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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... -
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... -
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... -
Impact Gender lens Investment Training Programme
This “Impact Gender Lens Investing” Training Programme, offered by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), targets impact and mission-driven investors and... -
Sweef Capital Gender ROI™
The tool, developed by Sweef Capital, provides a common language around gender, and clear systems and processes with which to translate aspirations into superior financial... -
Diversity Matters Even More
For almost a decade, McKinsey has tracked data on the link between leadership diversity and financial performance. This report, based on the largest dataset yet (covering 1,265... -
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... -
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 Strategies in Investing: How European investment firms move from...
This report by the Esade Center for Social Impact investigates how European investment firms transition from awareness to action regarding gender strategies in investing,... -
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,... -
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-... -
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... -
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... -
ESG Toolkit for Fund Managers - Practical guidance for responsible investors...
British International Investment’s (BII) toolkit, shared on this website, provides guidance on integrating ESG considerations into the investment cycle of a private equity fund,... -
Pathways to Growth: Gender-smart business actions that work
Despite the robust evidence base, there are still too few concrete and relatable examples showing how change happens and the types of gender actions that can be effective for... -
Gender and Climate Finance Toolkit
This 2X Global toolkit helps investors, fund managers and other stakeholders apply a gender-smart lens to their climate finance qualified investments by explaining how to...