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Report: Gender-Responsive Climate Governance and the Role of Women Leaders

Gender-Responsive Climate Governance and the Role of Women Leaders is a new IFC report designed to enhance the private sector’s ability to develop more effective gender-inclusive climate governance, strategies, and actions.

Gender finance booklet: Financial Centres for Sustainability Network 2023

The United Nations Development Programme's Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) network developed this comprehensive gender finance booklet, in collaboration with UN Women, to advance gender equality and women's financial inclusion.

Case study series: Innovative financing for gender equality via bonds

Childcare Benefits More Than Pay for Themselves at US Companies

This article illustrates why child care benefits are a smart investment. It argues that research indicates that companies that take direct action to help employees with childcare may gain a competitive advantage.

Empowering Women, Building Sustainable Assets - Strengthening the depth of gender lens investing across asset classes

The report aims to reflect the diverse range of gender lens investing models and practices while also highlighting
the potential challenges and contradictions they pose to feminist agendas. In this context, the report considers

Discussion paper: SOCIAL NORMS, GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT: A Review of Research and Practice

Global development organizations are increasingly turning to social norms, including gender norms, as a new area of investment in contexts where progress on gender equality is slow, has stalled or is backsliding.

Reaching Financial Equality for Women - A 10 Point Action Plan For Governments, Companies, and International Organizations To Help End Women's Economic Exclusion 2023 Edition

During the past decade, women’s economic and financial inclusion has become an increasing priority for governments and companies around the world.

Gender-Responsive Procurement in Asia and the Pacific

Gender-responsive procurement (GRP) is the selection of services, goods and civil works that considers their impact on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

CSW67 Agreed Conclusions

The outcome of the Commission’s consideration of the priority theme during its 67th session will takes the form of agreed conclusions, negotiated by all Member States. 

Legal frameworks for gender-responsive procurement: A comparative review of regulatory and policy measures and international and national legal norms

Gender-responsive procurement applies a gender perspective to procurement, which is broadly speaking a process at the intersection of a complex web of policies, legal frameworks, business relationships, and market forces that span the globe.