This guide is for people who are attending the 2026 SVRI Forum with expertise in violence and no particular knowledge in finance. It does not ask you to become an investment professional. What it will do is enable you to hear the financing argument already running underneath the sessions you were planning to attend, and enter it on your own terms.

It aims to:

• Help organizations recognize where finance shows up in evidence, scale, sustainability and systems change conversations, even when it is not named explicitly
• Offer a simple orientation to common finance language, actors, and instruments organizations may encounter
• Support more grounded, respectful conversations between the field of civil society actors, investors, funders, and intermediaries
• Make it easier for organizations to ask informed questions, assess fit, and decide how they want to engage
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Other Resources You May Be Interested In:

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Framework for financing the prevention of gender-based violence

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

Roadmap for Development Finance Institutions: Strategies to Address Gender-based Violence

Blueprint: INGOs

Process of Creating a Methodology to Predict Gender-Based Violence Risk in Relationship to Financial Material Risks

Shifting Power Dynamics to End Sexual Exploitation in Kenyan Supply Chains

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