This project aims to prioritize finding proof points that would expand the depth of understanding and possibilities for using finance as a strategy for social change through AWIF implementation and to encourage more capital toward gender lens investments. The AWIF is the SPF initiative to invest up to USD 100 million to promote gender equality and women’s economic empowerment, to ensure that the fund achieves its goals of creating gender impact while generating sustainable financial returns. In addition to managing the AWIF implementation, this project aims to encourage greater adoption of Gender Lens Investing (GLI)  strategies by Asian investors to participate in making the connections between gender and financed by providing data-backed information related to GLI and by playing a catalytic role in the formation and growth of a GLI ecosystem in Asia.

Yuka Yabashi