Frontier Brokers is a network of 7 impact investment firms who have adopted a gender lens in their projects, looking to measurably address gender inequality – in capital markets, their own investment processes and in local contexts where social enterprises operate. We are sharing our resources, learnings and tools so that retail and institutional investors, social entrepreneurs, and people working in the financial service sector globally can invest in gender equality.
Achieving full gender equality in the workforce could boost global annual GDP by $28 trillion, but currently less than 1% of $715B global impact investing goes to reducing gender inequality. Anyone investing capital with a gender lens plays a significant role in ending gender inequality and strengthening the global economy for all.
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A vital part of the gender equality puzzle is addressing the leadership imbalance.
Dr Mindy Gill and Sam Dharmapala are the team behind Philippines social enterprise Regenesis BPO. The enterprise offers business services, and employees are survivors of sex trafficking, violence and trauma. They discuss how a positive working environment is one where women can thrive in leadership roles.
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Did you know only 6% of venture capital goes to women-led companies? In this episode, we unpack the bias clouding the judgement of investors when it comes to companies focussed on women. We meet Dr Sara Saeed Khurram who runs a social enterprise in Pakistan connecting female doctors to low-income patients, about how she found investors in a male-dominated environment.
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This episode we look at how gender lens investing can boost products and services aimed at women, and tackle the ‘pink tax’ that so often adds to the price of women’s products. We meet Farouk Merali who runs start-up mClinica, and provides education and patient care solutions to the women-led pharmacy industry across Southeast Asia.
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For too long, investment has been considered a man’s world. Now a growing number of investment platforms are tailored to women and led by women. We speak to Afifa Urfani from Indonesian fintech CROWDE on how she has worked to create such a space to build investments in local female agripreneurs, such as chili farmer Dede Nuryani.
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From running a business with her mother in the 3rd grade, Jakarta-based entrepreneur Laras Widyaputri has founded her own ecommerce social enterprise committed to workplace equity. When she connected with a gender lens investor she was able to build on her dream to fuel the women-led SME economy in Indonesia.
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The supply chain is an important space for gender lens investing, providing opportunities to reduce gender-based violence and unfair working conditions. In this interview, we meet Lim Ponny who runs a fish feeding enterprise in Cambodia, and has used her access to finance to help employ and educate women in her community.
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