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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... -
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... -
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... -
How Investing with a Gender Lens Can Benefit Sri Lanka’s Social and Economic Recovery
This paper was developed by Criterion Institute in partnership with the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) for the GRIT project (Growth, Resilience, Investment and... -
Advanced Practice in Gender Lens Investing
Drawing on inputs from various investors, ecosystem players, and civil society leaders in and outside the gender lens investing ecosystem, this framework explains how power,... -
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... -
The Incubation Network Gender Analysis Framework
The Criterion Institute and The Incubation Network (TIN) have collaborated here to create a Gender Analysis Framework (GAF), a practical tool for investors and program designers... -
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...