(Track 5: Digital Solutions and Innovation)
The session explores how indicators, analytical tools, and digital dashboards can strengthen nutrition sensitive decision making for governments, development partners, and investors. By showcasing methods to assess diet cost and affordability, the cost of inaction, and the ROI of nutrition sensitive interventions, it demonstrates how data can enhance the design of agriculture and food systems projects to better deliver nutrition outcomes.
Overall Moderator: Omer Zafar, ADB-AFNR
Welcome Remarks
Jiro Tominaga, ADB
Part 1. Cost and affordability metrics and using them
Moderator: Saule Baurzhan, Natural Resources and Agriculture Economist ADB-AFNR
- Enabling healthy diets for all, including the role of affordability
Lynnette Neufeld, FAO - The Fill the Nutrient Gap Approach
Saskia de Pee, WFP - Visualizing and analyzing CoAHD within the food system context
Stella Nordhagen, GAIN
Part 2. Inaction costs, ROI / cost effectiveness, and using them
Moderator: Dinesh Arora, Principal Health Specialist, ADB - HSD
- The Cost of Inaction Approach
Dylan Walters and Surabhi Mittal, Nutrition International - Return on investment (ROI) and Cost effectiveness of interventions
Purnima Menon, IFPRI - Translating data into economic arguments for nutrition investment
David Anthony Raitzer, ADB-EBRD
Questions & Answers
Moderator: Omer Zafar, ADB
Closing Remarks
Qingfeng Zhang, ADB
