W+ Market Assessment conducted by a consortium of Social Finance International, British Asian Trust, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and Consulting for Sustainable Solutions
The market assessment explored three markets for integrating and monetizing women’s empowerment outcomes, with varying maturities
- The impact credit market refers to the broader market for purchasing assets that represent an increase in outcomes, in the case of W+, women’s empowerment outcomes.
- For example, W+ credits represent a 10% increase from a baseline assessment of women’s empowerment outcomes as measured by the W+ Standard1. As part of the W+ credit, there is a minimum 20% revenue sharing requirement with local women’s groups for their self-determined climate adaptation needs.
- Co-benefits on environmental assets refers to credits that represent environmental outcomes that are labelled to show that they have also delivered women’s empowerment impact.
- For example, W+ labelled or stacked carbon credits are generated from projects that integrate the W+ Standard into their project and are subsequently verified by W+, linking climate action with women’s empowerment2
- Market for women’s empowerment measurement approaches refers to any framework or approach to measuring and reporting on women’s empowerment outcomes for project and/or investments.
- For example, W+ Standard is the only global standard designed to quantify women’s empowerment impacts linked to project implementation, the standard offers a framework that is both flexible and measurable, as well as independently verifiable.
