A Toolkit to track Gender Diversity at your workplace
Know that gender diversity is good for business. Creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce makes good business sense, positively impacting your bottom line. Diverse leadership teams boost innovation. Research by McKinsey shows that more gender-diverse companies do 15% better financially and companies with greater ethnic and racial diversity have 35% greater financial returns. […]
The State of Women’s Economic Rights Worldwide
While significant progress has been made over time, women still face entrepreneurship and employment barriers. In fact, on average around the globe, women have just three-quarters of the legal economic rights granted to men. Equal opportunities are important not only from a human rights perspective, but also from an economic perspective. When women are able […]
Meet the Women that make up our Global Leadership Network
We search the world for women leaders with daring vision for change, and partner with her to make that vision a reality. Read More here: here
Survey to explore growth barriers faced by Female Entrepreneurs in East
Despite experiencing capital and cultural constraints women continue to pursue entrepreneurship as a path to financial freedom for themselves and their families and in doing so have found innovative ways to keep their businesses running. This research is unique as it is one of few studies that looks at women entrepreneurs from a regional perspective, […]
Emerging Market Small & Growing Business Capital Provider’s Survey Results
To better understand impact of COVID-19 on small and growing businesses and the local capital providers that support them, the Collaborative for Frontier Finance, with the support of Visa Foundation, conducted a survey of capital managers that target SGBs in emerging markets. The survey is a snapshot of this critical sector pre- and post-COVID-19 in […]
Closing the Gaps – Finance Pathways for Serving the Missing Middles 2019
The Collaborative for Frontier Finance and its founding members have produced a follow-up report to the “Missing Middles: Segmenting Enterprises to Better Understand Their Financial Needs” which identified four distinct families of SGBs each with diverse characteristics and external financing needs. The new report: “Closing the Gaps: Finance Pathways for Serving the Missing Middles” identifies […]
The Missing Middles – Segmenting Enterprises to Better Understand their Financial Needs
This report aims to help investors, intermediaries, and entrepreneurs better navigate the complex landscape of SGB investment in frontier and emerging markets. Segmenting the SGB market into multiple “missing middles” will help more effectively diagnose the distinct financing needs and gaps faced by different types of enterprises – and in turn, will enable the industry […]
Key Insights from the Latest Gender Lens Investing Report
Much like the larger umbrella of impact investing, gender lens investing — investing to generate financial returns and a positive impact on women — continues to grow. Exactly how big is this field, and how fast is it growing? Project Sage 3.0 has these answers. It is the latest report that collected data through 2019 […]
Funding women entrepreneurs: How to empower growth
“Funding women entrepreneurs: How to empower growth”, prepared by the joint EIB and European Commission InnovFin Advisory, provides a sound market overview of the funding landscape for women-driven businesses. It assesses the access-to-risk-capital conditions for these firms and analyses trends in venture capital funding for women-led and women-founded companies in the EU, the United States […]
10 ways to redesign venture finance for a more inclusive post-COVID world
Impact investing was created to revolutionize capital markets. Instead, we are replicating them. This needs to change. The good news is, the structures we need to reform the capital system already exist. COVID provides an opportunity for impact investors to step into a leadership role within capital markets, as the amount of private and public […]