 Good afternoon and thank you very much, Judith, for accepting our invitation to be together. My first question for you is that pillar five of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture Global Action Plan is about gender equality and equity related to artisanal small scale fisheries and aquaculture. What do you think are the main challenges facing women in the sector? So for me, what I would like to underline is a challenge is related to the whole issue regarding access by women in small scale fisheries and aquaculture and access is in all the areas including access to fish as a resource itself because this is the heart of everything, of the work that they are doing and without fish they are not able to access the market because they will not have any goods. So access to fish is really a challenge to them and other challenges related to this include poor or unhealthy working conditions that the women are facing but also access to finance, limited access to information, access to market and market information but also access to business skills which is really critical for them to be able to compete in the landscape around fish and other goods or food that are being produced. My second question to you is why can investing in capacity development for women in the small scale fisheries and aquaculture sectors have a big impact on the livelihoods and increase food security and nutrition for local communities? Capacity development activities are critical and for me if particularly they focus in building the organizations for women in small scale fisheries, I am the believer of collective action for women because if they work in these collaborative situations they have a huge potential to addressing the challenges that I've just mentioned, the challenges that women in small scale fisheries and aquaculture face and therefore capacity development in all areas for example in areas such as technology, areas of credit services, entrepreneurship opportunities, access to market, access to like information in all spheres, you know, skills and all the related knowledge is very, very important and vital in ensuring that women and their organizations, you know, play that important role of urgency to participate in decision and policy making processes. If these women are supported to build or to operate in these collaborative situations through their organizations they will be enabled to effectively participate in all forms of, you know, decision making as I said, policy making processes which are very, very important because if they are not there, meaning that even their views, their thoughts, their ideas, the issues that they would wish to send across to be incorporated in the policies they will not be there. So these all things affect their lives in their livelihoods and that's why it is really, really important. You've mentioned some factors that go into and help create the gender gap. So my next question is about this and what are some actions that organizations can take to incentivize governments to promote women's empowerment and policies that tackle the gender gap? Women in Fisheries play a significant role. They have a really important and crucial role in feeding our society, in educating the children in our communities, in ensuring that the families are healthy and so on and so forth and therefore this is really important that we are empowering ourselves when we need to advocate for collaboration between non-state actors and state actors in addressing these issues, in bridging this gender gap, in working with the women-led organizations. Why am I saying this? If we don't work together, it means we won't have really efficiency in trying to bridge this gap, but also having a clarity, a clear understanding of what these issues are unless we invite and embrace these women organizations working together with the government who are at the end of the day, the planners, those who are managing the budgets and implementation plans at the national level or the country level, I would say. And therefore, if I may give an example, recently, Tanzania, through the Ministry of Livestoken Fisheries, we launched a national steering committee for implementation of the international year of artisanal fisheries and aquaculture 2022. And this is an important step because you realize at the international level, we have an international steering committee and we are wanting to see international year celebrated worldwide, everywhere. So at this local level, at the international level, we need also some kind of coordination. And the good thing is the Ministry who is leading this process has opened their hands and has embraced collaboration with other non-state actors. And if I may give you another example, Emedo, the Environmental Management Economic Development Organization, the organization that I'm heading, we are working in support with the support from FAO HQ headquarters. And in collaboration also with the ministry responsible for fisheries in my country. We are supporting this national association of women in Moscow Fisheries in Tanzania to strengthen its base. So with this project supported by FAO, we are bringing together, mobilizing these women, informing about the national network, which is TALFA, Tanzania Women Fish Workers Association TALFA, that there is this opportunity. How do you feel coming together in this collective action so that the issues, the challenges that you are facing at this level could be amplified, could be brought into light so that at the end of the day, we are able to gather in our collective way to address, to support you, so that you are able to address these challenges. For the next question, I'd like to ask you, how can the international year of artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, YALFA 2022, and its supporters accelerate the process of achieving gender equality and equity? Yeah, thank you so much. You know, YALFA 2022 for me is really, really an opportunity. And it is an opportunity because it's giving attention globally to the women in Moscow Fisheries and aquaculture. Attention that was not there, YALFA is creating an opportunity. I would also like to give an example from our own organization, Environmental Management and Economic Development Organization, EMEDO. We are based in the Elec Victoria Basin. Our offices are just situated near a landing site, a very small landing site. But what are we doing with this small landing site? That has the capacity to accommodate just 20 landing, I mean, boats at one time, but still merely it supports women. And what do we do there? We use YALFA as an opportunity to create, you know, some kind of a dynamism with that community. In our office premises, we have an environmental resource center. This environmental resource center is also providing an opportunity for members of this community to come together and dialogue. And again, we are using YALFA as an opportunity, like, okay, this year is an international year of artists and officials and aquaculture. Please come and let's discuss together. What can we do together as a community to support these women who are engaging in responsible fisheries, but not just the women, but the BMUs here. How is the BMU functioning? What is giving us that push, the energy for this year is the international year. So we are using international year is like an excuse, but it's the opportunity, opportunity to bring the people together. That's why we are really, really keen to ensuring that we are using YALFA as an opportunity to continue raising awareness on the role played by small scale fisheries. And we are using our tool, which is the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small Scale Fisheries in the context of food security and proper television. And the good thing is, with the support of FAO, we've been able to end the ministry, we've been able to translate this into Kiswahili. And therefore, every community member can read through and benefit from all this. Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much. So you, for our last question, you mentioned just now that you're going to be launching the national initiative right around the time of International Women's Day. So thinking about this, as you know, the theme for International Women's Day this year is breaking the bias. I wondered what bias do you feel is the most important one to break for women working in small scale fisheries and aquaculture, and what impact do you think breaking this bias would have on improving the situation? Exactly. Breaking the bias, again, goes back to what I've said before, when it comes to the challenges. Breaking the bias. Look at the significant role that is played by the women, especially on the post-service section. Really big. For me, normally, I look at this single woman whose capital is only able to manage buying one bucket of fish per day. And when what she gets out of this, she would extract the money for feeding their family, taking them to school, meeting health needs, and everything else, food and everything. And then that capital remains its second back. Get it back to buying fish the following day so that they are able to continue with the business. And therefore, breaking the barrier, meaning it means that we need to really address these challenges that women in small scale fisheries face. We need to address the challenges of access. And this access for me, I say it in the capital letters, and I bold and I underline because it's access to all these other issues, access to fish and the resource, access to market, access to technology, access to information, access, access is my number one thing. And once this is done, it's going to have a significant impact. So this is what I really feel that breaking the barrier has to be in line with breaking all the challenges or the barriers to access regarding access to all the productive resources in the small scale fisheries, especially concerning women. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, Jennifer.