What is the GLIA Toolkit?

In order to ensure its effectiveness, pilot implementation of the GLIA Toolkit was rigorously conducted in its development phase with the help of six Southeast Asian ESOs— Instellar (Indonesia), ONOW (Myanmar), Phandeeyar (Myanmar), Xchange (Philippines), Agile (Cambodia) and SHE investment (Cambodia). Therefore, the content is in line with the needs of women entrepreneurs and in line with the contexts in each country. 
 
In addition, in 2020, we continued our partnership with ygap, the lead for gender in the Frontier Incubators program, to develop new content and case studies to address the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs and released GLIA Toolkit 2.0. 
 
This GLIA Toolkit 2.0 includes impact indicators and new modules related to "Gender in Products and Services," "Negotiation skill," "Imposter Syndrome" and "Gender and Power" to measure the impact of support projects that incorporate a gender perspective. These courses can help ESOs to apply a gender lens into their work (e.g., applying a gender lens in product design) or to address the challenges and needs of women entrepreneurs (e.g., dealing with imposter syndrome). 

The creation of the GLIA Toolkit 2.0 has also received significant cooperation from ESOs in Southeast Asia, with the participation of organizations such as Change Fusion (Thailand), Impact Hub Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Impact Palu (Indonesia), Makesense (Philippines) New Energy Nexus (Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines), Villgro (Philippines), WISE (Vietnam), Instellar (Indonesia) and SHE Investments (Cambodia) in the pilot implementation. 
 
We hope that the GLIA Toolkit will be widely used by ESOs in Southeast Asia to implement entrepreneurship support projects with a gender lens, thereby increasing the number of women entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia and giving them access to resources on par with men entrepreneurs.