The global landscape of gender lens investing

This study was carried out with the grant support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada. The report presents global landscape of Gender Lens Investing with the aim to promote it in developing countries. We are grateful to IDRC for supporting and guiding us in this endeavor.This report will be valuable for various ecosystem stakeholders including investors, women entrepreneurs, researchers, financial advisors and intermediaries, academia, regulatory agencies and government policymakers, development agencies, foundations and private sector companies who aim to promote women empowerment globally, and specifically across emerging economies. It also sets the stage for further research that will be conducted by Intellecap to design and implement interventions across the three strategies of gender lens investing; and to independently examine the correlation between gender lens investing and its impact on social and economic empowerment of the women