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Social Innovation Program

Reports and Publications

Triple Ripple: Unlocking the Power of Catalytic Philanthropy in Asia

This report profiles 15 foundations pioneering catalytic philanthropy, examining their approaches to capacity building, collaborative models, and accountability measures that support underserved communities. It provides insights into the motivations behind these foundations, their strategies, and their commitment to fostering long-term impact.

November 26, 2024

Triple Ripple: Unlocking the Power of Catalytic Philanthropy in Asia

T20 Policy Brief: Bridging the Digital Gender Gap as an SDG Accelerator

This publication is made as a part of SPF initiative to shed the light on digital gender gap along with the NGO CSW Parallel Event, "Digitally Empowered and Women-led Development in Asia," under the auspices of the 68th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), in-person in New York, USA in March 2024.

October 17, 2024

G7 and G20 Digital Gender Gap Engagement

This presentation evaluates G7 and G20 engagement of the digital gender gap, with a view to accelerating the achievement of commitments made by G20 Leaders in its Leaders’ Declaration 2023 on halving the digital gender gap by 2030.

April 18, 2024

Closing the Gender Finance Gap: Mapping the Opportunity for Gender Lens Investing in the Philippines

Gender finance gap continues to prevail across sectors and types of financing in the Philipines. Beyond microfinance, women entrepreneurs face barriers to capital – both debt and equity and remain underrepresented at all levels of the financial system. How can we support more women-led small and growing businesses in the country to address this gap? What are their financing needs and where does the opportunity lie for investors to supply capital?

March 29, 2024

Asia Women Impact Fund Social Impact Report 2023 -Impact on women as end beneficiaries

For any investments to qualify as an impact investment, it requires measurement of impact, one that goes beyond counting outputs. In 2023, The Asia Women Impact Fund conduct a social impact study to dive deeper to understand impact outcomes to women as end beneficiaries. This report has started to unveil the positive outcomes on end beneficiaries and the impact on women of the AWIF, and we hope that this will serve as another important data point that continues to promote and substantiate the benefits of Gender Lens Investing (GLI) in Asia and beyond.

March 14, 2024

Impact Report: Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration (GLIA)

SPF, together with DFAT and ygap, developed the concept of GLIA with the goal of ESOs to experiment with approaches to integrate gender lens to their work. This Impact Report analyzed the progress made by ESOs and practitioners engaged with GLIA.

September 26, 2023

Measuring Impact -Introduction-

The Sasakawa Peace Foundation set up the Asia Women Impact Fund (AWIF) with a clear intention to make positive social impact, especially on women and girls in Asia, through our investment. But then, how can we communicate our intentions to others?

September 11, 2023

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