The Case Has Been Made: _ 500 Reports That Support Gender Focused Giving, Investing & Action “When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.” __ Melinda Gates The Case Has Been Made: 500 Reports that Support Gender Focused Giving, Investing, and Action Welcome to 2018. Welcome to the new addition of the Top Reports on Women and Girls and our new name in honor of a new milestone. In 2017, women across the globe collectively rose up and raised their voices. From the Women’s March to #MeToo and #TimesUp, women made it very clear that they were done standing on the sidelines. I see it as the year that they, we, took to the field. 2017 was the year that moments became movements, and there will be no going back. 2017 was also a great year for research. It was the year that gender focused research and strategies offi- cially went mainstream. So much so, that it has become nearly impossible to keep up and keep track of the growing number of organizations who are producing amazing reports to inform not only philanthropic strategies, but also investment and consumer oriented ones as well. Over the past couple of years I have been asked on numerous occasions why I keep obsessively collecting and sharing research, and the answer is that I do so for many reasons. First, as a former financial profes- sional, I have grown accustomed to using data to support my financial decisions. When I began to wonder what data there was to inform giving and investing with a gender lens, I looked into it, and I discovered that there was in fact a lot of data that made the case for these strategies. Second, I want to honor the organizations that do this work by helping to make this data more visible, and to help get it into the hands of decision makers. As the Co-Founder of Women Moving Millions, an organization of nearly 300 members who have collectively given over a billions dollars to women and girls, these reports are a powerful and invaluable resource. Finally, when people ask me why I focus on giving to gender based causes, I have an easy answer. It’s because the need is great and the solutions are high impact. And here are 500 reports that support that statement. This publication is the culmination of over a decade of aggregating and collecting research. Divided into 20 categories, these reports, individually and collectively, make a clear and compelling case for directing your philanthropic and investment capital with a gender lens, with a specific focus on women and girls. I have done my very best, with the incredible support of Laura Moore, to include all the major reports we could find, but if we have missed yours, please forgive us, and send it to us at @researchonwomen and #researchonWandG. So dig in. Read. Share. Process. Let this be a tool to inform how you use your resources. The evidence is in! Now what? Jacki Zehner President, The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation & Co-Founder, Women Moving Millions Table of Contents ISSUE AREA PAGE 1. Agriculture, Climate & Land Rights 1 2. Arts, Entertainment, Film & Media 7 3. Business Case For Diversity & Inclusion 19 4. Economic Growth, Development, Employment & Equality 40 5. Entrepreneurship 78 6. Girls 85 7. Giving To Women & Girls & Gender Lens Philanthropy 96 8. Health & Reproductive Issues 103 9. Impact Investing 108 10. Impact Investing With A Gender Lens 118 11. Leadership 125 12. Peace, Conflict, Refugees & Migration 126 13. Philanthropy 133 14. Political Representation 140 15. Real Estate 144 16. Science & Technology 146 17. Sports 153 18. Violence Against Women & Trafficking 155 19. Wealth & Economic Clout 166 20. Masculinity & Engaging Men In Gender Equality 170 Agriculture, Climate & Land Rights 1. Agriculture, Gender and Diversification in Rural Africa: Longitudinal Perspectives from Six Countries Oxford University Press, 2018. __ The book has three interrelated aims. Descriptively, the aim is to summarize and present findings from the third wave of a unique dataset – the Afrint dataset that follows smallholders across six countries from 2002 to 2013/15. Theoretically, our aim is to provide nuance to the current dominance of structural transforma- tion narratives of agricultural change through adding insights from gender studies as well as village-level studies of agrarian change. Placing agrarian change in relation to broader livelihood dynamics outside the farm sector and contextualizing them nationally and regionally is a necessary analytical adaptation to the unfolding empirical realities of rural Africa. We are convinced that the combination of these perspectives will enhance the research frontier in several fields and is of interest to academics within a number of dis- ciplines. Finally, the policy aim of the book is to provide suggestions for more inclusive policies related to rural development. Outlining the weaknesses of present policies and illustrating gendered inequalities in ac- cess to agrarian resources will provide opportunities for identifying possible