Begum Shamsun Nahar Keywords gender gender equality quality education Read more about Begum Shamsun Nahar Ms. Begum Shamsun Nahar, a Freelance Consultant as Social Scientist & Gender Expert; Mid-Term Review and Evaluation Expert; Resettlement Expert; Knowledge Development & Training Expert; as well as Lead Researcher of Social Survey (Sanitation and Socio-Economic Household Survey; Improved Cook Stoves End User Survey; Water and Sanitation Survey for Low-Income Customers Service Improvement Plan; etc.). She has more than 34 years of experience in policy analysis, project design and implementation as well as Mid-Term Review and Evaluation of Projects/Programs/NGOs.
Keiju Mitsuhashi Keywords gender equality women's empowerment sector training gender mainstreaming Read more about Keiju Mitsuhashi Keiju Mitsuhashi is Energy Director, covering Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Southeast Asia and the Pacific energy operations. Keiju has more than 25 years of professional work experience, including over 15 years in ADB. He has extensive experience in upstream to downstream activities of project financing covering, power generation, transmission and distribution systems.
Samantha Hung Keywords gender gender equality adb gender approach Read more about Samantha Hung Samantha Hung provides leadership for advancing gender equality across all aspects of ADB operations and knowledge work. She has over 20 years of experience in gender equality at project, program and policy levels in the Asia Pacific. Before ADB, she held various gender advisor and specialist roles for the New Zealand Agency for International Development, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, UNICEF, Australian Government Office on the Status of Women and UK Institute of Development Studies attached to the University of Sussex.
Sustainable Sanitation: How Do We Get There? Read more about Sustainable Sanitation: How Do We Get There? About 1.7 billion people in Asia face health hazards due to lack of proper sanitation. While multiple stakeholders across the region are taking the initiative to tackle sanitation and solid waste management, vastly increasing the coverage of wastewater revolution is needed to reach the goal of sanitation for all.
Keiko Nowacka Keywords gender development social development gender equality Read more about Keiko Nowacka Keiko Nowacka is a Senior Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development) in the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department at the Asian Development Bank. In this role she focuses, in particular, on women’s entrepreneurship and promoting the ADB’s gender mainstreaming mandate, including the gender transformative agenda in line with Strategy 2030’s Operational Priority 2.
Michaela Bergman Keywords gender equality private sector society poverty alleviation protection and empowerment of vulnerable groups human rights and labour Read more about Michaela Bergman A social anthropologist, working as a social specialist in the ESG field with over 20 years’ experience of working with a variety of Multi-lateral, financial Institutions, bilaterals, the Private Sector and civil society. Michaela Bergman's expertise and experience lies in both in policy and project related activities related to Gender, poverty alleviation, protection and empowerment of vulnerable groups, human rights and labour with diverse and varied stakeholders so as to achieve a common goal.