Resource Library
Explore an array of resources below to deepen your understanding of impact investing. We encourage you to browse through CAFIID content, case studies, member content and additional resources on themes of catalysing finance, climate finance, gender lens invesing (GLI), health, and impact measurement and management (IMM).
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Bâtir la résilience à partir de la base : leçons tirées de l’un des marchés les plus complexes au monde
CAFIID, 2026
Comment deux décennies d’inclusion financière et de numérisation délibérées ont permis à FINCA RDC de maintenir l’accès des client·e·s malgré un conflit actif dans l’est de la RDC, et ce que cela signifie pour les investisseurs d’impact dans les marchés fragiles et touchés par les conflits.
Building Resilience from the Ground Up: Lessons from One of the World's Most Challenging Markets
CAFIID, 2026
How two decades of deliberate financial inclusion and digitisation enabled FINCA DRC to maintain client access through active conflict in eastern DRC - and what it means for impact investors in fragile and conflict affected markets.
Supivaa: Empowering WSMEs Through the Power of AI
Empowering women-led SMEs across Africa, Supivaa.AI connects WSMEs with financial institutions, providing tailored credit profiles and capacity development support to unlock equal access to capital and drive sustainable growth.
September, 2024
Renew Capital: Driving Towards a Gender-Smart Economy in Ethiopia
Renew Capital and its partners are championing groundbreaking work in Ethiopia to build a gender-inclusive economy that recognizes the power of women in business.
September, 2024
Momentus Global: Advancing Gender Equality through National Financing Strategies in Namibia
Aimed at strengthening DFIs' capacity to enhance women's economic empowerment and financial inclusion, Momentus Global partnered with the UNDP to develop a Gender-Responsive Integrated National Financing Strategy for Namibia.
September, 2024
Value for Women and Aceli: Partnering to Drive Gender Inclusion in Agriculture
Through a five-year strategic partnership, Value for Women and Aceli aim to drive gender inclusion in agriculture through engagement with Aceli’s network of agricultural lenders.
September, 2024
Cross-Border Impact Ventures: Innovations in Exits to Ensure Continued Impact in Health Technology
At over USD 90 million, CBIV’s inaugural fund, the Women’s and Children’s Health Technology Fund I, is the largest women and child-focused health fund in the world at the venture stage.
September, 2024
Kore Global: Supporting DFIs to Advance their Gender Lens Investing Approach through Impact Management and Measurement
Kore Global was commissioned by BII to conduct an evaluation to better understand the potential development impacts for women of investments meeting the 2X Challenge ‘entrepreneurship’ and ‘leadership’ criteria.
September, 2024
MEDA: Addressing Gender Disparities in Access to Finance
The USD 200 million Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund has a GLI mandate and is systematically integrating gender diversity, equity and inclusion principles into all aspects of its operations.
September, 2023
Deetken Impact: Promoting Gender Lens Investing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Today, the Ilu Fund’s 25 portfolio companies are serving more than 775,000 clients of whom 75% identify as women and 26% reside in rural areas, as well as employing more than 7,500 individuals with formal and full-time work.
September, 2023
FinDev Canada: Advancing Gender Equality through the Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund (EEGF)
Through its investments, EEGF addresses the energy needs of African women consumers and women business owners.
September, 2023
Australian Development Investments (ADI) and Sarona Asset Management: Advancing the Gender Impact of Investments
ADI’s approximately AUD 1 million investment to finance the lending portfolio of women-focused FinTechs has provided access to capital to over one million women-owned or led MSMEs.
September, 2023
Equality Fund: A New Model for Global Feminist Investing
Backed by a $300 million contribution from the Government of Canada, the Equality Fund unites gender-lens investing, bold government funding, and powerful, multi-sector philanthropy to unlock new capital for women's rights organizations and movements.
September, 2023
IDRC: Transforming the Care Economy through Impact Investing (TCEII) Program
TCEII uncovers the unique opportunity for GLI investors to directly invest in SMEs in the care economy, many of which are women-led and women-owned and also develop products and services that address women and girls’ needs.
September, 2023
