 My name is Shrida Giduku from Groots Kenya. We are a women rights organization. We are a member of the International Land Coalition and the feminist land platform. I am grateful to be here. I am happy that as African has this space where we can debate our own issues around land governance. As you know, land in our continent has a lot of interest. There are many people since colonial time that have been trying to stamp their authority in Africa and take control of our resources. And I am happy that we have our own space to debate how do we deal with all this interest and specifically on the issue of land corruption. We have had a variety of discussion. I am quite impressed that the issue of gender justice and women land rights has been put on the spotlight in a big way. And I do hope that this is not just a matter of political correctness. And the reason why I am saying that is because corruption leads to failed public service and that's the greatest impact it has had in Africa. And women then step in to fill the gaps left by the state whether it is in health care or it is in supply for water. You find that a lot of women are very time poor because they spend most of their time taking care of sick people who should be at the hospital and fetching water and all these things. And this undermines their own development outcome. So for us the issue of land governance dealing with corruption is important for the achievement of gender equality and for women empowerment. But overall I would like to say there are also some things that I didn't like in the conference. First I think in the selection of the panelists especially for plenary it would be good to hear more original African voices because sometime I felt like there was too much of the ideology from the global north that is being pushed and packaged in different way which is detrimental because that's what we are struggling with. The SGG No. 10 talks about reduced inequality among countries and that will not be reduced if the community from north continue telling us how we should develop and how we should solve the problem that we have in Africa because they are also part of that problem. So that's something that I would like the ADB, AU and UNEKA to look at and of course more voices of women and sustain that conversation about gender justice and women land rights because it's a long term thing. Change doesn't happen instantly so we need to be consistent and put resources into it but overall in terms of land governance also we need to shift our conversation now from policing and laws and focus more on the practice get the African government to resource and mobilize political goodwill around land reform. I did not see a lot of member state government represented by the Ministry of Lands or the National Land Commissions as I would have expected and I think that is worrying. It's something that we should look into because these are the people who will manage to implement the reforms that we are pushing for right now but practice, practice, practice and measuring outcome is something that I would emphasize for the future policy dialogue spaces like this one.