The care economy is a critical, yet often underfunded and undervalued, sector that encompasses paid and unpaid care work. It includes activities related to caregiving for children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, as well as domestic work.

British International Investment (BII) is the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor with a mission to help solve the biggest global development challenges. BII invests to create more productive, sustainable and inclusive economies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, enabling people in those regions to build better lives for themselves and their communities.

Unreasonable exists to re-purpose capitalism. They are an international company that supports a Fellowship for growth-stage entrepreneurs, channels exclusive deal-flow to investors, and partners with institutions to discover profit in solving global problems.

Canada’s International Development Research Centre, in partnership with the Soros Economic Development Fund at the Open Society Foundations, has provided a grant to Kore Global to lead a research consortium to map out, profile and systematically review care economy business models in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Kore Global partnered with UNICEF, Volta Capital and the GenderSmart Investing team to assess the role that private capital can play in reducing the gendered barriers that adolescent girls and young women face on their pathways from education to employment.

Kore Global is working with Grand Challenges Canada’s (GCC) on two contracts: 1) to provide monitoring and evaluation support to their innovations across their global health portfolio, and 2) to provide gender and inclusion support to GCC and their innovators across their Health, Humanitarian and Indigenous innovation portfolios.

Kore Global was commissioned to conduct a gender analysis for the B-Briddhi programme, in alignment with the Swiss Cooperation Strategy (SCS) for Bangladesh 2018-21, which highlights the importance of addressing gender across all programme areas and results reporting processes.