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4 ways investors can help women entrepreneurs thrive by adopting a gender...
In this short article, World Economic Forum outlines four ways investors can empower women entrepreneurs by adopting a gender lens approach to investing, drawing on lessons... -
Making Finance Work for Women (MFWW) Podcast Ep. 13: Making History – The...
This episode of the Making Finance Work for Women podcast explores the groundbreaking Global Gender-Smart Fund (GGSF), the largest gender lens fund in history, with Ruurd... -
Making Finance Work for Women (MFWW) Podcast Ep. 5: Gender Lens Investing: A...
This episode of the Making Finance Work for Women podcast explores gender-focused investment strategies and their role in ESG investing, with a focus on social impact. Sonja... -
The Gender Performance Checklist Guidance from a gender-intentional investor
This report and checklist draws on rich insights from six Gender Performance Studies (GPS) that Women’s World Banking Asset Management (WAM) conducted on their portfolio... -
Gender Lens Investing: Driving Financial Returns and Social Impact
This short blog by Women’s World Banking explains what Gender Lens Investing (GLI) is, how it works, and the experience of WWB Asset Management (WAM), which has invested... -
Caring for Tomorrow: A Guide to Investing in the Care Economy
The U.S. Care Economy faces growing demand due to demographic shifts yet, it remains underfunded and overlooked by investors and policymakers. This white paper highlights... -
Applying a Gender Lens to Climate Investing: An Action Framework
Women in Finance Climate Action Group (WIFCAG) led the development of this framework by reviewing existing gender specific and climate specific frameworks and data sources,... -
The Case for Investing in Women Entrepreneurs
This case study highlights the importance of investing in women entrepreneurs to build equitable, resilient, and prosperous economies in the face of global disruptions such as... -
Women Changing Finance Podcast
The podcast "Women Changing Finance", hosted by Krisztina Tora, is about the people reshaping finance for the better. Through real-life examples and deeply personal stories,... -
Bringing a Gender Lens to Technical Assistance: New Research Reveals the...
This blog, published on Next Billion, outlines G-SEARCh and WDI’s research to understand the financial benefits and other business outcomes of their TA engagements, the social... -
GSEARCH Case Study: Sanergy - Ag Training
This case study examines a program implemented by Sanergy, a social venture in Kenya, from April 2021 to 2022. The program focused on providing gender-smart technical assistance... -
GSEARCH Case Study: PowerGen - Renewable Energy
This G-SEARCh consortium case study details PowerGen Renewable Energy's gender-focused marketing campaign in Sierra Leone, which aimed to encourage existing customers,... -
GSEARCH Case Study: Nova Coffee - Climate Change
This case study presents gender-smart technical assistance that Root Capital provided to Nova Coffee with respect to training coffee farmers on practices to mitigate or adapt to... -
GSEARCH Case Study: INSOTEC - Gender-focused Marketing
This case study examines a gender-focused marketing campaign by INSOTEC, an Ecuadorian microfinance institution, to promote a medical and dental assistance product among its... -
GSEARCH Case Study: Digicon - Mentoring and Leadership
This case study presents SEAF's Gender-smart technical assistance (TA) to Digicon Technologies Limited, an outsourcing company in Bangladesh that offers business processing... -
Business and Social Outcomes of Gender-Smart Technical Assistance Activities...
This research by G-SEARCh consortium measured the effectiveness of seven types of gendersmart technical assistance (TA) activities provided to 21 small and medium enterprises... -
G-SEARCH tested tools & approaches for gender lens investing
A how-to guide that shares tools and approaches used by the Gender-Smart Enterprise Assistance Research Coalition (G-SEARCh), a consortium of six like-minded impact investors,... -
G-SEARCh Social and Financial Performance Indicators
The Gender-Smart Enterprise Assistance Research Coalition (G-SEARCh) is a coalition of six impact investors committed to building the business case for investing with a gender... -
Project Sage 4.0
This is a global scan from 2021 of gender lens private equity, venture capital, and private debt funds, and key findings on the current state of the field. As with the three... -
Family Bank Case Study: How A Kenyan Commercial Bank Is Expanding the Share...
This case study describes Family Bank's journey in Kenya to improve gender equality through its business operations– often referred to as “applying a gender lens”. It details...