The Scorecard was born out of SEAF's current gender lens investing initiative, the SEAF Women's Opportunity Fund
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SEAF, the emerging market impact investing firm, has announced the launch of its proprietary Gender Equality Scorecard ("GES"), which will be a vital tool to support the promotion and achievement of women's economic empowerment and gender equality in SEAF's global investments. The GES is initially being piloted in SEAF's investments in Southeast Asia and it is expected to be used eventually across SEAF's world-wide, impact investing platform.
Jennifer Buckley, SEAF Senior Managing Director, stated, "SEAF's Gender Equality Scorecard is launched with the conviction that those firms that realize internal gender equality in terms of compensation, leadership and other factors are superior financial performers and powerful drivers of women's economic empowerment. In this way, SEAF sees enormous potential in using the GES to create shared value for women, investors and entrepreneurs."
SEAF's Gender Equality Scorecard will assess potential and existing SEAF investees on gender equality, scoring across six key gender equality vectors: pay equity, leadership and governance, workforce participation, benefits and professional development, workplace environment, and women-powered value chains. These assessments will identify opportunities to improve gender equality and hence guide SEAF's critical post-investment value creation work.
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