ADB Gender Technical Advisor Empowering Women through Inclusive Business 2nd Asia Inclusive Business Forum 2-3.30pm 17 February 2016 Sonomi Tanaka ADB Gender Technical Advisor 1

Tribute to Shireen Lateef Former Senior Advisor (Gender) Established gender mainstreaming operations system in ADB One of founders of MDB Gender Working Group Trained a number of gender specialists in Asia Pacific

Panel Objectives IB more likely to support women-inclusion? Driving factors for companies to support women’s empowerment How to move women’s empowerment beyond CSR to core business Challenges and opportunities Roles of other stakeholders (impact investors, gov’t)

Panel Speakers Isabel von Blomberg, Endeva Vijaybhasker Srinivas, Head of Process Control, Life Spring Hospitals, India Saud Ahmad Pasha, Director for Agribusiness, Engro, Pakistan Mara Chiorean, Executive Director, CSR-Asia, Hong Kong

Gender Mainstreaming in ADB Private Sector Operations Enabling policy environment through public sector operations Using project Gender Action Plan (GAP) as a tool Visualizing company’s gender commitments Gender targets to be monitored Inclusive Business good entry point for gender mainstreaming

Gender Action Plan: Ooredoo in Myanmar 5 million women in MYA by 2020 Jobs and training for 30,000 women (prepaid airtime sellers) “Geek Girls”: female technology graduates support Maymay App (application advising info on maternal and child health) Results assessment