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Making Sustainable Finance Work for Women : A Practitioner’s Guide
A Practitioner's Guide developed by GIZ and the IFC-facilitated Sustainable Banking and Finance Network (SBFN) consolidating early experiences of emerging markets in designing... -
Gender-Smart Mobile Workforce Toolkit
This toolkit was developed by ALIVE Ventures and Briter to support companies linked to the mobile workforce economy in reducing gender gaps across their operations and value... -
Reducing Gender Gaps in the Mobile Workforce Economy
“Reducing Gender Gaps in the Mobile Workforce Economy” examines how gender dynamics affect women’s participation, retention, progression and value capture in mobile workforce... -
Mainstreaming Gender in Green Climate Fund Projects - A practical manual to...
A practical manual developed by the Green Climate Fund with UN Women to support the integration of gender equality into climate change interventions and climate finance. Aimed... -
Playbook: The Role of Financial Institutions in Responding to Domestic...
A practical playbook from Grameen Foundation on how financial institutions can recognize, prevent and respond to domestic financial abuse — a form of economic coercive control... -
Women in the Workplace Report 2025
The 2025 Women in the Workplace report by Lean In and McKinsey & Company builds on a decade of longitudinal data examining women’s representation, advancement, and workplace... -
Women in the Workplace Report 2023
This annual report by Lean In and McKinsey & Company analyzes data from hundreds of U.S.-based companies to assess women’s representation, advancement, and workplace... -
Making Finance Work for Women (MFWW) Podcast Ep. 13: Making History – The...
This episode of the Making Finance Work for Women podcast explores the groundbreaking Global Gender-Smart Fund (GGSF), the largest gender lens fund in history, with Ruurd... -
Making Finance Work for Women (MFWW) Podcast Ep. 5: Gender Lens Investing: A...
This episode of the Making Finance Work for Women podcast explores gender-focused investment strategies and their role in ESG investing, with a focus on social impact. Sonja... -
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... -
The Case for Investing in Women Entrepreneurs
This case study highlights the importance of investing in women entrepreneurs to build equitable, resilient, and prosperous economies in the face of global disruptions such as... -
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,... -
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... -
Gender-lens investment: The state of women in 2025
This report by UBS looks at the state of women in the world, seeking to understand the remaining barriers to attaining gender equality and progress thus far. It focuses on... -
Breaking the Gender Bias in Finance
Toronto Centre joined the global community in 2022 to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) by commemorating women’s achievements, reflecting on progress made and advocating... -
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... -
Bridging the Finance Gap for Women Entrepreneurs: Insights from Academic and...
This OECD report examines the issues and policy solutions used around the world to develop women’s entrepreneurship financing. It is aligned with the principles ofthe OECD... -
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... -
Financing Programs for Women’s Financial Inclusion and Access to Finance for...
This report presents the highlights from a survey directed to public development banks (PDBs) as part of the 2023 agenda of the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) Coalition on...