Women-focused AWE Funds receives funding from Climate Gender Equity Fund

The Climate Gender Equity Fund (CGEF) has given a grant to Achieving Women’s Equity (AWE) Funds in its latest round of grant awards to catalyse gender-equitable solutions in climate and sustainability.AWE Funds aims to leverage the CGEF grant to grow and scale its fund, enable its portfolio companies to achieve measurable climate and gender impact, and strengthen the local ecosystem of climate and gender smart companies. It plans to do this by investing in and providing technical assistance to 6-8 women-led and/or women-benefiting climate companies, strengthening the capacity of local accelerator programmes.CGEF, a public-private partnership led by USAID in partnership with Amazon, Reckitt, Skoll Foundation, The UPS Foundation, and Visa Foundation, is dedicated to increasing access to climate finance for women-led and women-benefiting climate organisations.