Investing in Women’s Economic Empowerment to Strengthen Supply Chain Resilience

This toolkit demonstrates how investing in women's economic empowerment strengthens supply chain resilience by reducing exposure to disruption and increasing adaptability.

It identifies six supply-chain risks where the links to women's empowerment are strongest. These are: climate impacts on supply, human rights abuses, lack of workforce diversity, lack of supplier diversity, community opposition, and investor and consumer expectations. For each risk it offers mitigation actions backed by real-world case studies from companies including De Beers Group and Diageo.