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Renew Capital: Driving Towards a Gender-Smart Economy in Ethiopia
This case documents Renew Capital’s ecosystem approach to gender lens investing in Ethiopia, combining investment facilitation, training, and market-building interventions.... -
Supivaa: Empowering WSMEs Through the Power of AI
This case highlights how Supivaa uses AI-driven tools to address one of the core constraints facing women-led SMEs (WSMEs): lack of access to finance. The model centres on... -
Series of GLI Case Studies: Canada Forum for Impact Investment and...
This series of brief case studies, developed by Canada Forum for Impact Investment and Development's (CAFIID's) Gender Lens Investing Community of Practice in 2023 and 2024,... -
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... -
Gender Lens Investing in Southeast Asia - A Snapshot of Progress in...
The report examines emerging GLI trends and insights in three countries, namely Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. These countries are leading the way for GLI investments... -
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... -
Impact-Linked Finance learnings
This report on Impact-Linked Finance (ILF), is based on Roots of Impact’s eight years of experience. It demonstrates ILF's potential across various financial instruments and... -
Disruptive Roles in Gender Lens Investing in Kenya
Plan International’s research provides an in-depth assessment of the gender lens investing market in Kenya. This report builds on existing research through consultations with... -
Gender Bonds: A Toolkit for the Design and Issuance of Gender Bonds in Africa
This Toolkit is intended as a resource for Gender bond issuers and investors. For public and private issuers in Africa seeking to direct capital toward social outcomes,... -
Empowering change: The rise and role of gender-focused bonds
This study, published jointly by the experts at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE)'s leading platform for sustainable finance, the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) and the 2X... -
An overview of the gender-focused bond market
In this study, the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) provides a detailed analysis of bonds with a gender component hereafter named "gender-focused bonds" listed worldwide. LGX... -
"Show Me the Impact!" Findings and insights from DFI gender portfolio evaluations
This brief by Kore Global synthesises recent evaluation findings to provide the first cross-development finance institution (DFI) evidence on whether and how gender lens... -
Gender Lens Investing Landscape - Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities in...
This is Kiva's 2021 survey of the emerging markets GLI landscape, through analysis of sector-wide microfinance data, and interviews of key industry stakeholders to identify gaps... -
Toolkit for Gender Lens Investing: A Case Study Based on SAMRIDH Blended...
This toolkit provides investors with concrete recommendations and actionable strategies for enhancing gender inclusivity in enterprises supported by them. Furthermore, the... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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)... -
Reimagining gender lens investing futures: Possibilities and perspectives...
This report comes ten years after the first Criterion State of the field of gender lens investing report in 2015, which aimed was to prove that gender mattered in investing.... -
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...