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Mar 06, 2025
Making a Breakthrough for International Women's Day

A small intervention at the right point in time can have a huge impact on society. That's the message from a new film showcasing the work of Breakthrough, an innovation in GIF's portfolio that works to address gender inequality and...

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Dec 19, 2024
Advancing financial and digital inclusion for women

In June 2024, GIF was pleased to announce that we had joined the 2X Challenge, a multilateral coalition of public and private sector investors who have pledged to invest US$20 billion in women’s economic empowerment over the next three years...

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Dec 12, 2024
Financing for Gender Equality: sharing insights from AWIEF

The Africa Women Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) is an award-winning non-profit organisation focused on empowering women entrepreneurs across Africa to grow their businesses and reach their full potential. Granted Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social...

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Nov 04, 2024
SOCAP 2024: Systems Change through Impact Investing

The GIF team recently attended SOCAP, one of the world’s largest gatherings for social impact investors working to solve the world’s biggest challenges. The convention brought together an incredible mix of people from around the world including funders and innovators...

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Oct 08, 2024
What we can learn from New York Climate Week

Members of the GIF team recently attended Climate Week New York which took place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. It was an action-packed week with inspiring conversations and high-level meetings throughout the city. Although our work to...

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Aug 29, 2024
How educating women helps eradicate poverty

The development community has long recognised that women’s education is a crucial prerequisite for eradicating poverty. The World Bank highlighted this in 2018, when they estimated that limited educational opportunities for girls and barriers to completing 12 years of education...

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Jun 17, 2024
New 2X Challenge Announces US$20 Billion Target for Investments for Women

The Global Innovation Fund has joined a multilateral coalition of public and private sector investors which has pledged to invest US$20 billion in women’s economic empowerment over the next three years, under the 2X Challenge.The announcement came at the close...

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Mar 06, 2024
Investing in what works to improve women’s lives

Over the last 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in evidence about what works to improve the well-being of vulnerable populations. Yet questions remain about how to improve women’s lives effectively, at scale, and where investments in gender-related...

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Aug 10, 2022
Measure smarter not harder: five ways innovators can rise to the challenge of measuring gender equality and empowerment

At the Global Innovation Fund, we are committed to providing women and girls with the freedom they need to succeed. One of our core objectives is enhancing the agency of women and girls and we see applying a gender lens...

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Apr 06, 2021
Venture Support for Gender Equality

Previous blogs throughout March have illustrated how GIF looks at the issues around gender equality in international development and the tools we use to support our decision-making, drawing on examples of gender transformative investments in our portfolio. In the latest...

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Mar 29, 2021
Embedding a Gender Lens into the Investment Process

GIF’s investment mandate is focused on finding and funding innovative ventures and solutions that have high potential to be impactful on the lives of the poor, scalable to reach millions and cost effective. Applying these criteria has meant that GIF’s...

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Mar 24, 2021
Gender in Practical Impact - Case Study

Is it desirable – or even possible – to place a value on improving women’s and girls’ agency? Yes to both, according to GIF. We think that funders and policymakers implicitly place a value on women’s agency when they choose...