Mobilizing Capital Markets for Gender Equality

The Mobilizing Capital Markets for Gender Equality position paper provides a framework for corporations to advance gender-lens investing through Orange Bonds™.

It explores:

1. WEPs and OBPs™ Alignment: Integrating gender equality into corporate strategies and bond design.
2. Mobilizing Private Capital: Using fixed-income instruments to attract investors and drive measurable impact.
3. Regional Megatrends: Addressing demographic shifts, digital and AI transitions, and climate resilience through gender bonds.

The report also outlines four action areas for corporations, stock exchanges, regulators, and market players to scale gender-lens investing across capital markets.

Financing Sri Lanka’s Inclusive Growth: Roadmap for a Resilient Orange Economy 2026

Sri Lanka aims to achieve over 7% sustained growth and a USD 120 billion economy by 2030, driven by private capital across five key sectors: apparel, agriculture and fisheries, tourism, technology and care. Yet women-owned enterprises remain underfunded despite strong repayment performance and growing investor appetite for labeled bonds.

The paper positions the Orange Movement™ as growth infrastructure for Sri Lanka’s capital market, proposing six policy decisions, two targets and a phased roadmap to 2030. Building on existing frameworks and lessons from Indonesia and Bangladesh, it aims to mobilize commercial Orange capital for inclusive, gender-responsive growth.

Unlocking Justice Through Finance: Scaling Gender Justice with the Orange Movement

At IIX, we believe that justice for women is a pathway to resilience, opportunity, and empowerment. In partnership with HiiL, our latest joint whitepaper explores how innovative financial strategies and the Orange Movement™ can bridge the global gender justice gap, empowering millions of women and girls.

This pioneering collaboration spotlights the untapped potential of gender justice solutions, the power of people-centered justice, and the urgent need for inclusive capital. Together, we're charting a course where financial innovation meets legal empowerment, driving systems change from the ground up.

Orange Bonds & the Advancement of Peace, Prosperity & Climate Action

The Orange Bond Initiative™, in partnership with global stakeholders, focuses on advancing gender equality and enhancing livelihoods in resource-challenged regions. Beyond economic empowerment, these bonds have a transformative impact by fostering environments that promote peace, especially in areas marred by conflict and environmental challenges. This paper underscores the pivotal role of Orange Bonds in weaving together gender equality and peace-building, highlighting their potential as instruments for positive change with an emphasis on Jordan, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia.

Orange Bond Insights Paper

Building a Gender-Empowered Financial System

The ‘Building a Gender-Empowered Financial System’ insights report provides a three-pronged framework to systematically scale investing in gender equality.

It explores key concepts including (1) the potential for Orange Bonds as a cross-cutting asset class to advance gender-just prosperity, peace, and climate resilience; (2) the need to embrace diversity, equality, and inclusion in decision-making; and (3) the potential to align risk, return, and impact to build transparent, data-driven financial markets.

Taking an ecosystem approach, the report includes recommendations on how various actors can be a part of the Orange Movement™ and transition gender lens investing from strategy to action.