International Development Grant
Innovating for Gender Equality Fund
Project Number: CA-3-P006166001
Status: Closed
Country/Region: Unknown
Regional Focus:
Maximum Contribution: $9,869,000.00
Start Date: November 19, 2018
End Date: December 31, 2023
Duration: 5.1 years
Project Description
The Innovating for Gender Equality Fund aims to invest in innovations that specifically seek to improve gender equality and/or empower women and a portfolio of solutions promoting gender equality from which lessons learned and best practices could be identified documented and shared broadly. The Innovating for Gender Equality Fund is a sub-fund of the Global Innovation Fund (GIF). GIF is a non-profit innovation fund whose mission is to find fund and scale-up cost effective evidence-based innovations having the potential to improve the lives of people living on less than $5 a day. GIF funds proposals from other organizations that aim to deliver development results more effectively quicker or cheaper than standard practice through grants loans and equity investments ranging from USD $50 000 to $15 million.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) changed social structures to improve the status of women and girls remove constraints on them or improve their agency; and (2) achieved widespread adoption among development financiers to identify implement monitor and evaluate gender equality.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved at the end of the project (December 2023) include: (1) built a successful portfolio of 10 innovations under the Innovating for Gender Equality Fund. This made structural change to improve the agency of 2.3 million women and girls; (2) mobilized an additional US$67 million from the private sector for the 10 innovations; (3) developed and effectively applied a new impact analysis methodology and a gender tool kit in all 10 innovations and beyond; and (4) enabled grantees and development financiers to benefit from GIF’s learnings through 6 partnerships 41 presentations and 8 evaluations to better identify implement monitor and evaluate gender equality. This includes 5 randomized controlled trials.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
GLOBAL INNOVATION FUND GROWTH LTD
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Unsolicited Proposal