 Hubertropics is a CGI research program that aims to improve the lives of millions of farmers across Africa, Asia, and Central America, using an integrated systems approach and unique platforms of partnerships. These platforms, often known as innovation platforms or multi-stakeholder platforms, are spaces of learning and change. They bring together individuals who often represent organizations, who come together with different interests by working together towards a joint goal. Because of the systems focus, the partnership focus, and the platform focus of the human tropics, it is essential that we have a large group of champions who can lead and facilitate and implement such platforms. That's the main reason why we're holding this workshop here, bringing people from Asia, from Africa, from Central America, all together to discuss innovation platforms, to decipher their DNA, if you will, to see how they fit in the overall agricultural innovation system and look at monitoring and evaluation aspects. And our hope is that when they go back, they'll be more confident and more able to facilitate and to lead such platforms in all of the areas where they work. I think the key aim for me was to encourage people to think about different ways of agricultural innovation. So you have very technology-oriented approaches, you have very systems-oriented approaches, and within the human tropics, we want to promote systems-oriented approaches to innovations. Actually, I want to share what I know with the participants on how they can monitor and evaluate processes that are usually very uncertain and that have no clear objectives yet. It's a workshop that's focusing on really looking at what constitutes platforms and looking at the differences between research for development platforms and innovation platforms within the human tropics. The IMITATOX program is a program that's come out of its books to engage all the various stakeholders in the generation and development of technologies that will help improve the level of participle people. I see human tropics coming at the right time when there's a fatigue as far as doing research is concerned. The platform is a new thing in the world of development, agricultural development, innovation system. And it's about the things that we see as challenges are bordered around, you know, people looking at it as what is there for me, you know, how do I benefit from it? But it's taking time for them to understand that it's all about their level of system. So I think we are getting around it, but hopefully within a year or two they'll begin to see value in it. I'm going to give you a learning point. The first one is that we learn that the only permanent thing is change. So that's good. We learn a lot about using different tools to wrap it up, or is that of what the problems are? Scoping information from relevant stakeholders. We learn how to move people together, how you can carry out your role as a facilitator. I've been really stimulated by the different case studies that have come up, both from the participants and also by the case studies we did, for example, this morning. And because now when I go back to Centromeco and I can tell people, well, this is what happened. People come from different locations and different countries with different experiences and lessons. So you can see that there's cross-legging going on. A couple of aha moments that resonated well within the groups were looking at complexity and terming complexity as being part of the DNA of innovation platforms really helped a number of people sort of grasp the concept. Likewise, the constant evolving nature in that change is really the only constant that we have in this system is really also something that helps a lot of people connect with the topic and adapt their thinking. Well, I think one of the key things that's been happening is the exchange of the participants amongst themselves, the learning that's actually going on outside of the workshop itself. We have such a diversity here from across the globe and also at different stages of how they're working. So it seems to me the most important thing that's coming out is this exchange of ideas of learning beyond the workshop setting. I just hope that the capacity building will go down the ladder to all the relevant stakeholders in the implementation process of the project. Fantastic workshop.