Trends in gender finance in ACP development finance institutions: overview and selected examples
Year: 2022
Content-Type: Report
Description: Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) have a key role to play in promoting gender responsive finance and women’s economic empowerment (WEE). While the initiatives of multilateral banks are well-documented and communicated via events and publications, such as 2021’s “Public Development Banks Driving Gender Equality: an Overview of Practices and Measurement Frameworks” by UNWOMEN and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), visibility of the efforts of national and sub-regional DFIs on this topic is low. Gender finance is not commonly highlighted on their websites or in annual reports, and their efforts to promote gender finance are rarely covered in research articles or other publications. As a result, national DFIs experience successes and challenges in their efforts to promote gender equality without the benefit of broader recognition. The purpose of this study is to identify those DFIs in the member countries of the Organisation of Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP) with active gender finance or WEE initiatives.
Pages: 22 pages
Author: Tobin, Cathleen; Yacoub, Sally
Categories: Development, Finance, Gender, Human Resources, Investments, Publications
Tags: Developing Countries, Development Finance Institutions, Financial Inclusion, Financing, Gender