SAVE THE DATE 7th - 10th NOV 2022
SAVE THE DATE 7th - 10th NOV 2022
The GLI Forum LatAm is the premier gender lens investing event in Latin America, dedicated to positioning gender lens investing as an effective driver of equality and economic development in the region.
Register attendance + data collection.
This inspiring plenary session will cover the challenges women in Latin America have faced over the last 30 years and the progress made.
A space to create new networks and strengthen existing ones
A brief talk about gender lens investing: what it is, different approaches, etc.
Welcome to the GLI Forum LatAm 2022!
This in-depth interview with Gema Sacristán will share information on the current panorama of gender lens investing in Latin America.
Join Pro Mujer for the launch of our Gender Knowledge Lab!
A deep dive into the financial instruments that can be used to finance the health care sector, opportunities, and other important details
A conversation about care systems in Latin America and the role of the public and private sectors in creating structural change.
An overview of the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation within the framework of financial inclusion.
This conversation with key players in the region will explore the status of mobility in the region, where the focus is being placed, what the response strategies are, and what is working.
An overview of the challenges faced by women-led SMEs and the models being used to address the financing gap in Central America
Major players in gender lens investing in Latin America come together to discuss the opportunities and tools that they use in the region
A conversation on the importance of using intellectual property as a value add and strategic tool for entrepreneurship, including an overview of relevant case studies
ANDE and Value for Women present their most recent reports and bring together gender and entrepreneurship experts to provide information and tools for the use of gender lens in commercial investment funds.
This conversation with Visa and Visa Foundation aims to understand its strategy to foster the growth of missing middle businesses across the continuum of capital. Join us, as we discuss a range of policies to practices that promote gender diversity, equity, and inclusion.
What are the structural barriers to racial equity in Latin America? Why are these barriers so difficult to break down? What are some existing best practices?
A conversation with Silvia Merlin and Angelica Magali while working on two workshops to foster creativity through weaving and stimulate our senses through Guatemalan cuisine.
The root causes of migration disproportionately impact women and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. This conversation will seek to gain a deeper understanding of the causes and identify real solutions.
We will delve into the positive impact of support networks for businesses led by women, the challenges and the enormous opportunity to encourage these spaces.
An overview of the PCA’s approach to reducing migration and its focus on supporting and investing in women
Learn more about innovations in health care and sexual and reproductive rights and practical experiences that can be replicated and scaled.
Explore what sexual harassment in the workplace can look like and tools to stop and prevent it.
Join Latimpacto for a demo day with a gender perspective, featuring initiatives working on issues related to the thematic tracks of this year’s GLI Forum.
Acompaña a Pro Mujer Mujer, USAID y Acrux Partners en el lanzamiento oficial de la Gender Platform.
Learn how to break the gender bias to create better data.
Explore the wave of new masculinities in Latin America and learn about tools that can help close the gender gap.
This year we are pleased to welcome investors, business leaders, and public sector representatives from Luxembourg, the invited guest country at the FLII CA&C 2022.
What role do global markets and innovative blockchain technologies play in impact measurement? How can they be used to support impact investing? During this session, three experts will discuss the future trends, possibilities, opportunities, and challenges facing the impact sector and analyze what steps can be taken to plan and prepare for the coming changes.
Caregiving is the invisible engine that drives the global economy. This session will cover why it is important to invest in this sector at the regional level in both the medium and long term.
Engage with three core issues of the digital gender gap and explore the corresponding data while learning about innovative ways to close the digital gender gap in Latin America.
Using the World Café methodology, this space will encourage dialogue and reflection and provide an opportunity to share ideas and experiences to help strengthen the social innovation ecosystem in Central America.
This workshop will focus on CENPROMYPE initiatives to reduce the financing gaps women-led businesses face and address the challenges that impact women in the region. MEDA will also share a case study.
Learn how to incorporate climate and gender indicators into investment and lending processes in an intentional and measurable way to support gender equality and climate.
This workshop will use human-centered design to encourage innovation and collaboration to develop market-based solutions for the care economy.
