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Translating between Gender and Finance for Increased Impact: Best Practices...
This brief report by World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and Criterion Institute explores the concept of "translation" in Gender Lens Investment (GLI), which involves... -
Bridging Gender and Finance: WUSC’S Approach to Inclusive Entrepreneurship...
This report by World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and Criterion Institute makes that case that while gender lens investing (GLI) is gaining momentum globally, there is a... -
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... -
How to Invest with a Gender Lens? A guide for investors in emerging markets
This 'How-to' Guide makes an important contribution by providing practical tools and resources for an investing community that urgently needs to address its diversity and... -
Gender Lens Investing: A Scoping Review from Theoretical Foundations to...
This scoping written by Freyja Vilborg Thorarinsdottir, and published in the journal, Sustainability, explores the dynamic field of Gender Lens Investing (GLI), examining its... -
Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration (GLIA) Toolkit 2.0
The GLIA toolkit is a guidebook for Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs) operating in Southeast Asian countries. It was developed to provide more support in line with the... -
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Signal
A tool that monitors asset managers’ firm-level progress—and potential—in achieving more diverse and balanced representation among their key decision-makers. Using our... -
Addressing Gender Equality in Impact Investing
Short blog-style article with three approaches investors can take to integrate gender lens thinking into their investments. -
Gender Lens Investing Series: Gender Data
This tool is part of a series of three tools developed by MIT D-Lab and Intellecap following a co-design sprint organized to address common challenges faced by impact investors... -
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... -
Gender Equity Assessment Rating (GEAR)
The Gender Equity Assessment Rating (GEAR) is a gender lens rating tool developed by Kiva that measures how financial service providers (FSPs) are incorporating gender equity in... -
Evolving the gender analysis in gender lens investing: moving from counting...
This paper in the Journal of Sustainable Finance examines the quality of the gender lens investing field’s underlying gender analysis to assess how a field built to redress... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 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,... -
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,... -
Case Study: Gender Smart Information Systems
This case study outlines how the ILU Fund equipped three participating companies with the tools and capacity to integrate an intersectional gender lens in the collection,... -
Ilu Toolbox: Forging Diverse, Inclusive and Equal Businesses
The Ilu Toolbox, created by Deetken Impact and ProMujer, in collaboration with USAID, is a comprehensive resource developed by the Ilu Women’s Empowerment Fund to help companies...