Show me the impact! Findings and insights from DFI gender portfolio evaluations
Kore Global - September 2025
Since the launch of the 2X Challenge in 2018, gender-lens investing has grown into one of the most influential movements in development finance, mobilising more than $33 billion into gender-smart opportunities around the world. At the centre of this movement is a shared assumption: meeting the 2X Criteria leads to meaningful improvements for women.
For the first time, that assumption has now been tested across multiple development finance institutions at scale.
Kore Global is proud to share the results of a portfolio-wide synthesis of four independent gender evaluations undertaken across the portfolios of the following DFIs:
Kore Global led three of these four evaluations—those for BII, Proparco, and FinDev Canada—and served as the synthesis partner across all four. This dual role gives us a unique vantage point into how gender-smart investing is working in practice across geographies, sectors, and investment models.
Together, the evaluations covered 81 unique investments, offering the most comprehensive view to date of how the 2X Criteria shape gender outcomes across DFI portfolios.
Download the report here.