Criterion Institute will hold an interactive discussion in November 2023 about our work expanding what is possible for using finance as a tool for transformative social change. From fostering a feminist financial imagination to creating a global system of standards for the field of gender lens investing, we will share insights coming out of our current programs and invitations to collaborate across a range of activities.
Gender lens investing has become increasingly dominant within sustainable and impact investment approaches in Australia and globally over the last few years.
The success of the field of gender lens investing is dependent on the elevation of translators and translation: individuals, organizations, and processes that facilitate understanding between gender and finance expertise.
In the world, there is a small, but mighty, cadre of people working to innovate in finance. They may not be doing deals every day, but they are shaping the activity, the ideas and the connections between people that form the field.
Impact investors, development finance institutions, and grassroots gender-basedviolence organizations co-creating solutions for how investment can shift exploitativepower dynamics in supply chains
Gender-based violence has significant consequences for the health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, businesses, states, and countries.
Investing in research on norms change can help investors better predict when gender-based violence moves from a chronic to an acute market risk
Developing and testing a methodology that values violence against women as an early indicator of state instability
Empowering impact investors to structure targeted gender-based violence informed investments and encouraging the coordination of their efforts to reduce gender-based violence in Kenya.
Leveraging finance to increase the political will of the Victorian governmentto achieve its policy goal of ending family violence by 2027.
Our work depends on an ever-expanding community of team members, advisors, donors, and other partners who help us achieve our mission.