Greetings! It is a deep personal pleasure for me to welcome you to a Criterion advisory board as a new member.
These boards are made up entirely of our close friends and allies. For us, those words are actually a conjunction… both a friend and an ally. You have been invited to join because you already ARE a valued friend and ally of Criterion Institute. You are aligned with our overall vision of a world where finance is widely used as a tool for social change.
You have been a collaborator, a thought partner, and a loyal critic in the ongoing work of analyzing and challenging the power dynamics in finance that reinforce inequities. You help us make the powerful system of finance accessible to investors, governments, and civil society organizations that want to make a difference. You put our ideas to work in the world. We depend on you as friends and allies.
Please review the introductory resources below.
In West Africa, Trade Lenda’s approach confirms that there are financial actors willing to understand and work within informal systems. This case study explores Trade Lenda’s advanced practices in localization in more detail.
This Welcome Video is for New Advisory Board Members Only
This framework for financing the prevention of gender-based violence offers a shared way of understanding how financial systems themselves shape the conditions in which gender‑based violence persists. It translates established GBV prevention logic into a form that is legible and usable by financial decision‑makers, while remaining grounded in the realities of GBV work.
