 Thank you very much, Joseph, and good morning to everybody again. The Ignatrix on the Dias, ladies and gentlemen, it's my pleasure on behalf of the organizers, IID, Macarena University, and the government of Uganda, the Ministry of Water and Environment, to share with you some of the outcomes of the last few days of the conference that we've all been here together. But before I give you the main messages coming out of the conference, let me just give you a little bit of a feed for the statistics. We had over 300 participants from more than 50 countries, from all the major continents, taking part of whom 80 went to the field on four different groups, field trips for three days, and they came back very impressed by what they saw. During the conference itself, we had not just presentations and discussions, but a lot of videos, posters, different kinds of communications. We had an art exhibition from children, we had a poster exhibition with prizes, and we also had a very significant online presence on YouTube, on Twitter and on Facebook, and the posters, I'd like to inform you, got more than 3,000 hits during the time that we've been here. So the posters are very popular, as you can tell, and I'm sure that number will go up over time. We also would like to appreciate the efforts of our Ugandan colleagues who not only organized a youth conference that we just heard about in parallel to the CBA, they also organized a pre-CBA symposium with about 300 national stakeholders a few days before the CBA to drama, support, and interest in it. So the people you see in the room are not the only people that have been engaged in this issue, either Ugandan or worldwide, although we are the ones who have been here physically. I'll now share some of the main messages that have come out of the various sessions and discussions, and I want to apologize because the session chairs have all sent me their headline messages. I may not be able to cover all of them. I assure you they'll all be included in the final proceedings that Hanna will be in charge of, but I've cherry-picked just a few of them to share, and I've aggregated them with messages targeted at particular audiences, and I'm going to go through those particular audiences one by one. The first audience is ourselves. We, the organizers of the CBA series, we asked at the beginning, and we had a session a little while ago, on feedback on the series. Should it continue? Should it meet an annual or every second year event? Should we move the venue or stay in the same place? Should we keep the same name, or should we change the name? Should we vary the content? We've got a tremendous amount of feedback from all of you. We haven't come to any decisions yet, but we hope that we'll be able to collate that and bring it together and my colleague Claire Schachter is in charge of pulling the talk together. But my sense is there's overwhelming support for us to continue the series. We will find a way to do so. Normally, in previous years, we would have announced where CBA 12 is now. We're taking a little bit of time this time to think about the future of the series and not just do it one year at a time in a sort of ad hoc manner, but have a thinking of over the next few years how we can make this the annual event if it remains an annual event, a more strategic activity with activities between events and then across the years. So a little bit of strategic thinking is going to go into this, but I'm pretty sure we can say there will be a CBA 12 at some point in time in the future. So give your eyes and ears to the ground at the time. My second audience are a very big part of the people who are here are international and national NGOs, largely development NGOs, but also some environmental NGOs at WWF and others. You have been our strong partners from the very beginning. We hope that you've found this valuable and by the fact that you are continuing to participate, I think that's true. One of the major messages, so one reflection and then one message, the reflection is that when we start in this conference, well over 11 years ago, this is the 11th conference, when we've been running them the first three, we ran two years apart. So we've been running them more than 11 years. The participants for mainly development NGOs who are already working with vulnerable communities, but were not familiar with climate change. They came to learn about climate change community based adaptation. Over time, every single one of them has developed a climate change program. They've raised funding from their donors in the tens of millions. They have affected communities and households in the tens of thousands. And now we are sharing that experience amongst ourselves. So going forward, the challenge for all of us collectively and particularly those of you who work on the ground with the communities is scaling. We need to go from tens of thousands to millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions. We need the funding flow to go from tens of millions to hundreds of millions and even millions. NGOs can't deliver at that scale. NGOs can have governments and international funding agencies to deliver at that scale. But the necessary skill and knowledge of how to do it can come from the NGOs and they can share that. So we need to be better at doing advocacy and sharing our knowledge and messages to enable that scaling up to take place by other actors. My third group of audiences are researchers and more broadly what I would call knowledge brokers and there are many of us in this group. The research community over the last 11 years has increasingly looked at community-based adaptation. We get many, many more young researchers doing masters, PhDs, all this and that's a good thing. Many of the NGOs have knowledge, management systems being produced, knowledge products being produced and that again is a very good thing. I'll also mention the discussions around the theme for this conference which is ecosystem-based adaptation and community-based adaptation. Generally, academics try and have very strong definitions of one and of the other whereas practitioners really don't care as long as they work. We find a way to work the two together and unsurprisingly I think the consensus is we need to do both, it's not an either-or but wherever our entry point is whether we come in from the ecosystem or from the community-based we need to recognize the other. My own preferred metaphor is it's like coming into this room with two doors on the outside of the door one door is marked EBA the other door is marked CBA those of us who work on EBA stand in front of one door those of us who work in CBA stand in front of the other door once we come through