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How to Engage Finance to Enable Survivors of Violence to Build Economic and Financial Freedom

December 16, 2020

Gender-based violence has significant consequences for the health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, businesses, states, and countries.

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A Framework for Screening Portfolios for Risks Posed by Gender-Based Violence

December 15, 2020

Criterion Institute, in partnership with Christian Super, has developed a framework for how gender-based violence poses an investment risk—and a draft tool for assessing the investment risk to public equity portfolios as a result of gender-based violence.

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Gender-Based Violence Risk Score

December 9, 2021

This innovative GBV Risk Score methodology and tool, created in partnership with Equilo and with support from UNICEF

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Approaches for Investing to Address Gender-Based Violence: Thematic Strategies

This excerpt from Criterion and Tiedemann Advisors’ Roadmap for Private Investors: Investing to Address Gender-based Violence looks at how investors in private markets who aim togenerate positive impact while also generating market-rate returns canintegrate a GBV lens into investments in other themes.

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Approaches for Investing to Address Gender-Based Violence: Catalytic Strategies

This excerpt from Criterion and Tiedemann Advisors’ Roadmap for Private Investors: Investing to Address Gender-based Violence looks at how investors in privatemarkets who are willing to apply patient, flexible, risk-tolerant capital canpursue positive GBV outcomes.

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Approaches for Investing to Address Gender-Based Violence: Values Alignment

This excerpt from Criterion and Tiedemann Advisors’ Roadmap for Private Investors: Investing to Address Gender-based Violence looks at how investors in public markets, particularly in passively managed public equity or fixed income portfolios, can align their values with their investments via sector and company exclusions.  

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Approaches for Investing to Address Gender-Based Violence: ESG Integration

This excerpt from Criterion and Tiedemann Advisors’ Roadmap for Private Investors: Investing to Address Gender-based Violence looks at how investors in public equities and fixed income can integrate GBV considerations into existing ESG approaches to identify risks and opportunities that would impact the financial return of the investment.

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Addressing Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in the Private Sector

The GBV Risk Score tool, developed by Equilo, Criterion, and UNICEF, enables project planners and investors to prepare to address GBV in their work from the start. It provides extensive, easy to understand GBV risk data and analysis by country and sector across nearly 200 gender equality domains and includes automated action planning so that analysis can more easily be turned into action.

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Mitigating the Risks of Gender-Based Violence: A Due Diligence Guide for Investing

This toole nables investors to identify and mitigate the risks of GBV as part of their standard due diligence processes. It highlights post-Covid patterns of violence and response.

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Roadmap for Development Finance Institutions

This Roadmap lays out 4 strategies for DFIs to incorporate GBV risk assessment and mitigation as well as GBV prevention and survivor support lenses into their investments.

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Roadmap for Christian Denominations to Use Finance to Reduce Gender-Based Violence

This Roadmap provides ways for local congregations, church finance leaders, social ministries and educational institutions, political advocates, and thought leaders across Christian denominations to ensure their involvement in financial systems incorporate a GBV lens.

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Tool: GBV Risk Score

The GBV Risk Score tool, developed by Equilo, Criterion, and UNICEF, enables project planners and investors to prepare to address GBV in their work from the start. It provides extensive, easy to understand GBV risk data and analysis by country and sector across nearly 200 gender equality domains and includes automated action planning so that analysis can more easily be turned into action.

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Gender-Based Violence: A Hidden Indicator of Political Risk

This article outlines an approach for how investors can incorporate data about gender-based violence to better assess potential political instability in different markets.

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How to Engage Finance to Enable Survivors of Violence to Build Economic and Financial Freedom

Violence tends to have lifetime financial consequences for survivors. This article presents 3 strategies for using systems of finance to build the economic health of survivors of violence. These strategies span actions that can be taken by business, investors, governments, and social change actors.

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National Australia Bank NAB Assist Case Study

This case study looks at how an Australian bank instituted a program related to supporting clients who were experiencing family violence. In addition to unlocking social value for customers, the bank saved over $70M in its first year.    

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A Framework for Screening Portfolios for Risks Posed by Gender-Based Violence

This report summarizes Criterion’s research on how investors in public equities can approach screening portfolios for the risks posed by GBV.

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Reinterpreting Data to Assess the Risk of Gender-Based Violence in Public Equities

This short paper provides a way to apply a GBV lens to analyze existing datasets to better understand companies’ practices and culture related to equity and safety.

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Strategies for Shareholders and Trustees: Trustees United

This coalition of trustees, which includes members of California’s largest pension fund, advocates for pension systems to actively work to address gender-based violence.  

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