 My name is Dr. Michelle Dion, I am an animal health scientist with the International Life Tech Research Institute. I'm based in Kampala, Uganda. I am working in the small-holder pre-value chain in Uganda since 2012, a project which is hosted by the CGR Life-Taken Fish program. One year ago, I started using gender studies in order to mainstream them in my research. The reason why I started mainstreaming my research is that I thought it was interesting and really very critical to assess gender dimension in a pig heart boundary and disease control in order to inform our intervention in reducing pig diseases in Uganda. So basically the topic for my study is gender dimension in pig heart boundary and disease control using the case of african swine fever. As you may know, african swine fever is the most fair disease in the pig system in Uganda because it's high mortality rate and also the fact that there is no vaccine and there is no cure for the disease. And it is an endemic disease in Uganda and other african countries. And also knowing that the women are well invested in pig production in Uganda, it was critical to study the gender dynamics in relation to pig disease and pig heart boundary in order to inform intervention. The whole process started one year ago with the coaching from the KIT team and all the ill-read colleagues who are gender scientists. The study was conceived by myself and all the colleagues and the tools to mainstream gender were supported by gender specialists from ill-read and then from the KIT team. Basically what we did was to undertake some fieldwork using focus group discussion and intra-household survey to have information that was later on analyzed with gender experts to make sense of it and also to contribute to the interventions. So some of the main findings that we think could really significantly guide our intervention were number one, our differences in gender roles in relation at the intra-household level are mostly involved in in house feeding the pigs, watering the pigs, while men are more involved in the post-farm like the marketing and then access to I mean sourcing for veterinary services. That is one of division which was clear but interestingly when there is outbreak like the case of African sign fever there seem to be a shift in roles and relation and there seem to be more joint activity implementation in the household and this is probably driven by the fact that there is a risk, economic risk and also social risk which is associated to African sign fever which makes men and women really do anything they use not to do in order to eradicate the disease and gain most about figure. Then this finding is very interesting to be adapted in our training because it will help us now see who to target during the trainings and for this case I were suggesting that during trainings in disease control in livestock or in the pig systems it's better to target both men and women at the same time so that if one of them is not available at the time of the disease or the outbreak another one could cover. Another finding which is really interesting was that the fact that it's very important to have a take home message after training whoever attended the training should have a take home message in written way or like a poster or a leaflet or something that could inform the other people at home who did not attend the training and most importantly if the woman attended this could be a proof of attendance of training to the husband to avoid domestic violence and another that interesting finding is that ownership of the animals was also a factor that was a factor that could guide I mean the attendance of to the training especially for women so if women own pigs so they could make a stronger case to attend training but if they did not own pig then the attendance was lowered by the fact that they don't own pigs so the ownership of the animal is really important.