Gender Lens Investing is the conscious consideration of gender-based factors throughout the process of investment, so as to advance the practice of gender equality while making investment decisions.
C4D Partners has, and continues to, recognize gender as a significant factor in its investment practice. Gender lens investing can lead to women’s empowerment in several ways: direct capital to women-owned or women-led businesses, provide fair employment opportunities and practices for women, target organizations and initiatives that promote women’s education and leadership development, and help in reducing gender pay gaps and ensuring that women are fairly compensated for their work. Applying a gender lens in impact investing can significantly contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
C4D Partners makes conscious efforts toward building a strong gender-smart impact portfolio. We have identified goals that we are continuously implementing and achieving. In accordance with our gender goals, we focus on businesses that are:
At C4D Partners, we approach impact through gender-lens investing by focusing on businesses
We are building a gender-smart investment portfolio by aligning our gender goals with our returns.
C4D Partners has seamlessly aligned its gender analysis throughout the investment process with its gender goals.This has enabled us to achieve our goals of creating a gender-smart investment portfolio while also successfully creating a gender positive ecosystem.
A Self-Assessment Gender-lens Toolkit has been developed for our portfolio and pipeline companies to evaluate their existing business processes through a gender lens. The toolkit efficiently enables qualitative analysis of the gender-based metrics, and aids in educating and supporting our portfolio in building gender inclusive companies
Furthermore, quantitative gender metrics are collected on a quarterly basis from all portfolio companies to track the positive impact being created for the women in our ecosystem.
