Summary
The Investing in Women (IW) Gender Lens Investing Brochure presents an overview of Investing in Women’s work to build and strengthen the Gender Lens Investing (GLI) ecosystem in Southeast Asia. It highlights Investing in Women’s efforts to catalyse GLI in Southeast Asia by expanding access to capital for women-owned and -led small and medium enterprises (WSMEs). Since 2016, IW has worked with impact investors and ecosystem partners to deploy catalytic capital, strengthen gender-lens capabilities, and support institutional change within investment firms.
It outlines IW’s strategic interventions—such as blended finance models, the Innovation Window, and the IW Fund—and presents insights from implementation, partnerships with global networks, and impact stories from investors and entrepreneurs.
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