What you get from the W+ Standard?

Whether you are a donor or an impact investor, the W+ Standard offers a results-based solution to support women’s empowerment in a transparent and trackable way, that can be compared across a portfolio.

How?

1. Buy W+ credits from a certified project

A W+ unit is a realized improvement in women’s lives.

  • a risk-free investment with quantified and social returns
  • a transparent and rigorous way to translate your investment into a quantifiable impact and report on your engagement towards SDG 5
  • traceability to specific countries and types of improvements in women’s lives.

2. Use W+ as a measurement framework

  • provides a guide for project design and compliance
  • a basis to compare the performance of portfolio investments
  • a way to aggregate impacts for reporting.

3. Invest in a project

Investors can support new or existing projects to fulfil their ESG commitments. Contact us to explore opportunities to support women led projects/businesses.

How? How to buy W+ Credits?

Through the project developer. Select a W+ certified project and visit the project page

Through brokers that are transacting sales for carbon emissions and W+ units.