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NEW CASE STUDY: Investor’s Journey In Gender Lens Investing: Ascend Vietnam Ventures (AVV)

Our Work

We offer advisory services that allow us to respond in a bespoke manner to the growing demands to integrate gender into business and investment strategies – and to help our partners achieve a greater impact on women.

We work across sectors, including clean energy, climate adaptation, agriculture and financial inclusion. We support our partners to assess, analyze and adapt practices that facilitate gender equality and inclusion.

Going beyond advisory services, we strive to amplify our impact by offering publicly available tools, knowledge and information that leverage our unique insights, learning and power to unlock greater opportunities for businesses, investors and others to have an impact on women and on gender and social inclusion.

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What We Do

We offer three areas of service, and our work reflects a strong commitment to customization, practicality and finding new solutions.

Advisory Services

We offer boutique gender-inclusion consultancy services to development finance institutions, investors, business support organizations, corporate foundations, enterprises and others. We also offer holistic and tailored advisory services, technical assistance, training and support.

Data for Action

We build clients’ skills to adopt gender metrics. Monitoring, evaluation and learning are integrated into all engagements, to track results and learn from what the results reveal. We host the Gender Smart Nexus, a one-stop-shop digital platform with a suite of measurement and action tools.

Field Building

Strategic partnerships allow us to generate new knowledge, develop and share resources, and build the field of gender-smart business and investment practice across sectors in emerging markets.

Impact

Over the past 10 years we have supported development finance institutions, investors, business support organizations, corporate foundations, enterprises, entrepreneurs, businesses of all sizes and many others to achieve their gender-inclusion goals.

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Gender assessments provided to 550+ clients

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Capacity building provided to 160+ businesses, investors, banks and accelerators

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Wrote and contributed to 26 gender-specific publications

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Undertook technical assistance in 15 countries across 5 regions

Read a selection of impact stories to see how gender-inclusion solutions can create change.

Clients

Our clients are our partners. We have been fortunate to work with a wide variety of organizations and individuals, including development finance institutions, investors, business support organizations, corporate foundations, enterprises, entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes.

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Partner with Us

Get in touch to let us know more about your organization’s inclusion challenges and ambitions and to find out how we can support you on your journey to becoming more gender inclusive.