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.

While adolescence is a critical time for girls to build the agency and resources they need to make healthy and safe transitions to adulthood, too often they face insurmountable challenges.

FCDO’s 5-year £19 million Gender Responsive Social Protection Programme aims to improve the impact and value for money of social protection investments in stable and fragile contexts.

As Sub-Saharan Africa recovers from the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, investing in sustainable and scalable solutions to women’s economic empowerment presents a critical opportunity to ‘build back better’.

CGAP’s three-year project on Digital Financial Services (DFS) Distribution Networks sought to enable key stakeholders in six focus countries (Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire, Colombia) to leverage existing knowledge about Cash-in and Cash-out (CICO) networks in rural areas, where most of the financially excluded people still live, with a view to enabling more rural customers to access and use digital financial services.

The period of late adolescence and early adulthood is a significant one, which profoundly influences future potential.

Adolescent girls often experience significant barriers to economic empowerment due to social norms which limit their power to make and act on economic decisions in order to enhance their broader well-being and position in society.

Many cities in Southeast Asia face enormous social and economic challenges post-COVID-19. Can cities in the region use digital technologies to overcome inequalities and improve the lives and livelihoods of the marginalized and disadvantaged?

Kore Global has worked in partnership with The Asia Foundation for the past two years to build country staff research capacity in several South East Asia countries, with a focus on qualitative research on gender equality and social inclusion in urban settings, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives of vulnerable groups.

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.

The “Women and Money” programme, implemented by IDEO.org, has begun to answer “the how” of introducing Digital Financial Services (DFS) into the lives of women: how to build trust with them; how to encourage them access to digital financial services; and how accounts and payments can have a positive impact on their lives.

The Asia Foundation in Mongolia is implementing a four year project to increase women’s economic empowerment in Mongolia through supporting women-led CSOs. Kore Global has been working with TAF Mongolia since the inception of this project to help strengthen the GESI and MERL aspects of this project.

Kore Global worked together with Lion’s Head Global Partners to conduct a global and country-specific (Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa) landscaping analysis and feasibility assessment of gender bonds for FSD Africa.

Kore Global worked in partnership with SRI Executive to conduct an independent external evaluation of the 2015 - 2020 strategy to assess progress, learn, and ultimately use that learning to inform future strategy.

Kore Global worked together with The Global Centre for Gender Equality at Stanford University (under a Gates Foundation grant) in 2019 and 2020 to conduct an extensive study on women’s economic empowerment policies, programs, research and data in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

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.