 My name is Hazaga Tagay, I work as a scientist in Erie, in a specific project called IPMS. In November 23, 24, 2010, we had the National Daily Forum organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, SMV, FAO, Land Rolex and Erie IPMS project in collaboration with Wageningen University in the Netherlands. As we are all aware, Ethiopia is at crossroads now. The government of Ethiopia, a number of NGOs and also the private sector are working together in various daily development activities. However, all these efforts lack coordination and appropriate leadership through partnership from different organizations. As a result, we felt that coordination is an issue, leadership is an issue and therefore we organized this national daily forum. We had a number of participants from various organizations, both with Zenitivia and outside Ethiopia. This includes government officials, mainly from the Ministry of Agriculture, development partners from Land Rolex, SMV, FAO and IPMS, farmers, daily farmers, cooperatives and unions, private daily producers, processors and traders. And also we had a very successful exhibition by about 26 participants of different organizations, mainly who provide inputs and services to the daily sector. The focus of the workshop was to exchange views and experiences on the current situation of daily in Ethiopia and to map out the future directions for enhancing the daily sector and its contribution to economic development in the country. Over 120 participants came. We had deliberations in the area of capacity building and research and the value chain, daily value chain development and also policies and institutional arrangements. On day two, we had a number of group discussions and eventually the outcome of the workshop provided an outline of recommendations which we call declaration of the workshop. And one of the key elements of the recommendations was to submit a proposal to the Government of Ethiopia on establishment of the Ethiopian Daily Board. We hope, looking forward, this will be taken up by the Federal Minister of Agriculture and it will be enacted to ensure daily development, promotion and regulation in the country.