Investing in Women launches RISE Fund to assist women’s SMEs in South East Asia
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Investing in Women has launched the RISE Fund – Responsive Interventions Supporting Entrepreneurs – to assist in the recovery of women’s SMEs in the South ...
Doubling down on Gender Lens Investing: What can investors do right now in the face of the COVID-19 crisis?
As the world economy grapples with unprecedented shocks during the COVID-19 crisis, many investors, philanthropists and development finance institutions (DFIs) are pouring efforts into creating the best possible strategies for ...
The influence of urban millennials on gender norms
When women’s economic empowerment programmes are challenged by gender norms, as is already happening in the response to COVID-19, it should not be the end of the road. Instead, ...
Gender equality at work: South East Asia’s other hurdle
Across the ASEAN region, countries and companies have been engaging in the equality debate for several years. Investing in Women has been working closely with companies in four countries to ...
Gender Smart Investing: the US$4.5t opportunity Singapore can leverage
In its report on Investing in Women, the IFC presents quantitative evidence of the rewards. In Indonesia, ECOM Agroindustrial Corp.– one of the world’s largest coffee traders – boosted productivity ...
Addressing the gendered impacts and economic implications of COVID-19
Since the first suspected case was reported to the World Health Organization in December 2019, COVID-19 has become a global pandemic, infecting close to 700,000 people and resulting in more than 30,000 deaths ...