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Translating between Gender and Finance for Increased Impact: Best Practices...
This brief report by World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and Criterion Institute explores the concept of "translation" in Gender Lens Investment (GLI), which involves... -
How to Invest with a Gender Lens? A guide for investors in emerging markets
This 'How-to' Guide makes an important contribution by providing practical tools and resources for an investing community that urgently needs to address its diversity and... -
Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration (GLIA) Toolkit 2.0
The GLIA toolkit is a guidebook for Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs) operating in Southeast Asian countries. It was developed to provide more support in line with the... -
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Signal
A tool that monitors asset managers’ firm-level progress—and potential—in achieving more diverse and balanced representation among their key decision-makers. Using our... -
Gender Lens Investing Series: Gender Data
This tool is part of a series of three tools developed by MIT D-Lab and Intellecap following a co-design sprint organized to address common challenges faced by impact investors... -
Gender Equity Assessment Rating (GEAR)
The Gender Equity Assessment Rating (GEAR) is a gender lens rating tool developed by Kiva that measures how financial service providers (FSPs) are incorporating gender equity in... -
Evolving the gender analysis in gender lens investing: moving from counting...
This paper in the Journal of Sustainable Finance examines the quality of the gender lens investing field’s underlying gender analysis to assess how a field built to redress... -
Heading for Change Investment Toolkit & Guidance
Heading for Change is a donor-advised fund (DAF) making investments and grants to accelerate proven solutions to the climate crisis and advance gender equity. Their flexible... -
JEDI Investing Toolkit
JEDI stands for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. This toolkit has been designed to encourage allocators, investment influencers and intermediaries across the spectrum... -
Gender Data and Analysis
Drawing on a sample of recent publications, this updated FinEquity guide provides a starting point for understanding (i) where to start (what data is available at global,... -
Building the Business Case for Women’s Inclusive Financing in Last-Mile...
This toolkit, developed by ENERGIA (International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy), Get Invest and Distill Inclusion, brings together evidence, approaches, guidance,... -
Ilu Toolbox: Forging Diverse, Inclusive and Equal Businesses
The Ilu Toolbox, created by Deetken Impact and ProMujer, in collaboration with USAID, is a comprehensive resource developed by the Ilu Women’s Empowerment Fund to help companies... -
The Incubation Network Gender Analysis Framework
The Criterion Institute and The Incubation Network (TIN) have collaborated here to create a Gender Analysis Framework (GAF), a practical tool for investors and program designers... -
What Enables Her Business to Grow: A Practitioner Toolkit to Implement a New...
This Toolkit, which accompanies the Women-owned/led Small and Medium Enterprise (WSME) Segmentation Report, provides a step-by-step guide, enabling local financial... -
CERISE-SPI4 ALINUS (Aligning investors due diligence to the Universal Standards)
CERISE-SPI4 ALINUS (Aligning investors due diligence to the Universal Standards) is a social performance data collection and analysis tool developed by CERISE and the Social... -
Summary: Private Equity and Value Creation: A Fund Manager’s Guide to...
This is a summary of the report Private Equity and Value Creation: A Fund Managers Guide to Gender-Smart Investing, providing fund managers with a roadmap on how to strengthen... -
Private Equity and Value Creation: A Fund Manager’s Guide to Gender-smart Investing
Gender-smart investment strategies can help grow a company’s competitiveness, solidify its supply base, improve its human capital, and help build an overall enabling business... -
2x Criteria Reference Guide
This guide, updated June 2024, outlines the global standard for gender lens investing (GLI), used by companies and investors to assess and report on their alignment with 2X...