Moving the dial on gender-smart investing: why our new guide focusses on the ‘how’
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November 22, 2020
“It’s about investing in women entrepreneurs; it’s financial inclusion for women; it’s getting more women into boards; it’s about better working conditions for women”.
These were some of the responses fund managers gave us when asked what gender-smart investing is during workshops run by CDC and IFC for the past few years. The reality is that gender-smart investing (‘GSI’ or otherwise referred to as ‘gender-lens investing’) is about all of these activities and more. It’s an investment strategy that seeks to intentionally and measurably use capital to address gender disparities between women and men and to better inform investment decisions.
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