Red Oak makes innovation an enabler of entrepreneurship as well as a way of empowering women and girls and supporting gender equality. Achieving this goal require thinking and acting beyond existing, predefined parameters. Innovative and creative ideas have the power to transform communities; they are an essential component to improve the lives of women, empower them to realize their potential, secure freedom and resources to make decisions, and increase the benefits of the contributions that women and girls can make to societies and economies.