WPLUS

The W+ Standard was developed in 2014 by WOCAN (Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management), a women-led global membership organization, whose mission is to advance women's empowerment and collective action to tackle climate change, poverty and food insecurity... The W+ Standard is managed by a team that brings together professionals with diverse sectoral backgrounds and expertise in gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment, results-based finance, and an understanding of environmental markets... The W+ Standard, created by WOCAN, is the first women-specific standard that measures women's empowerment in a transparent and quantifiable manner, gives a monetary value to results and creates a new channel to direct financial resources to women.