Innovative financial strategies and Orange Movement for scaling gender justice solutions

Justice services are often not designed to meet the needs of women in their daily lives. The need for gender justice is urgent, and changemakers are driving solutions—yet many lack funding. In a new policy brief on innovative financing strategies, developed in partnership with IIX, we highlight the current funding gap and how, with the right investment, we can turn innovation into impact and accelerate action for gender equality.

Around half of the world’s population today is left without any fair or just resolutions for the legal problems they face daily. This massive shortfall between the justice solutions people need and the justice solutions they actually receive is the “justice gap”, and it falls disproportionately on women. This is often referred to as ‘Gender Justice’. Justice services across the globe are rarely designed to address the unique needs and challenges women face, nor do they deliver the outcomes that women seek from resolution processes. As a result, women experience inequality, discrimination, and exclusion at every step of their justice journey.

Innovative solutions focusing on women’s justice needs and experiences are uniquely positioned to directly address some of the challenges women face in accessing justice. Launched by social entrepreneurs and civil society organisations, innovative solutions help women easily and effectively navigate their justice journeys and obtain the outcomes needed to close the access to justice gap globally. However, gender justice solutions continue to face several challenges, particularly in accessing capital, hindering their development and scale. A concerted effort to identify and support these solutions through innovative and collaborative approaches can help address some of the key financing gaps, enabling transparency, data, and capital mobilization in the gender justice ecosystem.