Influencing development finance institutions and multilateral development banks to recognize gender-based violence as material to their infrastructure investments’ processes and investment decision-making.
Making direct investments into growth companies addressing gender-based violence in the safety sector to drive innovation.
Identifying alternative structures to finance the reduction of gender-based violence
Increasing the cultural power and influence of media and entertainment companies addressing the root causes of violence.
Creating standards and a framework that private market investors can use to reward and influence practices that mitigate violence and enable survivors to thrive.
Inviting private investors to imagine how to shift power dynamics within financial systems to finance the reduce the reduction of gender-based violence
Using a gender-based violence lens to analyze existing datasets to better understand a company’s practices and culture
Creating standards and an investment framework that enables public investors to screen companies for potential operational upside and reputational risk related to gender-based violence.
Criterion Institute, in partnership with Christian Super, has developed a framework for how gender-based violence poses an investment risk—and a draft tool for assessing the investment risk to public equity portfolios as a result of gender-based violence.
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