Gender-Based Resilience, Investment & Governance Program (GB-RIG)
Climate Resilience through Gendered Innovation
GB-RIG is a long-term program designed to rethink how investment, governance, and evidence are mobilized for gendered transformation. Rooted in climate resilience and feminist economics, GB-RIG seeks to accelerate women-led enterprises, reforms resource governance systems and generates global evidence that drives women, youth and community-led agencies towards stronger social, economic and ecological outcomes.
GB-RIG is a movement for resilience, justice, and shared prosperity, positioning women at the heart of the energy transition and biodiversity economy
GB-RIG tackles three systemic gaps holding back progress:
1. Evidence and Credibility: Donors and development banks often have less access to data demonstrating the return on investment (ROI) of feminist-led models. GB-RIG seeks to develop a knowledge and evidence platform, generating impact assessments, economic modeling and policy toolkits to show how women-led systems outperform in resilience and equity outcomes.
2. Governance and Accountability: National and local governance systems rarely practicalize gender accountability into finance, infrastructure or climate policy. GB-RIG convenes governments, civil society, and regional bodies to institutionalize gender-responsive governance frameworks.
3. Capital & Markets – Breaking barriers to patient, risk-tolerant finance for women, youth and community-led innovations. Women and youth entrepreneurs still face severe barriers to patient and risk-tolerant capital that matches their innovation cycles. GB-RIG provides blended finance instruments, accelerators and investor networks that unlock scalable pathways for community-led climate solutions.
Through innovation hubs, investment funds, digital inclusion platforms, and global policy advocacy, GB-RIG envisions a world where women, youth and local communities are not peripheral actors but central architects of climate-smart economies. By 2035, the program aims to channel over $1 billion in climate and digital finance into women-led enterprises, equip more than one million women and youth with digital and financial tools, and embed gender accountability into the governance frameworks of at least ten countries.