Gender & inclusion
Gender lens investing has a cornerstone position in our work. From our work with the impact community, we understand the practices, needs, and bottlenecks that investors face, fund managers and financial institutions regarding women empowerment.
Why
Helping you understand and manage your societal impact
Gender and inclusion have surged to the forefront of the impact investing agenda. Nevertheless, structural inequalities – across gender, race, class, disability, and ethnicity – persist. At the current rate of progress, the UN estimates that closing the equality gap may take decades. The financial sector plays a pivotal role in accelerating diversity and inclusion, but many organizations lack awareness of the actions they can take to empower women and marginalized groups. We help investors understand the rationale for integrating gender smart considerations into their decision-making and implement mechanisms that help them integrate a gender lens across their operations.
How
What makes our approach unique
Gender lens investing has a cornerstone position in our work, cutting across all our lines of work. For more than ten years, we have advanced this field through capacity building programmes, research and evaluations, impact analysis and diagnostics, impact monitoring and measurement frameworks. Our expertise includes designing gender lens investing frameworks and tools, facilitating trainings, conducting transaction and portfolio evaluations with a gender perspective, and performing gender impact diagnostics and analyses—ensuring alignment with the 2X criteria. We have successfully worked on these topics with financial sector clients, such as leading bilateral and multilateral development banks, fund managers, microcredit institutions, and banks. This broad foundation gives us insight into strategy, capacity, risk management, and product development. As a result, we are able to support a diverse range of clients in optimizing their interventions to achieve equitable impact.
What
The value of our gender & inclusion services
Our work reveals to clients the underlying dynamics, challenges and opportunities associated with fostering diversity within their organizations or portfolios. By providing insights and tailored strategies, we support clients in incorporating gender-smart approaches into their decision-making processes. This enables them to address relevant issues effectively, optimize the outcomes of their gender-related initiatives, and achieve equitable impact.
