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Social Impact Bonds in Latin America: Reframing Social Development in the Region
The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, in March launched a $5.3 million fund to test a new social sector financing tool: Social Impact Bonds. This fund is a window to a promising new approach to social development in Latin America. SIBs hope to improve the effectiveness of social programs through an alignment of incentives and a powerful multi-sector partnership.
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- Finance
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Malaria in Mozambique: trialling payment by results
A pioneering new coalition promises to provide sustainable, cost-effective funding for disease control through development impact bonds. Will it work?
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- Health Care
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New report: Social Impact Bonds could boost development and job creation in South Africa
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) hold tremendous potential for government to increase effective support for struggling entrepreneurs in South Africa, according to a new report presented to the National Treasury, the Jobs Fund, and the dti.
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- Impact Assessment
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South Africa’s Treasury Investigating Financing Social Bonds
The treasury is looking into the feasibility of using an experimental financing mechanism, social impact bonds, to help boost small businesses and job creation
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- Impact Assessment
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‘Pay for success’ social-impact bonds help train ex-convicts
Social-impact bonds offer investors a more direct connection between the dollars they invest and the impact they have on a social problem.
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Everything You Need to Know About Social Impact Bonds
In the non-profit and social sector the "new, new thing" is social impact bonds, also known as pay for success contracts. Social impact bonds bring together four parties – private investors, a knowledgeable intermediary, a government body and a social service provider.
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- Impact Assessment
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Open development and social impact bonds: rethinking healthcare delivery
By incentivising investment through payment on results, and by making information open, local entrepreneurs can fill the gaps and help deliver much needed services
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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A Missing Opportunity for Investment: Bringing the Bedroom to the Boardroom
During SOCAP 2012, impact investing funds and social impact bonds were among mechanisms for bringing access to family planning to scale. But the first step is simply naming family planning as an impact investing priority. This requires moving the issue from the margins to the center of social causes.
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- Health Care