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Impact Investing
We partner with Impact Investors and ecosystem builders to expand market opportunities for women, with a view to incentivising and catalysing access to capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) - led by and responsive to the needs of women.
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Featured Report: Unlocking the Potential of Frontier Finance
This report from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), seeks to provide real, tangible solutions to impact investors to improve the lives of marginalised people across emerging and frontier markets.
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Influencing Gender Norms
We work with partners to positively shift attitudes and practices to support women in the world of work.
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Featured Report: Employees’ Perceptions of family-responsive workplace and productivity
This study aims to facilitate the development of more family-responsive workplaces that effectively meet the needs of employees and their employers in the Philippines. It presents the implications of family-responsive workplace policies on employee productivity in the country in terms of retention, advancement and performance.
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empowering women economically is not
only the right thing to do — it’s the smart
thing to do.The evidence is clear — women’s economic empowerment is critical to
economic growth. One of the best ways to grow economies and achieve
stronger communities is to empower women and improve their economic
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Workplace Gender Equality
We support Business Coalitions who work with influential businesses on shifting workplace cultures, practices and policy barriers to achieve workplace gender equality.
Investing in Women
What’s New
2019
Investment structures of impact investing partners
Ernst & Young Australia has been commissioned by IW to present case studies of four reputable global impact investors with ties in South East Asia: ...
2019
Is there a role for donors in helping change restrictive gender norms?
Reducing gender gaps and removing barriers to gender equality is good for the economic and social development of countries, communities and families. Governments across the ...
2019
Investing in Women Case Study Series: Capital 4 Development Partners
This case study is part of a series of case studies detailing IW’s blended finance structures with four reputable global impact investors with ties ...
2019
Investing in Women Case Study Series: Patamar Capital
This case study is part of a series of case studies detailing Investing in Women’s blended finance structures with four reputable global impact investors ...
2019
Investing in Women Case Study Series: Root Capital
This case study is part of a series of case studies detailing Investing in Women’s blended finance structures with four reputable global impact investors ...
2019
Investing in Women Case Study Series: SEAF Women’s Opportunity Fund
This case study is part of a series of case studies detailing Investing in Women’s blended finance structures with four reputable global impact investors ...
2019
Gender pay gap still exists in the Philippines—study
The Philippines is the only ASEAN country to make it to the top ten of the Global Gender Gap Index 2018—placing 8th. Despite the positive ...
2019
Report: Determinants of Female Labour Force Participation in the Philippines
A study released by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in the Philippines, has identified the factors affecting ...
2019
Milestones and small victories: Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Magna Carta of Women and marking progress for BPfA+25
It has been a decade since the Magna Carta of Women was passed, which presented the perfect opportunity for the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) ...
2019
Australian Diplomat Allaster Cox on the economic benefits of gender equality in Indonesia
Allaster Cox, Deputy Head of Mission of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, shares his views on workplace gender equality and closing the gender gap in ...