These deeply-researched roadmaps articulate in-depth strategies for how asset owners, asset managers, and nonprofit organizations can mobilize capital towards GBV. Investors and funders can partner with Criterion to amplify these strategies via events, tools, and communications to move actors from intent to action.
Criterion’s work is about expanding what investors, governments, and civil society organizations see as possible for using finance to create transformative social change. Explore our resources based on the specific types of audiences they were intended to support.
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.
We have worked with many amazing fund managers in Africa and have seen them adopt practices that are fundamentally about shifting power. This article – the first in a series showcasing advanced investment practices on the Continent - illustrates three of these practices and highlights the investment leaders who are already implementing them (and how). We also suggest how asset owners can ask for these practices from their own fund managers.
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