Series: Nutrition-Gender Webinar Series
Nutrition-Gender Webinar Series: Women’s empowerment and nutrition outcomes
4 September 2025

Why Join?

Learn how enabling women’s empowerment can lead to stronger nutrition outcomes and social protection programs. Gain practical tools and lessons to strengthen your projects and programs.  

Featured keynote speaker, Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), will share:  

  • Evidence and lessons from agriculture and social protection programs that combine nutrition and gender
  • Practical tool: Reach-Benefit-Empower-Transform framework for designing more inclusive initiatives
  • Reflections on implications for ADB operations 

About the Webinar 

ADB is scaling up investments in food and nutrition security across Asia and the Pacific. Led jointly by ADB’s Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Officer (AFNR) and Gender Equality Division (CCGE), this online dialogue series aims to bring together global thought leaders, national policy actors, and ADB teams to explore evidence and operational entry points for gender- and nutrition-sensitive investments. 

 

 

 

 

Program and Learning Materials
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome and Opening Remarks Yasmin Siddiqi, Director, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, ADB
Keynote Presentation Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator, International Food Policy Research Institute
Discussant Reflections Discussants: Eoghan Molloy, Senior Evaluation Specialist, Independent Evaluation Department
Amir Hamza Jilani, Senior Sector Specialist, Human and Social Development Sector Office, ADB
9:40 – 9:50 Question and Answer
9:50 – 9:55 Closing Remarks Samantha Hung Director, Gender Equality Division, ADB

Disclaimer

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Event Coordinator/s

  • Bimbika Sijapati Basnett
  • Tomoko Kato

ADB Organizer/s

  • Gender Equality Division
  • Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office

Topics

  • Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Gender Equality