On June 15, 2025, PIDG—the Private Infrastructure Development Group owned by Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom—published its new Gender Lens Investing Policy. Making the business case for investing in women in infrastructure projects, and bolstered by a clear theory of change, the new policy directs PIDG to integrate gender lens analysis into…(Read more)
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Gender Lens Investing and Women’s Green Businesses
On November 11, 2024 in Dhaka, impact investment fund Truvalu and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation hosted a roundtable for bankers, impact investors and women entrepreneurs to explore ways and means of increasing access to capital for women-owned businesses addressing climate change through energy efficiency, clean energy, recycling or other green products and…(Read more)
International Women’s Day 2024
UN Women’s theme for International Women’s Day 2024, on March 8, 2024, is Invest in Women, Accelerate Progress. Key areas of action, the agency says, include investing in gender equality as “the greatest human right challenge”; ending poverty; implementing gender-responsive financing; shifting to a green economy and care society; and supporting feminist changemakers. For more…(Read more)