Learn more about the role that micro and small enterprises play as catalyzers of local economic development and community advocacy during this overview of case studies of supply chain development initiatives implemented with small shopkeepers.
Strengthening the care economy requires engaging and collaborating with diverse stakeholders. In this workshop, DesignThinkers Group will use an innovative dynamic to help identify critical links between enterprises, innovation, and opportunity. Design Thinkers Group propone una interesante dinámica para encontrar aquellos eslabones esenciales entre los emprendimientos, la innovación y las oportunidades.
Conectarse con mercados e incrementar el impacto es parte de los retos más importantes de las empresas. Durante esta sesión, personas emprendedoras, organizaciones de soporte y del sector privado conversarán sobre los principales retos y oportunidades y, compartirán experiencias y herramientas para generar cadenas de valor sostenibles e inclusivas en Guatemala.
A familiar format with a twist—during this pitch session, organizations working to mobilize, motivate, and drive a more dynamic impact investing ecosystem will have eight minutes to pitch their regional interventions and projects.
This practical workshop will focus on busting the myths around microcredit. Representatives from fintechs, crowdfundings companies, and innovative microfinance institutions will answer questions from micro-enterprises to facilitate their access to inclusive financing.
During this session, the Regenerative Food System consortium will share a map of initiatives implemented in the Amazon and Central American Dry Corridor, highlighting the emergence of these business models and the opportunity to invest in impact on people and the planet with a gender lens
Explore opportunities to use entrepreneurship with a gender lens to address the shortcomings of health care systems in Latin America.
There’s no doubt that technology is one of the most significant tools for businesses today, particularly for micro and small enterprises. Digital transformation is critical to saving time and money, but also for opening the door to new markets and clients and increasing sales.
This practical workshop will cover the tips, tricks, and innovations that will help you take better photos and videos on your smartphone and improve the content of your online store.
Established companies have knowledge, market access, capital, a good customer base, and standardized production processes. Growth companies, on the other hand, have innovative and impactful products, but need resources, access to new markets and customers, and improved brand recognition/visibility. Corporate venture capital can help bring together the best of both worlds. Learn more about Listo Guatemala and its partnership with CBC to address chronic malnutrition and increase impact.
Come learn about innovative tools designed to help service providers do their job. Using collaborative design, these tools are meant to support and facilitate data sharing and joint analysis in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
This conversation will cover practical examples of private-sector programs that are working to close the digital gender gap.
This session will focus on the challenges and opportunities facing Indigenous entrepreneurs in the region.
Learn more about the benefits of offering missing middle entrepreneurs (financing needs between USD 20,000-50,000) access to a combination of business development services and access to finance through two real-life case studies from Central America: Catalyzer (Guatemala) and YES Fund (Nicaragua). The session will also cover the importance of supporting these types of initiatives to address financing gaps in the impact ecosystem.
Join representatives from networks of women entrepreneurs as they share more about their collective advocacy initiatives and the results of an initiative to map the regulatory frameworks that facilitate gender lens investing in the region. The discussion will focus on the advocacy process, as well as the challenges involved in the negotiation and buy-in processes for the MiPyme policy.
This inspiring session will cover the lessons learned from the 2X Challenge and the urgent steps that need to be taken to close the gender gap.
Learn more about the main digital transformation tools directly from an entrepreneur.
Impact investing organizations currently manage more than USD 500 billion in impact investing assets worldwide. However, only 4% of these total assets under management are located in Latin America. This session will feature an in-depth and critical exploration of the opportunities and challenges in the region. Examples of economic sectors and impact areas in which the region can attract and better utilize investment resources will also be discussed, taking into account the region's current reality, potential, and challenges.
This online workshop will cover methods, tools, and best practices for improving your positioning and sales on Facebook Marketplace and other “local marketplaces” in the region.
Cross-sector collaboration makes impact investing a cornerstone in the development of local economies, businesses of all sizes, and, most importantly, people.
