Gender-Lens Investing & Inclusion
Gender-smart investment criteria, inclusive pipelines, governance, and impact metrics for funds, DFIs, and enterprises.
Converting inclusion objectives into performance frameworks.
Embedding gender equity and social inclusion directly into investment criteria is a key strategy for risk mitigation. We advise funds, DFIs, and enterprises on structuring gender-smart programs that align impact with performance.
Gender-smart advisory deliverables
We help funds and businesses capture the strategic benefits of gender-smart structuring. Benefits include:
Sourcing Diverse Pipelines
Identifying high-growth, female-led and female-owned enterprises positioned for institutional advisory.
Gender-Smart Structuring
Integrating inclusion criteria into transaction documents, board policies, and performance benchmarks.
DFI Compliance Alignment
Ensuring fund metrics meet 2X Challenge guidelines and international DFI impact mandates.
Is this the right fit?
- Who it is for
- Private equity funds, growth capital managers, DFIs, and enterprises seeking to align with gender-equity standards.
- When clients call us
- Strict DFI compliance requirements (such as the 2X Challenge), the desire to unlock diverse pipelines, or the need to formalize gender-smart policies.
- Key deliverables
- 2X Challenge compliance audits, gender-lens screening tools, internal gender governance blueprints, and gender-smart program architecture.
- Engagement model
- Retainer-based gender advisory, impact structuring sprints, or ESG compliance frameworks.
We help funds, DFIs and enterprises convert inclusion objectives into pipeline, governance, transaction and performance frameworks.
From diagnosis to lasting capability
- STEP 01
Diagnose
A partner-led scoping conversation and rapid diagnostic to define the objective, constraints and decision-makers.
- STEP 02
Structure
We design the workplan and assemble the right specialists — transaction, governance, M&E, gender-lens or technical.
- STEP 03
Execute
Hands-on delivery alongside your team, with partner-level review of every key model, report and recommendation.
- STEP 04
Embed
We hand over systems, documentation and capability so results are sustained after the mandate closes.
Discuss your gender-lens investing & inclusion mandate
Contact our advisory team to run a preliminary gender-lens diagnostic.