Call for gender-smart Fund Managers

Action Research, Impact Measurement & Case Study Opportunity

Background:

2X Global, in collaboration with Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and supported by Canada’s International Development Research Center (IDRC), is launching an innovative research project seeking to improve the outcomes for women-led clean energy enterprises through applied research. This applied research will focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific.

We are looking for local and women-led fund managers across these markets with an investment thesis and strategy that has a gender and climate lens and seeks to contribute to a low carbon energy transition. 2X Global, with its 2X Ignite initiative and regional research leads, will be selecting 10-20 gender- smart fund managers who will receive support to develop case studies that demonstrate the impact potential at the nexus of gender and climate, enabling a clean energy transition.

Benefits of Participants

1. Receive hands-on support to develop or enhance the fund’s Impact Management & Measurement System (IMM) to produce a rigorous framework that demonstrates impact at the gender and climate nexus.
2. Join an innovative research project that will create a springboard of evidence on the business and impact case of locally relevant innovative finance solutions enabling a gender-equitable low-carbon energy transition.
3. Get global visibility in publications, at industry and investor events, and an innovative research knowledge hub as a tangible example of impact created by gender-smart fund managers at the nexus of gender and climate finance, enabling a low carbon energy transition.
4. Contribute to academically rigorous and practitioner-relevant knowledge outputs in various venues and platforms to inform policy and practice.

Selection Criteria & Expectations:

We will be selecting local, women-led fund managers who are originally from and operating in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, or Asia-Pacific with an investment thesis and strategy that has a gender and climate lens, and seeks to contribute to a low carbon energy transition. Emerging and first-time fund managers, evergreen vehicles and non-traditional fund structures are welcome. It is desirable for the fund manager to have made some investments under its thesis but these can be early track record deals.

The project is expected to run over a period of 12-24 months during which we will co-create a new or enhance an existing Impact Management & Measurement System (IMM), and collect impact data over a meaningful time period. The fund manager must consent to share key metrics of the IMM and agree for a case study to be published open access on the 2X Global website and research publications for academic and practitioner audiences. Confidential information can be defined collaboratively and removed from publication. To learn more about the project, please contact us.

Interested?

If you are interested in contributing to this research project, please complete the Expression of Interest form on the 2x Global website here. 2x Global will be accepting and reviewing expressions of interest on a rolling basis and encourage early submissions. Fund managers will be selected by year end 2024.