alternatives to existing policy. http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198799283.pdf 2. Applying a Gender Lens to Agriculture: Farmers, Leaders, and Hidden Influencers in the Rural Economy Root Capital, 2014. __ In this 14-page issue brief, the second in Root Capital’s Issue Brief Series, we share our experience of apply- ing a gender lens to our work in smallholder agricultural finance. Through our Women in Agriculture Initia- tive, we have been able to better understand the areas in which we know we support women (as farmers, agro-processing employees, and leaders). This work has also identified new areas for potential impact that further foster economic empowerment for women, underscoring the vital nature of women in less conspic- uous—but high-impact—roles and positions. http://info.rootcapital.org/applying-gender-lens-to-agriculture 3. Capturing the Gender Effect: Guidance for Gender Measurement in Agriculture Programs International Center for Research on Women, 2013. __ This technical brief, produced for the Tanzania Gender and Agriculture Forum (TaGAF), draws on the ex- periences of two projects in Mbeya, Tanzania—Faida Mali’s Integrated Soil Fertility Management and Tech- noServe’s Coffee Initiative—focusing on the steps they have taken to measure the ‘gender effect’. It is a follow-on to an earlier TaGAF brief that presents some of the promising gender responsive practices these projects have underway. http://www.icrw.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ICRW-TZ-Gender--Agri-II-v7-1FINAL.pdf 1 Agriculture, Climate & Land Rights 4. Climate Justice and Women’s Rights: A Guide to Supporting Grassroots Women’s Action Global Greengrants Fund, The International Network of Women’s Funds, and the Alliance of Funds, 2015. __ This guide emerged from the Summit on Women and Climate in Bali Indonesia and aims to increase timely and appropriate funding for worldwide climate action initiatives led by women and their communities. The guide is not a comprehensive resource on climate change or women’s rights. Instead, it addresses an urgent need within the funding community, and offers concrete, practical guidance. http://www.womenandclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Climate-Justice-and-Womens-Rights-Guide1.pdf 5. FAO Policy on Gender Equality: Attaining Food Security Goals in Agriculture and Rural Development Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), 2012. __ This policy document provides a framework to guide FAO’s efforts to achieve gender equality in all its tech- nical work and to assess results. The policy specifies FAO’s goal and objectives related to gender equality, and delineates an accountability structure to ensure policy oversight, and achievement of results. http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/gender/docs/FAO_FinalGender_Policy_2012.pdf 6. The Female Face of Farming Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2012. __ This award-winning infographic illustrates why women are so important to agriculture, the gender gaps that exist in the industry, and the positive impact that closing the gap would have on increasing yield and reducing hunger. http://www.fao.org/gender/infographic/en/ 2 Agriculture, Climate & Land Rights 7. Gendered perspectives of trees on farms in Nicaragua: Considerations for agroforestry, coffee cultivation, and climate change The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) for the CGIAR Research Center, 2017. __ Due to gender-specific roles and responsibilities, men and women face varying challenges and opportuni- ties to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts. It is particularly important to take into account the ways that men and women engage with tree resources in order to develop both equitable and effective interventions and strategies, recognizing that agroforestry is an important element of these. The report provides initial insights into the uses and importance that women and men associate with trees on farms, as well as their participation in decision-making on agroforestry activities, in order to support the devel- opment of gender-sensitive climate change interventions focused on high value tree crops. In particular, findings suggest that women associate a greater number of household uses with on-farm trees than men. Furthermore, women may be more prone to give importance to fruit trees in comparison to men. Results also demonstrate differences in women’s and men’s perceptions of decision-making processes concerning trees on farms: women recognize their participation more than men, particularly when it concerns fruit trees and planting, as opposed to tree management. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/78670 8. Gender-Responsive Strategies on Climate Change: Recent Progress and Ways For- ward for Donors BRIDGE Report, 2011. __ Gender equality is an important pre-condition for successful climate change adaptation, and transition to low-carbon alternatives in developing countries.