different ways because of their roles and responsibilities, because of cultural and traditional roles and norms. And that to up to now there's been a fairly limited uptake of these considerations, how to better consider gender in disaster risk reduction policies can be improved, and particularly in the post-HFA environment. So how can we better design and implement policies for gender equality and particularly the empowerment of women and how can we actually develop mechanisms for measuring progress. So the idea behind this project is to look particularly at the HFA priority one, which is to ensure that disaster risk reduction is a national and local priority with a strong institutional basis and implementation. And this really goes to the core of what Charlotte, the Director General of CEDA, was talking about earlier, in that I guess rather than preaching to the choir and talking to like-minded people in various organizations and the government, how do we really reach the people at the top that make the decisions about strategies and budgets and how can we get them to place more interest and investment in gender aspects in this case. And of course this priority is only one of five of the HFA's objectives and it's fair to say that all five priority areas of the HFA have some aspects of gender equality within them, but we decided to focus on this one. And we also decided to focus on the three of the most vulnerable countries within Asia that are very poor countries that are very prone to hazards and climate change impacts and to try to support those countries in particular. But the idea really is to engage in a regional cooperation with many countries in Southeast Asia and to develop a strategic partnership between SEI and UNDP, which hopefully from this year on will be funded. So what we're interested in is to try and understand the mechanisms or the steps at the various levels of disaster risk reduction and decision making on how this priority one can be translated into measurable actions through policies, investments and activities. So the questions that are guiding us are basically how are gender aspects considered under the HFA, what progress has been made today, today to address gender dimensions, how can social vulnerability be addressed or to be reduced further by addressing these gender aspects and how can we better monitor, evaluate and report gender aspects. So what we're hoping as an outcome of these will be improved recommendations, as I said for the post-2015 agenda, as well as some new and improved assessment methods that will look particularly at indicators to measure gender aspects which don't really exist today. And we did a mission, a joint UNDP SEI mission to Myanmar, one of the case study countries where we undertook interviews with key stakeholders as well as focus groups with the disaster risk reduction working group as well as quite a large number of organizations that are working on disaster risk reduction or other community development aspects that include gender and have some bearing on disaster risk reduction. And there's a whole bunch of findings of course, initial insights that are coming out of that which I don't have the time to go through but overall it's clear that there's very little even though it's manifest in the new disaster management law which has just been enacted in July of this year, there's a lot of legal and regulatory guidance for disaster risk reduction and for the inclusion of gender and the empowerment of women in particular but how that is going to be achieved through these particular five objectives is quite unclear at the moment and there's a lot of scope for us to and we're in the process of doing this to support this process to look at how each of these objectives can actually be translated into particular activities. So it's one of these opportunities I think that we have in SEI and particularly with the new initiative for disaster resilience that Haar mentioned earlier and there is a draft report available which I'm happy to share and I'll leave it there. Thanks very much.