Over the last three years, Criterion has worked to prove that finance can be a tool to address gender-based violence. These Roadmaps provide guidance on where we see the most significant opportunities and what needs to be done to advance those opportunities. This is not a comprehensive solution to address gender-based violence. Finance is but one tool in the broader work of ending violence. We seek to identify opportunities where engaging systems of finance can fit into the broader landscape of violence prevention and response efforts.
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Criterion has created this briefing to support civil society actors, donors, and others to analyze and identify how endowments might enable the use of systems of finance as formidable tools to bring about social change and advance social justice.
Growth, Resilience, Investment and Training (GRIT) is a six-year initiative funded by Global Affairs Canada to address the economic gap for women’s empowerment particularly in Northern Sri Lanka.
To support GRIT’s goal of building a gender-responsive entrepreneurial ecosystem, Criterion developed a portfolio of insights to expand thinking and perceptions around how finance could be used for social change.
Sri Lanka is currently in a phase of economic and social recovery following its severest crisis post-independence — a civil war followed by an economic crash.
As the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Sri Lanka takes shape, incubators and accelerators can play an important role by moving beyond a focus on specific entrepreneurs to a broader field-building or ecosystem approach.
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