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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The success of the field of gender lens investing is dependent on the elevation of translators and translation: individuals, organizations, and processes that facilitate understanding between gender and finance expertise.
In the world, there is a small, but mighty, cadre of people working to innovate in finance. They may not be doing deals every day, but they are shaping the activity, the ideas and the connections between people that form the field.
Impact investors, development finance institutions, and grassroots gender-basedviolence organizations co-creating solutions for how investment can shift exploitativepower dynamics in supply chains
Gender-based violence has significant consequences for the health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, businesses, states, and countries.
Investing in research on norms change can help investors better predict when gender-based violence moves from a chronic to an acute market risk
Developing and testing a methodology that values violence against women as an early indicator of state instability
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