the door we're in the room we're all together we have to work together there really is not much difference between who's EBA who came in through which door so we have to work together the entry point might be different but the end point is the same. My and one other message on the outcomes of the knowledge products that are coming out with experience what we have to focus on now is no longer simply emphasizing the vulnerability of communities or ecosystems but emphasizing successful examples of community-based and ecosystem-based piloting and activities as Felix just said and how do we scale them up how do we make them more effective get the governments and the large funders to invest in using those good successes and expanding so right now focus on success emphasizing success and bringing that to other people's attention my fourth group is a relatively new group for us the UN framework convention on climate change secretariat and also the NAP process the national adaptation plans involving governments we're very pleased that the UNFCC secretariat agreed and I must thank the secretariat and also the LDC expert group who are in charge of this process and Adrian Fitzgerald is a member of the leg for brokering this marriage between the NAP expo and the CBA conference I feel personally and I have good feedback from others and it was a success I think that I hope that the UNFCC and NAP people will think the same it's a means of what is in the NAP process a very government driven somewhat top-down process from the global to the national meeting the community-based actors and learning from the communities and I think we had a very good sharing yesterday and we need to build on that and improve in it and particularly as countries develop their national adaptation plans they need to now ensure that the voices of the most vulnerable and also of ecosystems is incorporated into those NAPs so I would say that's a good success something we need to follow up on with the UNFCC process my fifth group our audience are the government and the people of Uganda firstly I must thank them wholeheartedly for the way they impressed us I came here one year ago to meet with the government and with our partners in Makarewa to discuss the organizing of this event and after that I have left it largely on their shoulders and they have done a brilliant job of doing that and bringing it together and as I said not only helping us with this conference but also with the parallel youth conference and in pre-conference equals to raise awareness of this issue so the two messages that I will highlight for our friends in Uganda firstly we had a number of sessions where we had participants from Uganda take place for different representations from government non-government youth sectors and one of the things that they all mentioned was the need for all the actors to collaborate more effectively to find more synergy between the government, between the research and the university sector between the NGOs, private sector and the youth in particular and I want to also highlight the issue of the youth as you heard from Dakhneel and Walabo Uganda has a very large part of its population that is young and that in fact represents a huge opportunity for the government and the people in Uganda we need to invest in those young people we need to make them climate champions make them innovators and they are the ones who can help us tackle the problems of climate change this is true not just for Uganda but for all countries in the world and I think particularly relevant for Uganda and we are very grateful that the youth representatives here were able to take part in our conference we always have this dilemma of many more people wanting to come to the conference that we can accommodate and these are ways in which we try to accommodate that have them hold a parallel event and synergies between the two events and then from there we give them a platform to come and speak to this larger international gathering with their views and their voices and we are very grateful that Dakhneel were able to do that thank you very much both of you so my final group of target audiences are educators and I count myself as one of them those of us who work in universities and teach or colleges or schools that's an extremely important element in educating the next generation as Prasunda says not even youth or university students we have to go even younger to school kids and we need to drill down and we need to be much more innovative we had a very good session on educators roles and one of the messages was we have to be a lot more innovative we have to bring in artists and singers and musicians and all kinds of other people to get the message to young people to get them to understand the problem and more importantly than understanding the problem become part of the solution become activists themselves in solving the problem and we all need to put our thinking caps on how to do that I'll speak now very quickly about one of the initiatives that we are now familiar with that we did here in CBI 11 in Uganda which was initiated in new least developed countries, universities consortium on climate change the land which we will see for short which Macarena University in my centre in Bangladesh is going to co-lead it's a south-south initiative there's no donors, there's any donors around here who want to support us we welcome that but it is our own initiative we are doing it ourselves we are starting with 10 universities in the consortium and we reach out to 48 countries there are 48 least developed countries in Asia and Africa and we will reach out to all of them a network of universities where we have both faculty doing teaching and research but very importantly we will have students linking up with each other the youth as we mentioned earlier so that's going to be a major new initiative coming out of CBI 11 and hopefully continuing with the CBI 12 and 13 and onwards going forward where we hope that the lab program will be able to include particularly for the capacity building and training into the future CBI program so it's not just networking and sharing but also some learning focus learning and training so those are the major messages that I have sort of cherry picked out of the ones that I've got for our discussion leaders here to share with you here today before I close I'd like to ask all of you to thank our host the government of Macarena University also the staff of the hotel for making our stay here so nice so please give a round of applause I wanted to mention people by name because we have a lot of our colleagues who have been helping us very much and I'd like to appreciate their and recognize their help