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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

7. 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

8. 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