 Analyst, Ms. Sabah Gebra-Mitten from Ethiopia. You are also the head of a network of women's associations in Ethiopia. Also promoting gender equality in women's empowerment, striving to address the pressing challenges in front of you. We've heard from many of our speakers about this pernicious cycle of protection risks linked to conflict, atmospheres and environments of aggravated food insecurity. Could you reflect on your experience and also, but perhaps draw also on Madam Ayesha's also experience in Niger, working with women's organizations. What role do you see for women's led organizations in addressing food insecurity and protection risks in Ethiopia? And could you share with us some of your challenges and opportunities from your perspective? Over to you. Thank you so much, and I think I'm introduced already. I lead a network of Ethiopia Women's Association, which also has a membership of organizations working in different parts of the country. And these areas include some of the conflict prone areas as well as drought areas. These organizations work in these areas and they are our members. So I think protection as a center of the humanitarian action has been very well explained earlier on. And what it means to us and what it means to the community, maybe that's where I will focus. Of course, the responsibility to protect humanity, to protect individuals and communities is, I think, the reason and the very basis of the coming foundation of humanitarian nationalism and humanitarian responses. And that is the very thing that we lose immediately as we are in crisis. When it comes to my country, Ethiopia, maybe you have heard, we have been in a crisis for the last three years due to conflicts that arise in different parts of the country. And at the same time, also because of natural disasters like drought that happened in Somalia and other regions. And we have seen how immediately, even the fact that we have worked for more than 20 years in changing laws, policies in gender equality, in harmful practices, in women's economic empowerment programs, really went back to where they were for a long time now. And the immediate results that we have seen during the crisis, for example, in Ben-Shangul, which is in a conflict that happened between ethnic groups, immediately made women vulnerable because women were displaced, but at the same time they were also violated. And where they were violated is very surprising because there was an IDP, a big IDP that was created in the center of Ben-Shangul. And women and children were being raped within the IDP centers. So we had a shelter around that place where we bring women from IDPs, children from IDPs to be treated and, I mean, provided services, both psychosocial support as well as medical and other support. So I was so shocked at the time because even there you have to protect them. Even in our own humanitarian response, women need to be protected, children need to be protected. And then we had the crisis in the conflict in the north between the Gray and the regional government and the federal government. The war that has really brought a lot of damage was as a country, as families, as communities. And this war, I have seen how women immediately become victims of sexual violence beyond all the hardest that they have seen. Most women have been displaced in another place. And women who had very, it may not be a good livelihood, a very luxurious life, but they had a livelihood. They had an income. And when our president went to visit one of the shelters, the women in the shelter said, I had my own income, which is coming from a local brewery, we call it Allah, which is a very, very small income, of course. But she said I had a family, had kids, I had my own house where I live, even if it is a very small one. What do I have now? And now I have even lost my dignity. So it's just to say that every minute that we have crisis, of course that's not the way it should be. We as women organizations say that wherever there is conflict, it's not a checklist that we need to take to have sexual violence. But we have seen a very rampant sexual violence that happened in Afar, in Tigray, in Amhara, in all the conflict areas. And beyond that, now, even when we have a peace agreement signed, you know, you see how women are trying to cope due to the lack of livelihood. I was shocked to see in those capitals of the regional state that I went through, women are actually standing on the street now. It has never happened that way. I mean, these places are very cultured. So even though it happens, it has been happening. Commercial sex wars doesn't happen on the streets now. Women are actually standing in each corner of the streets wherever you go in these regions. And it's really heartening to see this, because we're putting them in a much more vulnerable situations. Women organizations through this process, they have been very much at the forefront. As I said, they are providing psychosocial support. And even during the siege, where there was no humanitarian response allowed to go into the conflict areas, communities organize themselves. And they were the ones providing food to communities, even from whatever they had. And it's not only food that these people lack. There was social services. Women were not able to get medical services. Women pregnant women were not able to get maternal services in their areas. So communities coped to give this. Women organizations tried to fill this gap that was created during the conflict time. And it's the same when that we saw in drought areas, that women were much more victimized during these areas. Because communities were migrating to other areas where they can find water and food. And some of the people who couldn't do that, they were left behind. And I had raised it in one of the humanitarian clusters during that time. That we have to think about protection immediately when we think about whether it's drought, whether it's conflict, it's the same. So I see that there is a lot of opportunities at this point in time. Because what we did was, as women organizations, we came together and we started to orient to aware women organizations on the humanitarian architecture. Because they are doing this without, I mean, true collection of donations, true collection of humanitarian aid from their families abroad and so on and so on. But they have to go into the major mainstream humanitarian system. So we have trained women organizations on the ground on how to provide psychosocial support and on how to get into clusters and influence all those humanitarian systems and processes. So I see that as a better opportunity. But the challenge is that there is still the assumption that such local actors, such women organizations who have been there for a long time providing this services with the communities, because they are their constituencies, they cannot leave them alone. And women expect their organizations to do that as well. When they don't do that, then they say, why are you here? What is the agency? What is your core for me? So they were there to support them. But now when in peacetime, when everything is allowed to go in, these organizations don't get funds. So that is a major challenge because they're considered to be not qualified or not equipped well, not professional, not having all the experts or the resources. But I do believe humanity, humanitarian response is about humanity. And I feel it much more than people coming from far away. I know every one of us have a stake and a purpose in providing humanitarian responses. But I really think it's time that women organizations on the ground are given their agency back. And they're given the resource, they're given the information and come into the system where they can also do a better service to their communities and their agency. Because humanitarian crisis doesn't stop there, it's a cycle. And if we don't deal with it, now I see, for example, education was disrupted for three years in Tigray. And most of the girls I talked with, they say they don't want to go back to school because they are now somehow 18, 19, and they haven't done any high school classes. So they see how long is it going to take me to go to college and to have my own. So even it's about early marriage, it's about not having women and girls in education that we are going to pay in the next few years. So unless we make strong community-based actions, then a lot we have to pay both in terms of livelihood, in terms of protection, in terms of peace and development. Thank you so much. Thank you very much, Sabah, for those powerful, powerful words.