Five actions to be gender smart in your organisation
Imagine a group of entrepreneurs who not only generate more revenue, are more financially sustainable and also care more about the planet? Would it surprise you to learn that this same group of entrepreneurs receives no more than 5 per cent of venture capital (VC) funding globally every year? Investing in women doesn’t only make sense financially, it is also beneficial for our planet. So why not take action today to make it happen? We’ve compiled a list of five steps to address gender inequity in climate entrepreneurship.
Download the action list below.
- Reflect internally
- Show them the money
- Updating communications and marketing materials
- Robust data collection
- Bringing in men as allies
Investing in women entrepreneurship
In a world of diverse needs and perspectives, women bring distinctive leadership qualities, social change capabilities and entrepreneurial skills that are essential to innovation. EIT Climate-KIC sees investing in women entrepreneurship as an opportunity to accelerate an inclusive, green transition.
We have a range of programmes to help our partners identify gaps in their understanding of gender inequity and to support them in implementing concrete actions to mainstream gender into their everyday work. By gender mainstreaming, we mean the integration of gender considerations into all aspects of an organisation’s operations, policies, programmes, and practices.
The climate crisis impacts women more severely and yet innovation on climate change solutions remains dominated by men. To see meaningful and sustainable solutions emerge that work for everyone, we need to be supporting more women and other gender minority climate entrepreneurs to bring their innovative ideas on climate mitigation and adaptation to life.
Organisations that support entrepreneurs can use our WeClim Equally handbook to conduct a review of their internal policies and take steps to ensure women and gender minorities are equally represented in their programmes, communications, hiring and policies.
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