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Partnering with SheEO to Advance Process Metrics
Building on a collaboration between Criterion Institute and SheEO in the Money & Power podcast series, our team is partnering with SheEO to produce a set of unique process metrics that analyze power dynamics for the organization. SheEO is a global leader in the field of gender lens investing for their approach in supporting ventures led by women and non-binary people using an ecosystem-based model that highlights the value of radical generosity and building trust across all aspects of the investment process. We will capture the groundbreaking work that SheEO has proactively done to integrate considerations of power into their investment relationships and processes to develop a case study in how to operationalize process metrics. For more information on Criterion’s work on process metrics, check out our online resource.
Seeing Opportunity in COVID-19 Crisis and Disruption
In responding to the unique challenges posed to market systems in the Pacific Islands region due to COVID-19, Pacific RISE convened a working group of organizations in the process of designing funds to finance SMEs in the Pacific. Criterion was invited to the group to advise, support, and facilitate the process. Over months of research and participation in biweekly working group calls, our team constructed a temporal framework for responding to the crisis that includes different needs of SMEs at the response, recovery, and “new normal” stages that incorporate a gender and power lens to “build back better.” The efforts of the working group, funded by the Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), are documented on the Pacific RISE website.
Gender and Infrastructure: An Emerging Focus for the Fall
In our July newsletter, we announced our partnership with Convergence Blended Finance. We are now excited to share the culmination of this work in our newly released white paper, Gender as Material to Infrastructure Projects: Reaching Better Outcomes by Applying a Gender Lens from Project Inception. As infrastructure emerges as a major focus of government stimulus in COVID-19 economic recovery, the Power of Policy program is embarking on several related projects this fall, including a partnership with UNICEF on addressing gender-based violence risk in infrastructure, a policy brief with DFAT’s gender branch on applying a gender lens to climate infrastructure investments, and follow-up from the cross-program effort at Criterion’s Convergence XVII convening where infrastructure was a major theme.
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