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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Using Data and Machine Learning to Close the Gender Gap in DR Congo
This FINCA International blog explains how nuances within the broad segment of women clients affect women’s financial inclusion and how machine learning was used to create a... -
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... -
What Enables Her Business to Grow: A New Segmentation Framework
Developed by ConsumerCentriX, the Argidius Foundation, Dutch Good Growth Fund, Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), this framework aims to help financial and non-... -
The Boardroom Africa: Increasing women leaders in Africa
TheBoardroom Africa (TBrA) is the region’s leading organisation dedicated to promoting exceptional, diverse talent to board and executive positions and providing comprehensive... -
Veritas: Unlocking finance for women entrepreneurs in India
This case study focuses on Veritas Finance (Veritas), an Indian non-financial banking company (NBFC) with a mission to foster financial inclusion for micro, small and medium-... -
Becoming the bank of choice for women in Pakistan
This Case study highlights British International Investment (BII's) collaboration with Habib Bank Limited (HBL), Pakistan's largest commercial bank, to develop a Gender Action... -
A Data-driven Journey in Support of Women’s Financial Inclusion: Advans
This report by Advans demonstrates how a structured approach to gender-focused initiatives can yield significant results, even during challenging times like the COVID-19... -
Women and Equitable Growth in a Resource‑Constrained World: Unleashing...
This paper from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation emphasizes the need to reform development finance systems to ensure women entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa gain access... -
Gender-smart climate finance: the policy angle
This report by 2x Global explores the connection between gender and climate finance, focusing on the importance of gender-smart investments in the broader climate finance and...