Abena recently joined Scaling Up Nutrition Secretariat, as Gender Advisor. She has over 15 years of experience in infectious disease and maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition programming. Previously she worked as Lead/Product Owner - Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) for World Vision Canada, leading the development and implementation of the organization’s MEAL, Knowledge Management and Gender Equality, Empowerment and Human Rights frameworks. Abena also contributed to the development of the Gender Transformative Nutrition Framework (GTFN) and coordination of the GTFN coalition – a group of development actors and researchers committed to advancing gender-transformative approaches in nutrition.