Investment Committee Members: Female (OI8709)

This metric is intended to capture the number of members of the organization’s investment committee who are women. An investment committee is the governing body that is charged with overseeing investments and developing investment policies for board approval.

To report against 2X Challenge requirements, organizations at which female investment committee members do not play an active role on the investment committee should not be counted. The share of women on the investment committee should also exceed the legal minimum for the organization’s domicile country.

This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact. It may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.