What you get from the W+ Standard?

Whether you are a public or private sector donor or an impact investor, the W+ Standard offers a results-based solution to support women’s empowerment in a transparent and trackable way, that can be compared across a portfolio.

How?

1. Buy W+ credits from a certified project

A W+ unit is a realized improvement in women’s lives.

• a risk-free investment with quantified and social returns
• a transparent and rigorous way to translate your investment into a quantifiable impact and report on your engagement towards SDG 5
• traceability to specific countries and types of improvements in women’s lives.

2. Use W+ as a measurement framework

• provides a guide for project design and compliance
• a basis to compare the performance of portfolio investments
• a way to aggregate impacts for reporting.

3. Invest in a project

• Using the W+ Standard, investors can pre-finance women’s empowerment projects and generate revenue through the issuance and sales of W+ credits.
• Investors can pre-finance new or existing projects to fulfil their ESG or net zero commitments with gender co-benefits, while generating revenue through the issuance and sales of W+ credits. W+ thus provides social and financial returns to impact investors.

How to buy W+ Credits?

Contact us to explore opportunities to support women-led projects/businesses or climate projects that will benefit women.