2X Global Summit Special Edition

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2X Global: Unlocking gender-smart capital at scale

Dear Friend,

We’re here in your inbox at an unusual time this month, but for a very good reason!

Welcome to the Summit Special Edition, where we’ll give you insights into what will be on the agenda and driving the conversations at the upcoming 2X Global Summit 2024, which is starting one week from now, in Nairobi, Kenya.

The 2X Global Summit is the annual convening of 2X Global members and strategic partners. This year’s summit, co-hosted with MEDA, will bring together over 200 investors, capital providers, and influencers across all markets, sectors, and asset classes. This includes leaders from development finance institutions, fund managers, wealth and asset managers, family offices, pension funds, banks, financial institutions and insurance companies, foundations, philanthropy and donor agencies, corporate investment actors, intermediaries and service providers, and other industry shaping organisations.

This year’s theme Solutions for Systems-Level Change, reflects our thinking and approach in crafting the Summit. This three-day event is designed to foster member connection, advance collaborations and drive meaningful action towards closing the global gender financing gap.

Exclusive expert insights and immersive workshops will hone in on promising opportunities in the field: gender-smart innovations in technology, the gender and climate nexus, care economy, impact rewards, tackling GBVH, standard-setting, and more.

Read the full agenda

At the event, we will also launch 2X Certification, an independent and universally available mechanism that seeks to drive greater transparency, accountability and credibility in the field of gender lens investing.

Keep going to explore articles, research and op-eds we’re reading, sparked by our Summit theme, sessions and speakers.

In Community,

2X Global team

2X Global Summit Reads

Thoughts from our Co-Host on the first 2X Global Summit in Africa. Dr Dorothy Nyambi, President and CEO of MEDA, our 2024 co-host, penned this thoughtful post for our Field Notes blog, where she sets the stage for the discussions by examining the state of play for gender finance in Africa.

Digitalisation to close the gender gap. African Business explores the ways digitalisation can help close the gender gap for women entrepreneurs in Africa, from digitally supported lending solutions, online booking apps to the wealth of knowledge available for capacity building. The article quotes Greta Bull, Director of Women’s Economic Empowerment at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who will deliver a Keynote at the 2X Global Summit.

Challenges and opportunities facing women in fintech. Omoneka Musa Oyier, MEDA’s Director of Business Value Creation, ventilates the challenges and opportunities facing women in fintech, in this recent blog post where she proposes solutions to tackling the disparities in investment in women tech entrepreneurs and in usage of technology by women entrepreneurs. She will be a part of the Summit, leading a panel on empowering women in Fintech.

Women spearheading research into an overlooked medium for medical diagnostics. What useful health data could we glean from menstrual blood and could it be a long-overlooked, non-invasive alternative for medical diagnostic testing? The New Yorker profiles women-led companies developing ways to use menstrual blood to test for a range of conditions, from diabetes to STDs to endometriosis.

AI for Africa: what’s driving impact? With the 2024 Summit being hosted in the Silicon Savannah, as Kenya’s vibrant, continent-leading technology hub is known, this new suite of reports from GSMA, ‘AI for Africa: Use Cases Delivering Impact’ provide on the ground insights from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, showing what’s working and how when it comes to deploying AI on the continent. And for a useful precursor to these reports, explore GSMA’s Mobile Gender Gap report, issued earlier in the year.

Standard-Setting and gender lens investing (GLI) - where we’ve been, where we are. GLI standard-setting will be a big focus at the 2024 Summit- these two blog posts from our 2023 Summit, about the ARISE initiative funded by Global Affairs Canada and about the evolving standard setting landscape, provide valuable context.

The end of a fossil fuel era. The United Kingdom will close its last coal plant this month, marking the relatively rapid end of an era of 140-plus years of coal-powered energy, as the country moves towards greener energy sources. In 1990, coal was still the source of most of the country’s electricity, but the last three decades have seen a rapid shift away.

Women-led agriculture collectives in Chad show a path to economic freedom. In Chad, women are using collective action to gain autonomy and land rights, and are economically empowering themselves and their children in the process, by joining agricultural collectives.

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