 My name is Kababa Organo. I work for International Livestock Research Institute as a research officer. I work for a further adoption project and the project is implemented in Ethiopia, Syria and Vietnam. Yesterday a further round table was held and then that further round table. I presented a paper on multi stakeholder platform facilitating the identification and adoption of different further options in Ethiopia. The major issues in that was just further was an entry point. As we went along the implementation process, we entered into a number of value chain issues like AI services, veterinary services, breeding and marketing of milk procuring some inputs and sourcing inputs for the farmers. So one of the important issues is just we need to have something on the ground to arouse the interest of number of stakeholders and that is very important. Once we have that thing on the ground and something to show to others, the number of stakeholders getting engaged into this stakeholder platform kept on increasing and everybody was enthusiastic and one of the lessons is we need to balance concrete actions on the ground and facilitating the stakeholder platform. Do you have some particular lessons that you learned from that process of facilitation? Yes, a lot of lessons and I think we have to be honest. The stakeholder platform facilitation is not an easy thing and it needs a lot of patience, flexibility and adjusting to changing conditions in a given context. So we did a number of these things over the course of the project and as I said one of the lessons is there should be a balance between concrete action and stakeholder platform. It cannot be simply a talk show where people gather and share views and go. If it is something of that sort, it doesn't work. Can you give an example of one of those action things? One of the actions is just we try to identify farmers' priority problem and feed scarcity was one of their number one problem and then once we identified this feed scarcity as their major problem to livestock production and focus group discussions and key informant interviews then we invited farmers to see some further crops grown by different farms and once they see how these things are done in reality then they started to identify which really suits their needs so they were given choices and then they took what really feels good for them and then they tried out in their fields and then once they see that fodder is a good thing then they wanted dairy animals this good fodder should be fed to good animals which can yield better milk and milk products and then we started to source some dairy cows and once these dairy cows came into the system they also needed veterinary services, AI services and then once these animals gave birth and started to give milk then this milk has to be sold and for this they needed market linkages so initially we started with fodder as an entry point and along the course of the project implementation we were pulled to engage ourselves into number of value chain issues and that is how the project went particularly well