We invite you to explore the insights and ideas we’re developing, resources and tools we’ve created, media where our work has been amplified, and upcoming events we will be hosting or attending.
Resources
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Gender-Based Violence Risk Score
This innovative GBV Risk Score methodology and tool, created in partnership with Equilo and with support from UNICEF, enables...
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The Framing Makes the Field – How we research gender lens investing matters
The Framing Makes the Field – How we research gender lens investing matters By Arianna Muirow Observing the...
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A Roadmap for Private Investors: Investing to Address Gender-based Violence
By Joy Anderson, President and Founder of Criterion Institute and Teresa Wells, Managing Director and Partner at Tiedemann...
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Roadmap for Christian Denominations to Use Finance to Reduce Gender-based Violence
Over the last few decades, there have been significant innovations in faith-based investing. However, social investment strategies by Christian...
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Gender-Based Violence: A Hidden Indicator of Political Risk
Analyzing a market’s political stability and volatility is core to investment risk analysis and decision-making about where and how...
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Pacific Possibilities: Designing Better Financial Vehicles for the Pacific
Pacific RISE was established by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2016 to promote the...
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10 Points Why Gender is Material to Investments in Kenya’s COVID-19 Recovery
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports have emerged about the gendered aspects of its impacts in Kenya....
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Pacific RISE as a Case Study of Gender Lens Investing: Influences on the Field
Pacific Readiness for Investment in Social Enterprise (Pacific RISE) is a pilot initiative of the Australian Department of...
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A Blueprint for Faith-Based Organizations on using Finance as a Tool for Social Change
The Blueprint is a document about social change, written for change makers. The focus of this Blueprint is to...
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Translation at the intersection of gender and finance: Recommendations for improving analysis in gender lens investing
Gender lens investing has become increasingly dominant within sustainable and impact investment approaches in Australia and globally over...
News
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Reflection: Making Gender-Based Violence Material to the World of Finance
“But I’m not sure how that’s truly material.” This is a refrain we hear constantly when we talk to...
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Growing the Field: Finance and gender experts brought together in Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia, 2 February 2018 – Over 70 investors, business and finance leaders, and gender experts from Southeast Asia came...
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Reflection: Gender Lens Investing Field-Building Event in Jakarta
This re-cap of the gender lens investing field-building event hosted in February by Investing in Women partners was contributed...
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Reflection: Finance as a Tool to Address Gender-Based Violence Workshop, January 22-23, 2018
This was contributed by Nina Weissberg. Nina Weissberg, CEO of Weissberg Investment Corp (WIC), guides a diverse portfolio of long-term real...
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Congregational Stories: Lending, Learning, Leading
More than two years ago, The Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) in Ruxton, Maryland, launched its Micro-Lending Program....
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Audio: Interviews on Gender Lens Investing and Public Equities
As part of our ongoing sponsored research project into gender lens investing and public equities, we interviewed two of...
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Video: Why Develop an Investment Thesis?
Criterion Institute’s Joy Anderson, Pacific RISE impact investing lead, shares why Pacific RISE is developing an investment thesis.
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Video: Pacific RISE and Gender Lens Investing
Pacific RISE will use gender lens investing to incorporate gender into financial analysis to improve investments and promote equitable...
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Three gender-lens investing truths we learned developing an impact strategy in the Pacific
This article by Criterion founder Joy Anderson shares some early lessons learned from developing an investment thesis for the...
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SOCAP 2016 and Gender: Something’s Gotta Give (ImpactAlpha)
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Events
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Our Impact and Learning: Criterion’s Year-end Partner Convening
Criterion Institute invites you to an interactive conversation with our network about what we have achieved and what we...
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Convergence XVIII: Financing the Reduction of Gender-based Violence
For the past three years, the Criterion Institute has been in deep collaboration with experts in finance, policymaking and...
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Your invitation to move ideas to action: Convergence, our reimagined digital conference.
For the past two years, Criterion Institute has been in collaboration with old and new friends about how we can use finance to address gender-based...
