Step by step guidance: Gender-lens investing in climate and disaster risk financing and insurance (CDRFI) solutions

This guidance note sets out a series of questions on how investment funds and CDRFI programmes can integrate gender considerations (‘apply a gender lens’) through their grant making and investment decisions. These questions are structured around different entry points for gender-lens investing: in the investment policy, strategies and action plans that intentionally incorporate a gender focus in the allocation of capital; in the investment and grant making process; and also, internally within the investment or grant making entity, in terms of the gender diversity of its own workforce and its organizational policies and practices to promote gender equality. 

This guidance has highlighted how there are opportunities through multiple entry points in the three broad areas of: applying intentional investment strategies focused on gender and CDRFI; by mainstreaming gender considerations the supporting investment process; and through inwardly looking at gender diversity within the investment firms that are directing these investments.