FinDev Canada and COVID-19

People and organizations around the world are currently facing the abrupt and exceptional challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

While the virus shows no favourites, we know that the consequences of its spread will be unequally distributed and that women, especially those living in poverty, will bear the greatest burden. 

As DFI-led initiatives with expertise in gender lens investing, we stress that the COVID-19 pandemic has and will continue to disproportionately affect women and girls, and our response to it should take these differences into account.

The DFI Alliance issued a joint statement to announce they will work together to respond to the COVID-19 global pandemic in developing countries to  support companies impacted by the virus.

COVID-19 has focused our attention on a singular issue, the global pandemic, and rightly so.  With the global scale of its current and foreseen consequences, we must acknowledge that this is a crisis and it is our duty to respond to it as swiftly and as effectively as possible.