Since 2017, Criterion has been working 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.
Explore our extensive library of resources on using finance as a tool for transformative social change. Browse by category and sub-categories to find the most relevant materials for your needs. Our library contains reports, case studies, toolkits, and other content aimed at investors, governments, civil society organizations, and anyone interested in harnessing capital for positive impact. Dive in and discover insights and guidance to help drive progress on critical issues.
This guide is designed to help women’s rights organizations (WROs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and other mission-driven groups understand innovative finance and engage more confidently in conversations about finance, funding, and investment.
This portfolio of insights was written to encourage different ways of seeing grassroots girls’ soccer from an investment perspective.
Fòs Feminista (Fòs) is a feminist asset owner and intermediary building financial infrastructure that shifts power and facilitates mission-aligned capital flows.
We spotlight FrontEnd Ventures as a demonstration of how the design of an investment thesis through a fundamental gender and power analysis can shift power in finance.
Criterion develops a set of reframes that give us a way to move from understanding the system to actively shaping it, building the intermediation and infrastructure needed for more lasting, aligned flows of capital.
This framework for financing the prevention of gender-based violence offers a shared way of understanding how financial systems themselves shape the conditions in which gender‑based violence persists. It translates established GBV prevention logic into a form that is legible and usable by financial decision‑makers, while remaining grounded in the realities of GBV work.
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