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Women's Financial Inclusion Scorecard
The Women’s Financial Inclusion Scorecard developed by the National Bank of Ethiopia provides a structured framework for measuring and advancing gender equality within... -
Gender Finance Booklet: Financial Centres for Sustainability Network 2023
The Gender Finance Booklet, developed by UNDP’s Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) Network and UN Women, and written by lead authors, Delfina Monteverdi and Manita Ray,... -
Engendering fiscal space: Modelling alternative methods of financing...
This paper by UN Women explains how alternative policies to promote gender equality are likely to have different effects on the various metrics of gender equality, such as... -
Engendering fiscal space: A policy framework for financing gender equality
This paper presents a unified framework on how various macro-level economic policies and external finance strategies can be used to increase funding for gender equality... -
Empowering women, building sustainable assets: Strengthening the depth of...
This report reflects on various models and challenges of gender lens investing (GLI), along with challenges they pose to feminist agendas. Not all investing practices that are... -
Breaking the Gender Bias in Finance
Toronto Centre joined the global community in 2022 to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) by commemorating women’s achievements, reflecting on progress made and advocating... -
Bridging the Finance Gap for Women Entrepreneurs: Insights from Academic and...
This OECD report examines the issues and policy solutions used around the world to develop women’s entrepreneurship financing. It is aligned with the principles ofthe OECD... -
Financing Programs for Women’s Financial Inclusion and Access to Finance for...
This report presents the highlights from a survey directed to public development banks (PDBs) as part of the 2023 agenda of the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) Coalition on... -
Framing (and Reframing) Gender Key Messaging Guidelines
This report outlines language and terminology that is commonly used to frame conversations about gender lens investing. The purpose of laying out these frames is to make visible... -
What Enables Her Business to Grow: A New Segmentation Framework
Developed by ConsumerCentriX, the Argidius Foundation, Dutch Good Growth Fund, Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), this framework aims to help financial and non-... -
Gender-smart climate finance: the policy angle
This report by 2x Global explores the connection between gender and climate finance, focusing on the importance of gender-smart investments in the broader climate finance and...