The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women has released the report of its Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation on the theme of gender equality in the digital age. The consultation was convened by the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and UN Women’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, in…(Read more)
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Gender inclusion through investing: Exploring the possibilities in Bangladesh
On December 13, 2022, LightCastle Partners, a Dhaka-based management consulting firm, hosted an expert panel entitled “Gender Inclusion through Investing: How can we do that?” The event was co-sponsored by the Biniyog Briddhi Programme, a Swiss-funded initiative that provides impact-linked financing to social tech enterprises in Bangladesh (see https://www.sie-b.org/) and which had organized a previous…(Read more)
Melinda French Gates says Women’s Economic Progress has Stalled
In conjunction with the Gates Foundation’s September 2022 SDG Goalkeepers Report, Melinda French Gates says that women’s economic progress has stalled—and not only because of the pandemic. “Over the years”, she writes, “efforts (including our foundation’s) to close this gap have centered around “women’s economic empowerment,” a shorthand for providing women with jobs or cash.…(Read more)
ODI on DFI Investments in Gender, Climate, Impact Harmonization
UK’s Overseas Development Institute published a new collection of essays entitled “The Catalytic Effects of DFI Investment in Gender Equality, Climate Action, and the Harmonisation of Impact Standards, edited by Samantha Attridge
Making Green Infrastructure Gender Equal
In a new opinion piece in The Hill Times, Ted Jackson argues that the $10-billion growth plan of the Canadian Infrastructure Bank, which is very green, should also be gender equal. He argues that the gender ambition framework of the multilateral Private Infrastructure Development Group, and the Government of Canada’s own Gender-Based Analysis Plus, are…(Read more)