From Oxfam GB. This paper shares Oxfam GB's experience of developing an approach to measuring women's empowerment over the course of five years, for use in its series of Effectiveness Reviews. Oxfam's aim is for this to be an easy and practical guide which shares experience and lessons learned in order to support other evaluators and practitioners who seek to pin down this 'hard-to-measure' concept. The hope is that the reader will make use of the measurement tools presented in this paper as guiding instruments that can be adapted to their needs.

From MSCI. Attraction, retention, and promotion are the core elements of the employment cycle and key focus areas for any company looking to increase its effective utilisation of talent. While there are many ways that companies can support women’s participation and advancement in the workforce, the simplest and most straightforward measure of their effectiveness is to look at the percentage of women among various segments of the company’s workforce. In order to identify companies whose performance exceeds sector peers, we have developed a workforce gender diversity scoring methodology that allows for multiple possible metric inputs (based on disclosures).

From GEN. A B Lab for gender. Find out more about the certification and get certified, or view the GEN Index of equity-centred workplaces in the US.

From Calvert Impact Capital. This framework is built from Calvert’s experience as a lender, and highlights some basic questions that can be asked during the underwriting process. The framework is not an exact replica of Calvert’s processes and is not comprehensive. It’s meant to serve as an example, offering basic questions that can be a starting point for incorporating gender into an investment selection process. Questions must be refined and adapted based on experience and depending on the deal being reviewed.

From MEDA. The Gender Equality Mainstreaming (GEM) Framework is a practical manual and toolkit for assessing gender equality, and identifying, implementing and measuring gender equality mainstreaming strategies within companies. The framework builds upon the environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment standard by mainstreaming gender across ESG criteria.

Designed for organizations seeking financial and impact returns through investing or providing support to companies, the manual is applicable to a wide range of investors (e.g. private equity funds, government donors, foundations) and capacity builders (e.g. accelerators, technical assistance providers, NGOs). The ultimate aim of the framework is to transform companies to be more gender equitable while supporting business growth and impact.

From SEAF. The SEAF Gender Equality Scorecard© is a proprietary tool SEAF uses to assess women’s economic empowerment and gender equality within individual investment opportunities and portfolio companies for select SEAF funds.

From the UN Global Compact, UN Women, the Multilateral Investment Fund of the IDB, and IDB Invest. The Women’s Empowerment Principles Gender Gap Analysis Tool (WEPs Tool) is a business-driven tool designed to help companies from around the world assess gender equality performance across the workplace, marketplace, and community.

From Equal Measures 2030. The 2019 SDG Gender Index provides a snapshot of where the world stands, right now, linked to the vision of gender equality set forth by the 2030 Agenda. It measures the state of gender equality aligned to 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 129 countries in five regions and 51 issues ranging from health, gender-based violence, climate change, decent work and others. Overall, the index finds that, across all the goals and indicators studied, no country has fully achieved the promise of gender equality.

From Acumen and ICRW. This framework and diverse set of case studies encourages entrepreneurs, impact investors and philanthropists to further examine specific ways in which they can integrate women into business model innovations and as key decision makers.

From Trillium Invest. In Investing for Positive Impact on Women: Integrating Gender into Total Portfolio Activation, Trillium Invest provide a framework and guide for mission-driven investors as they consider how to put their investments to work in support of their own long-term goals to benefit women and girls. It presents concrete examples of just some of these opportunities, as well as a variety of case studies of investors, funds, and initiatives that integrate gender considerations into their investment activities.

From Calvert Impact Capital. This framework is designed to help users understand where and how they can advocate productively for gender equity—whether they are a financial advisor or fund manager, a client or an individual investor. It offers a basic approach to gender lens investing that can be tailored to a user’s unique circumstances and goals.

From Acumen and Unilever. This document captures eight months of work measuring gender impacts across five projects in four countries. The subsequent sections of this report detail the approach, surveys and methodology for the Lean Data Gender Toolkit and provide both project-level analysis and consolidated insights across all five projects.

The Lean Data Gender Toolkit provides a simple, easy-to-use, and actionable approach to help businesses, program designers, and investors put the voices of those they aim to serve at front and center. The utility of this toolkit is not about getting more women as customers, but rather unlocking the potential of women as decision-makers, employees, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

From Veris Wealth Partners. Veris presents its fifth survey of GLI products that are both publicly available (stocks, bonds, and certificates of deposit), and explicitly support gender balance and equity.

From As You Sow. Individual and institutional investors can align their actions with their values, and take responsibility for the investments they own. Aligning investments with values requires that you know what you own—but if you’re invested through mutual funds, it has been nearly impossible to know what individual companies you own. That’s changed with As You Sow’s Gender Equality Funds. Now, you can harness your personal economic power to confront big business. Discover which funds are investing in the companies that lead the field in terms of gender balance and policies promoting gender equality. Use Gender Equality Funds to search and compare mutual funds based on their gender-lens score and financial performance. You can use this database to find socially responsible options that meet your specific needs.

From Nexial. The Gender Finance Ecosystem Map presents an overview of the multi-faceted field of gender finance, involving diverse sets of stakeholders across finance, business, government, and civil society.

It is hoped that the map will facilitate more productive conversations, and catalyse the concerted actions required to shift the system and allow gender finance to break-through at scale.

From FinDev Canada. A tool to raise awareness about women’s economic participation. FinDev Canada translated some of the barriers women face into a print-and-play marketplace game that you can download and play with friends, family, colleagues and classmates.

From the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). The WBA aims to measure corporate gender impacts and accelerate progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment with its Gender Benchmark. This benchmark is part of WBA’s wider work to measure and rank the world’s 2,000 most influential companies’ contributions to achieving the SDGs by 2030. This includes assessing all 2,000 companies on social inclusion, of which gender is a core part.

From the Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Catalyst at Large. An update of the original 2017 Project Sage report by WSII and Suzanne Biegel. A landscape analysis of structured private equity, venture capital, and private debt vehicles with a gender lens.

From SPRING Accelerator. Are you an investor interested in exploring the potential of investing to benefit girls and young women in emerging markets? Perhaps you are wondering how to start, or are looking to deepen the impact towards girls and young women within your existing investments? Then this toolkit is for you.