Jean Saint-Geours sheds light on the multifaceted challenges women in rural Bangladesh face, including limited market access, inadequate nutrition, and climate change vulnerabilities. He presents the WB Resilience, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Improvement project (RELI), showcasing its large-scale impact through diverse initiatives. These encompass the development of village institutions and infrastructure, behavior change communication campaign, and financial resources pooling. Such efforts have empowered thousands of beneficiaries to enhance their livelihood, nutrition status and climate resilience simultaneously.

The third edition of the Knowledge Exchange Series follows the same format of pre-recorded experts’ videos to be viewed by participants prior to the engaging 90-minute dialogue session. Each session brings on a relevant, timely and vital theme around the nexus of nutrition, climate and agrifood system transformation. Building upon the previous series on India and responding to the demand from the practitioners in the South Asia region, this edition encompasses the challenges and solutions for the entire region. The series highlights innovations taking place in various countries of the region to present practical and actionable solutions on how to transform agrifood systems to address these concurrent and mutually reinforcing crises.