 I'm going to talk about the 9th international conference on community-based adaptation being held in April this month, this year, in Kenya. The theme for this one is going to be on measuring and enhancing the effectiveness of adaptation with a special focus on community-based adaptation and vulnerable communities in particular. It starts on the 24th of April and lasts for a week as in other years we will be spending the first three days taking people out in groups of about 20 to different field sites where they will spend two nights hosted by a local community who are adapting to impacts of climate change and then come back to the capital city in Nairobi at the Safari Park Hotel where we will have four more days of discussions during the conference itself. We're expecting the President of Kenya to open it as well as Akim Steiner the head of United Nations Environment Programme based in Nairobi and we have a number of eminent scholars coming during the week as well as a gathering of the usual several hundred people from around the world working on community-based adaptation. In particular we are looking at this year measuring adaptation which has become an issue now that tens of billions of dollars are being spent on adaptation in terms of what are we buying for that money. At the moment the paradigm is very much focused on value for money it is a very donor driven top-down perspective on measurement and we feel that there are other paradigms that we can explore in particular a bottom-up paradigm of the vulnerable communities themselves for whom money is not necessarily the primary criteria perhaps knowledge or empowerment maybe other criteria that they would look for. So we are looking forward to a healthy debate good discussions and good scientific outcomes from those discussions at the end of April and encourage anybody who wishes to come to register if you don't aren't able to come yourself you can follow it online we'll be using social media Facebook and Twitter as well so we hope to have quite a few hundred followers following us even if they don't come to Nairobi for the meeting. So 2015 is a very critical year in the climate change calendar particularly since we have the conference of parties coming up in Paris in December this year in 2015 is the 21st conference of parties where we hope we will achieve a major breakthrough in terms of a globally binding agreement but there are many other events in the lead up to that and in particular the community based adaptation conferences that we hold every year this year being the ninth in the series holds a particularly important place where the vulnerable communities themselves are able to bring some of their knowledge and experience to bear and bring that to the international community and international negotiations that will take place in Paris so CBA 9 in Kenya and April will be an important event along the calendar of events that will take place in many different parts of the world in the run up to Paris in December this year.