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Women's Financial Inclusion Scorecard
The Women’s Financial Inclusion Scorecard developed by the National Bank of Ethiopia provides a structured framework for measuring and advancing gender equality within... -
GEM 2022/2023 Women's Entrepreneurship: Challenging Bias and Stereotypes
This report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) analyzes women’s entrepreneurial participation across 49 economies, drawing on population surveys and national expert... -
Driving Growth and Improved Business Performance – The Opportunity of...
This report presents the findings from a four-year initiative by Shell Foundation and Value for Women (VfW), co-funded with aid from the UK government, to further assess the... -
Gender Finance Booklet: Financial Centres for Sustainability Network 2023
The Gender Finance Booklet, developed by UNDP’s Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) Network and UN Women, and written by lead authors, Delfina Monteverdi and Manita Ray,... -
Australia: Social bond issued by a commercial bank
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange with the support of Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment, this case study examines the National Australia... -
Argentina: Social bond issued by a social enterprise
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, this case study features two Social Bonds (each $1 M USD), issued in 2023 on the Bolsas y Mercados... -
Asia and the Pacific: Gender bond programme by a multilateral development bank
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange with the support of Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment, this case study highlights the Gender Bond Programme... -
Morocco: Social bond issued by a commercial bank
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange with the support of Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment, this case study highlights an innovative financing... -
Brazil: Sustainability-linked bond issued by a stock exchange
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, this case study highlights a $700 M USD sustainability-linked bond (SLB) for gender equality issued by... -
Sweden: Sustainability-linked bond issued by a global investment firm
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange with the support of Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment,this case study highlights 500 M Euro sustainability-... -
Finland: Sustainability bond issued by a development finance institution
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange with the support of Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment, this case study highlights a 75M Euro sustainability... -
South Africa: Sustainability-linked bond issued by an industrial company
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, this case study highlights a dual-tranche, ($25M USD and $45M USD) sustainability-linked bond issued by... -
Mexico: Social bond issued by a public development bank
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange with the support of Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment, this case study features two social bonds ($150 M USD... -
Tanzania: Social bond issued by a commercial bank
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange with the support of Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment, this case study features a $30 M USD social bond... -
Spain: Sustainability bond issued by a regional government
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange with the support of Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment, this case study features a series of sustainability... -
Case Study Series: Innovative Financing for Gender Equality via Bonds: Overview
This brief provides an overview of a case study series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, and supported by Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment. The series... -
Engendering fiscal space: Modelling alternative methods of financing...
This paper by UN Women explains how alternative policies to promote gender equality are likely to have different effects on the various metrics of gender equality, such as... -
Engendering fiscal space: A policy framework for financing gender equality
This paper presents a unified framework on how various macro-level economic policies and external finance strategies can be used to increase funding for gender equality... -
Scaling up innovative finance for gender equality and women’s empowerment
These case studies highlight UN Women’s pioneering work in advancing innovative finance solutions to close the gender financing gap and accelerate progress toward the... -
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...