Locally led development calls for reshaping existing processes and practices, to create a genuine power shift. Project Maitri, a pilot initiative aimed at improving girl’s education, is an example of such reshaping..

Four deal breaker questions to understand whether an outcomes-based approach or impact bond is right for you.

Social Finance with Fresh Life designed the first Results-Based Financing (RBF) mechanism for urban non-sewered sanitation in Kenya. This mechanism represents a significant step towards achieving universal access to improved sanitation. By focusing on results, we can ensure that every shilling spent translates into real, measurable improvements in sanitation, public health and quality of life.

Social outcomes marketplace - a potentially game-changing mechanism for buying and selling SDG outcomes. This approach could move beyond both carbon credits and the stop-start nature of traditional aid projects, offering a more direct and sustainable way to fund social impact. 

Listen to Social Finance International Director, Louise Savell, speak with Jack Farren of The Social Impact Journal about impact bonds, outcomes-based approaches, and local accountability for impact in international development.

Five insights from the Mine Fields to Rice Fields development impact bond in Cambodia.

Young people in the poorest parts of Buenos Aires face significant challenges in entering the labour market. The country’s first social impact bond sought to change that.

Contracting for impact risk and opportunities.

On International Women’s Day, we reflect on the impact of the pandemic over the past two years.

Part four of our Lessons from Colombia series.

Part three of our Lessons from Colombia series.

This blog is part of a series on the experience of Global Affairs Canada (GAC) in structuring a CAD $30–50 million Outcomes Fund for Education Results (OFFER) in Colombia.

Learning lessons for education from the use of results-based financing in health

An overview of what the DIB achieved, the lessons we learnt, and what might come next.

More than 160 million children are stunted, representing an enormous loss of both human and economic potential.