 Hello, I'm Asako Okai, UN Assistant Secretary General and the Director of Crisis Bureau of UNDP, United Nations Development Program. I am here today at the U.S. Institutes of Peace to talk about a new UNDP's framework for development solutions to crisis. Obviously there are things going worse. What the indicators should be going up is going down. This is why we came up with a new framework. We thought that the totally new thinking is needed to actually address this unprecedented crisis of our time. We defined our approach and then we basically come up with a three set of development solutions and approaches to address first to break the cycle of fragility, second to go ahead of the crisis curve, and third to invest in hope throughout the crisis. There are many examples that we achieved in scale with integrated solutions. Whether in Iraq or Yemen or Afghanistan, we have delivered in most difficult places. In Afghanistan, for instance, even after Taliban takeover, we have managed to put together the delivery system through local economies and working directly with the communities to support them. They are entrepreneurs, local businesses, or they are cash for work, all that is ongoing. This week, UNDP launched a new crisis academy, which currently comprises of the six campuses and we are expanding further. This comes from our recognition that we need to continue to be fit for purpose to respond to the complexity of the crisis of the day. We need to be crisis ready in Asia and we need to bring all forces together.