US$million grant investments in women’s empowerment and gender equality in 2012. http://www.iadb.org/en/topics/gender-indigenous-peoples-and-african-descendants/gender-equality-and-womens-empowerment%2C2604.html%20 http://www.iadb.org/en/topics/gender-indigenous-peoples-and-african-descendants/gender-equality-and-womens-empowerment%2C2604.html%20 http://www.iadb.org/en/topics/gender-indigenous-peoples-and-african-descendants/idb-gender-policy%2C3150.html%20 inter-american development bank sustainability report 2012 43 building gender events, such as a workshop on gender mainstreaming in rural water and sanitation projects in Colombia and the Cutting-Edge Banking and Access to Finance for Women-Owned SMEs panel held during the FOROMIC in Barbados.