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.
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
Our work depends on an ever-expanding community of team members, advisors, donors, and other partners who help us demonstrate our theory of change and ultimately achieve our mission. Learn more about how you can become more engaged in our work.
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