News and Views
THIS WAS ORIGINALLY A ROUND-UP OF GLOBAL GENDER LENS INVESTING NEWS AND ORIGINAL INTERVIEWS WITH INFLUENCERS IN THE WOMEN EFFECT COMMUNITY. SOME OF IT IS STILL QUITE RELEVANT!
Ceri Goddard is the director of equality innovation at the Young Foundation, where she leads the Gender Futures program. She shares the topline findings from the new Gender Futures report, ‘The Sky’s the Limit’, exploring gender lens investing in the UK and Europe, and its implications for social investment practitioners.
In 2016, when more people have access to cell phones than toilets, women and girls living without a toilet spend 266 million hours each day finding a place to go to the bathroom. Women are critical change agents in the global water crisis, says Water.org’s Alix Lebec – it’s time to focus on how to address it at scale
We live in a world characterized by gender inequality. Throughout the globe, women continue to struggle for equal wages, access to capital and financing, training, supply chain inclusion and more. This state of affairs is unfair, unethical and unwise. Reams of research show that investing in women is not only the right thing to do, it’s the economically smart thing to do—for women and men.
James Dien Bui is the Managing Director of Lotus Impact, a social impact fund and incubator based in Ho Chi Minh City with investments across Southeast Asia. Women Effect spoke to him about women effect investing in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, the different gender lenses he uses when investing, and where the challenges are for investors.
This week our Breakfast with the MD series takes us to Bogotá, Colombia to speak with the energetic and inspirational Kim Kastorff of the Global Success Fund.
