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    <headerInformation>International Development Projects - 2026-05-15 3:25:43 PM - all published projects</headerInformation>
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    <projectNumber>CA-3-P006166001</projectNumber>
    <dateModified>2026-05-15T06:32:54</dateModified>
    <title>Innovating for Gender Equality Fund</title>
    <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.</description>
    <status>Closed</status>
    <start>2018-11-19T00:00:00</start>
    <end>2023-12-31T00:00:00</end>
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    <executingAgencyPartner>GLOBAL INNOVATION FUND GROWTH LTD </executingAgencyPartner>
    <DACSectors>
      <DACSectors>Multisector aid 100.00%</DACSectors>
    </DACSectors>
    <maximumContribution>9869000.00</maximumContribution>
    <ContributingOrganization></ContributingOrganization>
    <expectedResults>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.</expectedResults>
    <resultsAchieved>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.</resultsAchieved>
    <aidType>Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners</aidType>
    <collaborationType>Bilateral</collaborationType>
    <financeType>Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation</financeType>
    <flowType></flowType>
    <reportingOrganisation>Global Affairs Canada</reportingOrganisation>
    <programName>YFMInternaAssistPartnershp&amp;Programing Br</programName>
    <selectionMechanism>Unsolicited Proposal</selectionMechanism>
    <policyMarkers>
      <policyMarker level="2">Gender equality</policyMarker>
      <policyMarker level="1">Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting)</policyMarker>
    </policyMarkers>
    <regions>
      <region>Africa, regional</region>
      <region>America, regional</region>
      <region>Asia, regional</region>
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    <budgets>
      <budget budgetType="Original" startDate="2018-04-01T00:00:00" endDate="2019-03-31T00:00:00" valueDate="2018-11-19T00:00:00">2869000.00</budget>
      <budget budgetType="Original" startDate="2019-04-01T00:00:00" endDate="2020-03-31T00:00:00" valueDate="2018-11-19T00:00:00">2000000.00</budget>
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    <otherIdentifiers>
      <otherIdentifier otherIdentifierType="CRS Activity identifier">2018200873</otherIdentifier>
    </otherIdentifiers>
    <participatingOrgs>
      <participatingOrg number="0010051100" city="London                             " province="Greater London" countryCode="GB " channelCode="90000" iatiid="">GLOBAL INNOVATION FUND GROWTH LTD </participatingOrg>
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      <transaction transactionDate="2018-11-19T00:00:00" valueDate="2018-11-19T00:00:00" transactionType="Commitment" flowType="ODA" tiedStatus="Untied">9869000.00</transaction>
      <transaction transactionDate="2018-12-03T00:00:00" valueDate="2018-12-03T00:00:00" transactionType="Disbursement" flowType="ODA" tiedStatus="">2869000.00</transaction>
      <transaction transactionDate="2020-01-30T00:00:00" valueDate="2020-01-30T00:00:00" transactionType="Disbursement" flowType="ODA" tiedStatus="">2000000.00</transaction>
      <transaction transactionDate="2022-02-01T00:00:00" valueDate="2022-02-01T00:00:00" transactionType="Disbursement" flowType="ODA" tiedStatus="">4000000.00</transaction>
      <transaction transactionDate="2022-11-23T00:00:00" valueDate="2022-11-23T00:00:00" transactionType="Disbursement" flowType="ODA" tiedStatus="">1000000.00</transaction>
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