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The Women’s Health and Economic Empowerment Network (WHEN) is a blended finance and innovation platform dedicated to expanding access to healthcare, capital, and opportunity for women worldwide.
Founded to align leaders across G7 governments, UN agencies, the private sector, and philanthropy, WHEN designs and scales solutions that unlock financing for emerging sectors including health, education, agriculture, and entrepreneurship.
We work across the full financing spectrum—from technical assistance and grant capital to concessional loans, guarantees, and equity investment—helping programs close critical funding gaps and achieve sustainable, systems-level impact.
At WHEN, we seek to create enduring impact through our funds and deal structures to advance women’s health and economic empowerment. Centering gender equity, social inclusion, and sustainability into every initiative not only improves outcomes for women and girls, but also unlocks broader health and economic gains that benefit entire communities and the world as a whole.
What sets WHEN apart is our ability to:
WHEN harnesses sustainable financing to catalyze impact by:
- Structuring bold, scalable and bespoke financial transactions and solutions that unlock capital for women’s health and empowerment.
- Uniting leaders, policy-makers, impact organizations and social investors that bridge ambition and innovation; and brokering catalytic deals with key actors to accelerate systemic change.
- Coordinating investment by identifying and mapping opportunities to align resources, close gaps, and amplify ongoing efforts.
- Offering thought leadership, cutting-edge guidance and tailored financial instruments to revolutionize women’s health and economic opportunities globally.
- Connecting innovative leaders through strategic convenings and dynamic working sessions to promote blended finance solutions and turn collaboration into action.
AREAS OF FOCUS
WHEN’s expertise and initiatives span a geographical scope of Asia, Africa, Latin America and additional emerging markets. Our current mandate to support health equity, energy access, and women’s empowerment encompasses target countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, in partnership with governments, foundations, investors, and private sectors entities from around the globe.