Paid and unpaid care and domestic work are vital to both the economy and society; yet they remain invisible, undervalued and under-rewarded, and unevenly distributed. In the first of a series of blogs, Rebecca Calder, Emily Boost and Aurelie Faugier at Kore Global present a framework to help define investable care economy opportunities as part of their ecosystem mapping work.

Investing in Women’s RISE fund - providing COVID relief and recovery to women-owned and led businesses in Southeast Asia - got off the ground in two months. We speak to James Soukamneuth and Prachi Maheshwari about how they did it and what else needs to be done to catalyse more capital towards gender lens investing in the region.