Our flagship support programme:
Beyond Gender

Beyond Gender is a structured support programme that helps organisations leverage gender mainstreaming as a strategic lever of organisational performance, resilience, and impact. It builds on LeFil’s extensive track record in boosting the performance and inclusion of hundreds of organisations, and is delivered through a network of vetted, local gender experts from our network.

Beyond Gender is not about compliance or box-ticking. It is about helping organisations unlock untapped opportunities for growth, innovation, talent, governance quality, market fit, outreach growth, and financial resilience, through a practical, business-savvy approach to gender mainstreaming.

What support do we offer?

While most gender-lens efforts target women-led or women-founded organisations, or organisations targeting women customers, Beyond Gender promotes gender inclusion for every gender, at every level of any organisation, identifying opportunities to promote gender equity across teams, products, services and operations. We believe that, with the right support and approach, gender mainstreaming is relevant and feasible for almost any (social) enterprise, independently of the gender of its founder(s), clients or beneficiaries, and can drive a powerful transformation, with long-lasting benefits in terms of impact and resilience.

Beyond Gender specifically provides:

  • 360° organisational assessments to identify where gender‑related gaps and opportunities most directly affect performance
  • Focused trainings or workshops to translate insights and opportunity areas into 1–2 high‑impact, feasible improvement initiatives
  • Hands‑on technical assistance to support actual implementation, not just planning
  • Clear metrics and reporting to track progress and results

Our support is pragmatic, time‑efficient, and cost‑effective, and always tailored to organisational context, maturity, and priorities. It is also more specifically tailored to three types of audiences:

Beyond Gender helps investors and funders embed gender across their own organisations and accelerate business and impact performance within their portfolios.

Through a structured mix of training and technical assistance, we support investors to:

  • Integrate gender into core functions such as HR, investment processes, impact measurement and management, communications, and fundraising
  • Strengthen talent attraction, retention, and internal decision‑making
  • Improve credibility and differentiation towards LPs, donors, and ecosystem partners
  • Support selected portfolio ventures to design and implement gender‑smart initiatives that drive measurable growth and impact.

Depending on needs and bandwidth, investors can choose between:

  • A 360° track, combining internally-focused work with hands‑on support to selected portfolio ventures
  • An investor‑only track, focused on internal systems, processes, and practices
  • A ventures‑only track, enabling high‑impact support to portfolio companies.

Across all options, investors will gain access to tools, benchmarks, and practical resources that support long‑term integration of gender into investment practice.

If interested, more detailed information can be found ; you can also contact us at gender@lefilconsulting.com.

Beyond Gender supports ESOs to embed gender across their own organisation and within the programmes they deliver to ventures, to drive stronger competitive differentiation, better programmes, and improved performance.

Through a structured mix of training and technical assistance, we support ESOs to:

  • Integrate gender into key internal functions such as HR, programme design, impact measurement, communications, and fundraising
  • Strengthen internal talent attraction and retention
  • Enhance impact measurement and management practices
  • Embed and pilot ready‑to‑use gender-focused modules into incubators, accelerators, or other entrepreneurship programmes.

Depending on needs and bandwidth, ESOs can choose between:

  • A 360° track, covering internal organisational transformation and programme design enhancements
  • An ESO-only track, focused on internal systems, processes, and practices
  • A programme-only track, focused on strengthening entrepreneur‑facing programmes.

Across all options, investors will gain access to tools, benchmarks, and practical resources that support long term integration of gender into investment practice.

If interested, more detailed information can be found here; you can also contact us at gender@lefilconsulting.com.

Beyond Gender offers ventures a practical, smaller-teams friendly pathway to leverage gender for organisational growth, operational efficiency, and impact. The programme is designed for ventures that want tangible results — not abstract frameworks or compliance checklists.

Through a structured mix of training and technical assistance, we provide:

  • A 360° assessment to identify where gender‑smart changes can most directly improve performance and impact
  • Support to design 1–2 concrete, feasible gender improvement initiatives aligned with organisational priorities
  • Subsidized, hands‑on technical assistance from vetted local gender experts
  • Tools and metrics to track progress and results.

Ventures that have participated in this programme have shown measurable improvements across key indicators such as revenue growth, user reach, team diversity, user satisfaction and depth of impact. For more insights about what this programme can do for you, check our testimonials section .

If interested, more detailed information can be found ; you can also contact us at gender@lefilconsulting.com.

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