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Reverse Gender Gap in SME Finance?
This note explores a surprising trend in SME lending in Bangladesh: a reverse gender gap in access to finance. Using administrative data from BRAC Bank, the research finds that... -
Closing the Gender Finance Gap Through the Use of Blended Finance
IFC's Closing the Gender Finance Gap Through the Use of Blended Finance was produced to help public and private sector actors including governments, foundations, financial... -
Promoting Gender Equality through Performance-based Financial Incentives An...
This IDB Invest report aims to assess the impacts of Performance-Based Incentives (PBIs) within IDB Invest’s Blended Finance portfolio, with a focus on gender-related PBIs.... -
Delivering on the Promise of Gender Lens Investing (GLI) in Latin America...
This IDB Invest report explores the state of Gender Lens Investing (GLI) in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges of integrating... -
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... -
The Mobile Gender Gap Report
While the gender gap in mobile internet adoption had been closing steadily, in 2024, the gender gap in mobile internet adoption remained relatively unchanged from the previous... -
The Nature and Prevalence of Financial Abuse Among Microfinance Customers in Benin
Cerise+SPTF and Grameen Foundation collaborated in research to test a survey instrument designed to measure the prevalence of financial abuse. A phone survey, conducted with... -
InvestHER: Pioneering Gender-Responsive Climate Finance
This FinDev hosted Grameen Foundation blog describes the InvestHER Climate Resilience Bond (InvestHER CRB) and technical assistance facility, designed by the Grameen Foundation,... -
Common and Emerging Practices in Implementation of the Impact Principles
Hosted by GIIN, this new series of resources, Common and Emerging Practices in Implementation of the Impact Principles, provides an overview of the common, emerging, and nascent... -
In Focus: Gender and Impact Investing 2024
This Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) report highlights findings from its 2024 Impact Investor Survey of 305 organizations across 39 countries. It analyzes the progress... -
Women Entrepreneurs Financing and Investment (We-FIT) toolkit
GIZ’s Women Entrepreneurs Financing & Investment (We-FIT) toolkit has been designed to bring together evidence, approaches, and examples on how to address the financing and... -
Unleashing the power of gender-smart climate investing in developed markets
Unleashing the power of gender-smart climate investing in developed markets, produced by GenderSmart, is a series of case studies illustrate the ‘what, why, why now and how’ of... -
Gender Lens Investing State of the Field 2022
Findev Canada's GLI State of the Field 2022 is designed not only to shine a spotlight on the challenges and opportunities in the field but also to celebrate the vast number of... -
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... -
A Guide to Investing in First-Time Women and Diverse Fund Managers
This guide, produced by GenderSmart’s First-Time (Women and Diverse) Fund Managers Investing with a Gender Lens Initiative, is a tool for asset allocators and advisors, as well... -
Gender & Climate Investment: A strategy for unlocking a sustainable future
While sustainable investing is no longer a novelty, investment strategies that take an integrated gender and climate lens to investment decisions are still relatively new.... -
Gender Lens Investing 2025
This report presents Parallel Finance’s 17th quarterly review of gender lens and sustainable investing, marking their fifth year-end summary of data and developments in (a)... -
Developing an index for measuring gender lens investing in organizations:...
This article, by Palomo-Vadillo, Ortega-Larrea, Bordonado-Bermejo, and De-Pablos-Heredero, introduces and validates the GLIMETRICS framework, a measurement tool designed to... -
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,... -
Bridging the Gender Gap in Access to Finance for Women Entrepreneurs through...
Drawing on recent publications and industry insights, this FinEquity Knowledge Guide brings together resources to 1) Understand the untapped opportunity that WMSME’s present for...