Reimagining Gender Lens Investing Futures

This thought leadership paper explores innovative, inclusive, and justice-centred approaches to Gender Lens Investing (GLI). It presents a series of speculative yet grounded future scenarios that imagine what GLI could look like by 2030, shifting away from extractive models toward ones rooted in community sovereignty, collective decision-making, and decolonised finance. Developed through participatory workshops with global practitioners, the report highlights tensions within current GLI frameworks, such as the risk of superficial metrics or top-down capital flows, and offers pathways to reframe impact with intersectionality, power dynamics, and lived experience at the centre. It is an essential resource for climate and impact finance professionals who want to integrate gender equity in authentic, systems-level ways.