WEBINAR
Scaling Quality Education in India:
Year 2 Results of the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond and Beyond
In 2018, the world’s largest education Development Impact Bond – the Quality Education India DIB (QEI DIB) was launched. Independent evaluation has shown, that over the last two years, the QEI DIB has exceeded targets, significantly improving learning outcomes for 100,000+ children. Read more about the results.
Our knowledge collaborator, Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings hosted a webinar to share learnings from this innovative project, understand the key drivers behind the results and discuss the wider significance of impact bonds/other outcomes financing tools. Watch the webinar recording below. You can read the event blog by CUE here.
Panels
Session 1 – A Fireside Chat on the QEI DIB Journey
Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Brookings
Abha Thorat-Shah, British Asian Trust
Session 2 – Understanding Year 2 Results and their Drivers
Aditya Natraj, Kaivalya, Education Foundation
Sowmya Velayudham, ConveGenius Insights (Formerly Gray Matters India)
Dhun Davar, UBS Optimus Foundation
Moderator: Gaurav Gupta, Dalberg Advisors
Session 3 – Scaling Outcome-based Funding for Education
Dr Maitreyi Bordia Das, World Bank
Adil Zainulbhai, Quality Council of India
Moderator: Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Brookings
Featured Blogs
QEI DIB’s Cost Effectiveness Guidebook for Education Interventions
In India and globally, there has been increasing interest in understanding and ensuring effectiveness of education interventions on student learning outcomes. As we live in a world with limited resources, it’s not enough for interventions to simply work. We should ask...
The Importance of Results-Based Funding in a Post-COVID World
Dhun Davar, Head Social Finance at UBS Optimus Foundation,talks about the results-based funding in a post-COVID world
Avoiding Information Overload: Four Lessons From a Performance Manager on How To Use Data To Drive Development Outcomes
Dayoung Lee and Dia Banerjee from Dalberg Advisors, performance managers on the QEI share learnings on how to use data effectively to drive results.
Embracing Social Finance, Driving Impact : The British Asian Trust’s Journey
Richard Hawkes & Abha Thorat-Shah of British Asian Trust talk about why the Trust adopted Social Finance as a way forward to deliver impact and meet the SDGs.
Impact Bonds in Education are Effective. How do we Scale them?
Prachi Windlass and Samar Bajaj of Michael and Susan Dell Foundation write about on success of the QEI DIB, and how it can be scaled to meet critical needs in India’s educational sector.