Listen, learn from, and connect with investment funds looking to boost impact enterprises in Central America and the Caribbean.
Learn more about different educational platforms while facing off against teams in a round-robin style soccer championship.
Pitch session sponsored by Pomona Impact
Explore a case study from Petén, Guatemala on using blockchain to build a transparent supply chain: Two Sisters Tea and Jungle Farms.
Join a conversation on the key challenges facing small businesses in Central America. Speakers will discuss existing solutions and innovations in development, as well as the bottlenecks that impact investors’ ability to support small businesses. The conversation will focus on analyzing the challenges facing small businesses and reflecting on the synergies that can be developed to support small, high-impact businesses as they grow.
This session will cover the traditional and non-traditional investment and financing options available to impact enterprises.
The “glass ceiling” that limits women’s ability to reach executive roles is still incredibly difficult to break, particularly in Latin America. However, there are other, much more insidious internalized barriers that prevent women from reaching leadership positions, including self-censorship, concerns about the price they’ll pay, and the expectation that they will be required to implement a leadership model that doesn’t align with their values. When explaining why moving to the top of the career ladder is not an option for them, women often mention a negative association with ambition or power, the perception that success is “selfish," the idea that "moving up" means losing authenticity and freedom, and the feeling that only "superwomen" can make it happen. Are there other ways that women can perceive and achieve success?
This workshop will push back against these stereotypes and explore ways that other women have forged their own paths to professional success while staying true to themselves.
Learn more about the organizations in Luxembourg focused on supporting the impact investing ecosystem in Central America.
This practical workshop is focused on MSMEs interested in learning more about tools they can use to support the digital transformation of their businesses.
With only 1.9% of commercial financing allocated to water infrastructure and assistance to achieve universal water access by 2030 below $100 billion per year, the opportunity to double down on women, catalytic philanthropy, impact investing, and stronger government policies has never been greater. This session will focus on best practices and potential solutions to resolve this global crisis.
Join impact entrepreneurs as they pitch their business to investors and representatives from the impact investing ecosystem.
This workshop will focus on the global B Corporation movement, the certification process, and its benefits, and offer training on the B Impact Assessment, including its functionalities and uses as an impact management tool to improve ESG performance.
Art has been key to the evolution of human beings and has shaped culture since time immemorial. Paradoxically, in this era of hyper-connectivity, millions of people don’t have access to the means, information, or opportunity to cultivate an inner world, expand their critical thinking, and feed their curiosity through leisure time. It’s hard to imagine ever reaching true equality if art and culture aren’t accessible to everyone. The creative economy has the potential to be transformative for the impact sector.
This session will bring together representatives from the creative sector to share their perspectives, challenges, and lessons learned that have allowed them to create and evolve as artists while also creating businesses that have additional impacts on society. This space seeks to offer a glimpse of the transformative power of creative industries..
Join a dynamic and interactive discussion to learn about, contribute to, and form part of the investment ecosystem in Central America by learning about the key players, ongoing activities, and external factors that influence this ecosystem. The session will feature the results of research led by PiiC, VIVA Idea, and INCAE Business School with support from experts in the region.
Key to reducing poverty and inequality and stimulating economic growth, financial inclusion is one of the main goals and major challenges for economies around the world. The objective of this session is to identify the determinants of financial inclusion (access and implementation) in Central American and Caribbean countries. Panelists will share their perspectives on how to advance towards financial inclusion in a challenging global landscape.
This session will cover different perspectives and business models that can be used to support forest restoration in Central America, how to improve the region's natural capital, and the collaboration necessary to make these critical changes happen.
Hear stories of entrepreneurs and leaders who are transforming the region through high-impact initiatives.
These days, opportunities to invest for impact and accelerate movement towards climate neutrality are abundant. How do we close this gap in critical regions, including Central America and the Caribbean?
Keynote session - Close of the FLII CA&C 2022
Keynote session - Close of the FLII CA&C 2022
Join this virtual session to hear five micro-enterprises from the region pitch their business to an expert jury as part of their search for financing.