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 guide is designed to help women’s rights organizations (WROs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and other mission-driven groups understand innovative finance and engage more confidently in conversations about finance, funding, and investment.
This portfolio of insights was written to encourage different ways of seeing grassroots girls’ soccer from an investment perspective.
Fòs Feminista (Fòs) is a feminist asset owner and intermediary building financial infrastructure that shifts power and facilitates mission-aligned capital flows.
We spotlight FrontEnd Ventures as a demonstration of how the design of an investment thesis through a fundamental gender and power analysis can shift power in finance.
Criterion develops a set of reframes that give us a way to move from understanding the system to actively shaping it, building the intermediation and infrastructure needed for more lasting, aligned flows of capital.
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.
If we are to advance gender equality and social justice through finance, it is not enough to increase representation or move more capital. We must also address the underlying ways in which power, privilege, and bias operate in financial systems.
The West and East Africa Gender-Based Violence Due Diligence Tool is designed to equip investors with a structured way to identify, assess, and mitigate the material risks gender-based violence (GBV) poses to their investments, particularly within the sociopolitical contexts of West and East Africa.
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