Welcome, everyone! Thank you for joining us for today's webinar ‘The Business Case for Integrating a Gender Lens into Private Sector COVID-19 Recovery Plans (Asia-Pacific)’ with UN Women, BSR and Unilever. This will be a 90-minute interactive session on how companies can use the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) as guidance for their COVID-19 recovery plans to ensure gender-responsive measures both during and beyond the crisis. This session will also take you through UN Women’s newly-launched COVID-19 and Gender Rapid Self-Assessment Tool that is now available at https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2020/05/covid-19-and-gender-rapid-self-assessment-tool.

Our guest speakers today are Robert Candelino, Chief Executive Officer of Unilever Thailand, and Anna-Karin Jatfors, UN Women Deputy Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific,You’ll also hear from Katja Freiwald, who is WeEmpowerAsia Regional Programme Manager at UN Women, and Annelise Thim, Women's Empowerment Manager from BSR.If you have any questions during the presentation, please type them into the chat box in your Zoom control panel. We’ll bring them up during the presentation and we will also have time for questions towards the end.

Hello everyone. Keep safe. From the Philippines

Hi, this is an interesting one, hope the slides will be shared . thank you

You can download the pdf guide and actual tool here: https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2020/05/covid-19-and-gender-rapid-self-assessment-tool

Can we request for all the presentations, please. These are very useful in our advocacy and engagement with the private sector. Thank you.

Yes, all presentations and links to tools and resources will be sent to all registered participants following the webinar

Thank you so much.

Thanks UNWomen, please kindly circulate the powerpoint presentation as well.

Thank you so much UN Women, BSR, Unilever. This is indeed very timely. Alignment of gender lens and advocacy will form stronger part of business recovery.

Bye and keep safe