Gender Impact: Unlocked, Worthwhile, Rewarded with Impact Linked Finance
Discover: the ILF collaborative – a public-private alliance to scale impact-linked finance vehicles; the Gender Scaling Financing Facility and other innovative ILF structures to unlock the pivotal role of gender equality for business and social impact; Acumen’s Hardest to Reach Fund, using blended finance to invest into the gender-clean energy nexus in Africa; and Mirova’s Gigaton Fund using ILF to invest massively into the climate-gender axis in emerging countries beyond 2x compliance.
Framing this topic
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Impact-Linked Finance – providing “better terms for better impact – is getting increasing traction globally, among DFIs, impact investors such as Acumen or catalytic funders such as SDC or the GSSF (by LeFil).
Examples of GSSF+ ILF and work: report to be released soon; Examples of Acumen’s work: https://acumen.org/news/acumens-hardest-to-reach-initiative-supports-the-growth-of-off-grid-solar-in-zambia-with-investment-in-rdg-collective/; Examples of RoI work: https://ilf-fund.org/discover-impact-linked-finance/; Information about ILF collaborative: The collaborative promotes ILF as a means to move towards an impact economy, an economy where it is profitable to produce positive impact, by bringing together investors, investees, outcome payer and service providers.
