The Theory of Change is a critical component of an organization’s “Roadmap to Impact.” As an organization’s grounding social impact framework, demonstrates how activities lead to the desired impact. It sketches out assumptions, research that underpin those assumptions, the stakeholders involved and helps guide your measurement and learning framework.

We see many opportunities worthy of more impact investment in Latin America’s healthcare sector – particularly as it relates to women’s health. But for these investments to happen, investors will need to embrace a more a flexible approach to funding, delivering the kind of support required by different health models at various stages of growth, and approaching these investments with realistic expectations around risk and returns. They’ll also need to recognize the fact that remaining on the sidelines represents another kind of risk: the risk of missing out on a sector full of profitable, impactful opportunities – including the opportunity to improve the overall investment climate in the region.

With 500 delegates from 35 countries participating over two sessions to accommodate time zones, the 2021 virtual gender smart investing summit was a space for rich conversation, deep insights, and a smattering of powerful musicians and poets. Here are just four of the high-level areas in which I deepened my knowledge and that stood out as particularly important from this year’s summit.