Development Finance Institute CanadFinDev Canada

Published purpose

FinDev Canada’s TAF aims to address the capacity gaps experienced by its target Investors to help them reach their full impact potential in areas of: gender equality; corporate governance and leadership; environmental and social risk management; inclusive human capital development; and impact measurement and reporting. The project will improve women’ entrepreneurship by supporting FinDev partner companies to enhance their gender equality and diversity practices and drive greater women’s economic empowerment outcomes through their business activity. Through this, the Project will promote inclusive corporate governance and leadership as well as human capital development and inclusive value chains. It will also deliver climate-specific gender equality support for partner companies in the green growth sector and support market-level interventions that aim to strengthen the pipeline for gender-lens investing over time. The Project will promote the use of impact data by supporting partner companies to collect and use development impact data. It will enhance business performance by supporting partner companies to strengthen the operations and the environmental, social and governance practices. It will help to shape and grow the market for impact and gender-lens investing and support the emergence of inclusive and impactful companies.