We generated a significant dialogue, as well as future collaborations to contribute to accelerate gender equality through social and impact investment.
We are grateful for each of you who made this forum possible and are looking forward to continue working with everyone to ensure an ecosystem where gender equality prevails.
According to the definition of the Gender Lens Investing in Latin America Forum, GLI is “The use of capital to simultaneously generate financial returns and advance gender equality, by integrating a gender analysis into the financial analysis. The main gender lenses are: Access to Capital, Equality in the workplace and Services that positively affect women and girls. ”
WHY GLI FORUM LATAM?
Investment with a gender focus or smart investment with a gender lens is attracting both impact investors and traditional investors.
Over 30 years, Pro Mujer has seen that investing in women generates strong returns, both financial and social. That is why, as part of its commitment to promote gender equality, it seeks to join forces with different actors in the impact sector leading the first edition of the GLI Forum LATAM.
The GLI Forum LATAM was held within the framework of the Latin American Impact Investment Forum (FLII) last February 2020 in Mérida Yucatán.
GOAL
Our goal was to bring together investors, key actors of the impact ecosystem and entrepreneurs in a space of trust to generate an honest and open dialogue that invites the exchange of experiences, good practices and the co-creation of innovative solutions to boost investment with a gender focus in Latin America.
1. Generate an open dialogue: Meaningful conversations about complex problems and how to join efforts to generate innovative and sustainable solutions.
2. Opportunities map: Where are the gaps to advance investment with a gender approach for investors and entrepreneurs?
3. Connection between investors and entrepreneurs who want to move the needle on gender issues.
4. Collaborations with investors who want to understand how to apply a gender approach in their investment analysis.
This is the ideal time to continue generating a common agenda towards gender equality, as well as the potential of investment as an accelerator for this. We look forward to continue creating this kind of spaces and working with you all.
