 My name is Roland Mugumia. I'm a research support specialist for the program on climate smart livestock systems in Uganda. Specifically my role is to support the three key activities that the program will be carrying out. The first is on dissemination of climate smart livestock intervention and that entails establishing the greenhouse gas emission baselines, testing the best bet interventions that are being carried out and trying to ensure that they are adopted by the livestock farmers. The second one is on policies which ideally entails integration of climate change mitigation and adaptation in development of livestock related policies. And for this it will involve me supporting the establishment of the multi-stakeholder learning platforms. Through that we will see how the development related pathways can come into place and trying to ensure that the policies are developed through the lessons that I will be learnt as well as the action research. And the third and most important one is on development of the measurements, reporting and verification protocols which are key for the country and this involves enhancing the capacities of the stakeholders that will be responsible for reporting to the United Nations framework on climate change secretariat. Because it will contribute to that three key pillars of climate smart agriculture that is one increasing livestock production because Uganda in particular, the livestock productivity is still low so if this project can contribute to that then that is good. The second one is on reducing or contributing towards reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and since these emissions are the ones that contribute to climate change so if the project can contribute to that then that is good. And the third one is on adaptation towards climate change so I believe these three key pillars are really important and that's why the program is indeed important. What excites me is that among us all that it will be doing is that it will lead to the development of the measurement, reporting and verification protocols which will be developed using the tier 2 method. At the moment the country does not have those ones so if they can develop those protocols then it means that Uganda as a country can be better placed to make what I'm calling better reporting to the United Nations framework on climate change And by so doing it means also the country is better placed to attract climate finance because the funders of climate finance are interested in countries that have these protocols and they are using those protocols because if they give us the funds then they are able to, they can objectively verify if we are achieving what we committed to or even the interventions that are being carried out you can see the impact of those interventions based on the protocols that have been developed and being used. Now for example you cannot, as a country you can't say that you're going to reduce on your greenhouse gas emissions when you do not know the level of the greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically for livestock these protocols will entail determining the objectively the greenhouse gases that are being emitted and those protocols will be used subsequently to track down how the emissions are going to be reduced in the subsequent years. In the multi-stakeholder learning platforms there will be many livestock related stakeholders, there will be a series of meetings and they will lead to the development of the livestock development pathways as well as action research and lessons that will be learnt. It is through these lessons that will be learnt and action research that will develop recommendations which are key for the development of the livestock related policies.