Gender Lens for Incubation and Acceleration Toolkit

A practical resource to help intermediaries become more gender-responsive

A unique partnership, which emerged from connections made during the Frontier Incubators program, illustrates unexpected value that arose from the collaborative partnering approach taken on SFI. The partnership, formed between the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) and ygap, Convenors.org and SecondMuse through connections made during Frontier Incubators, emerged from shared interest in making incubators, accelerators and investment more inclusive for women. A new partner contributed additional resources enabling the development of a new toolkit that brought additional value to entrepreneurs and SFI Operational Partners.

The GLIA Toolkit —a free, interactive resource that provides 80+ practical tools, strategies, and real-world case studies to support making the work of incubators and accelerators more accessible and inclusive to all genders—emerged from the content ygap created for the Frontier Incubators. In a highly collaborative process, the toolkit was piloted by six Frontier Incubator organisations across Southeast Asia.

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Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration (GLIA) toolkit

Crucial to this opportunity being realised was an openness from the iXc to welcome in partners with aligned but expanded interests and additional resources, to collaborate within the network of organisations involved in Frontier Incubators, in this case without DFAT oversight and control.

“It’s been a dream partnership for us. Everyone is so passionate and cares about this product. I’ve learned a lot from our partners. We’ve been doing work around developing a toolkit from the research side but working with practitioners and having pilot partners involved in design and continuous feedback – resulted in a fruitful collaboration. I’ve learned so much from seeing this process from their eyes as well. I highly recommend the partners to other organisations—if we were to try to do it alone, the final output would not be as good as what we’re coming towards. Collective action has brought a lot of extra value for us.” – Lily Yu, SPF