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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.

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Evolving the gender analysis in gender lens investing: moving from counting women to valuing gendered experience

November 30, 2021

We examine the quality of the gender lens investing field’s underlying gender analysis to assess how a field built to redress marginalization analyzes that marginalization.

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Gender Inequity as a Systemic Risk
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Move from counting women to valuing gender patterns
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Invite Financial Imagination
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Addressing Power Dynamics in Investment Processes

December 16, 2022

The Criterion Institute worked with Capital 4 Development (C4D) Partners to examine their approach to investment processes for their portfolio in India.

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Analyze power, not just identity
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Insights and Invitations - Nov 2022 - ReCap

December 30, 2022

Criterion Institute held an interactive discussion in November 2022 about our work expanding what is possible for using finance as a tool for transformative social change.

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Roadmap for Development Finance Institutions: Strategies to Address Gender-based Violence

May 20, 2022

This Roadmap lays out strategies for development finance institutions (DFIs) to incorporate gender-based violence (GBV) risk assessment and mitigation

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Move from counting women to valuing gender patterns
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Designing Financial Interventions to Advance the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Afghanistan

May 13, 2022

The Taliban’s take-over of Afghanistan in August 2021 marked a devastating blow for women’s rights and a reversal of recent progress the country has made toward advancing gender equality.

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Gender-Based Violence Risk Score

December 9, 2021

This innovative GBV Risk Score methodology and tool, created in partnership with Equilo and with support from UNICEF

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