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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...

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...

This toolkit provides investors with concrete recommendations and actionable strategies for enhancing gender inclusivity in enterprises supported by them. Furthermore, the...

This guide by ICMA, IFC, and UN Women provides practical guidance on how to use sustainable bonds to credibly access financing for projects and strategies that advance gender...

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...

GIZ’s Women Entrepreneurs Financing & Investment (We-FIT) toolkit has been designed to bring together evidence, approaches, and examples on how to address the financing and...

JEDI stands for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. This toolkit has been designed to encourage allocators, investment influencers and intermediaries across the spectrum...

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...

This article, by Palomo-Vadillo, Ortega-Larrea, Bordonado-Bermejo, and De-Pablos-Heredero, introduces and validates the GLIMETRICS framework, a measurement tool designed to...

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,...

This toolkit, developed by ENERGIA (International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy), Get Invest and Distill Inclusion, brings together evidence, approaches, guidance,...

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...

Due diligence is a standard process that all investors undertake when deciding whether and how to invest in a company. This guide, created by UNICEF and Criterion Institute, is...

This online training for investors explains the connections between Gender-based Violence (GBV) and investment decision making. It presents key concepts, explains how GBV is...

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...

This Toolkit, which accompanies the Women-owned/led Small and Medium Enterprise (WSME) Segmentation Report, provides a step-by-step guide, enabling local financial...

CERISE-SPI4 ALINUS (Aligning investors due diligence to the Universal Standards) is a social performance data collection and analysis tool developed by CERISE and the Social...

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...

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...

This brief by CDC Group (now British International Investment (BII)), outlines examples of gender-specific opportunities throughout the value chain, focusing on the segments in...