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Scaling Quality Education in India: Year 2 Results Webinar
Year 2 Results of the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond and Beyond
Our knowledge collaborator, Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings hosted a webinar last month, to share results and learnings from the first two years of QEI, unpack the key drivers behind the results and discuss the wider significance of impact bonds/other outcomes financing tools.
Panels comprising QEI ‘s core team and experts from the global impact bond and education sectors were full of great insights. Get more details on the speakers, the discussions and watch the recording via the link below.
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.
Blogs & Reports
Paying for Education Outcomes at Scale in India
Written by Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Izzy Boggild-Jones for Brookings and orginially posted on the Brookings website here. India faces considerable education challenges: More than half of children are unable to read and understand a simple text by the...
Year 1 Results Announcement
The world’s largest education Development Impact Bond enables 30% more students to overcome learning gaps and achieve basic literacy and numeracy skills in Year 1
Videos and Recordings
Webinar Recording - Paying for education outcomes at scale in India
Consortium members UBS Optimus, Gyan Shala and British Asian Trust were hosted by the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings for a webinar to explore the potential and limitations of utilizing impact bonds to improve learning outcomes in India.
Bridging the Human Capital Divide using Blended Finance | Charcha2020, May 2020
Using insights from the existing impact bond structures in India, speakers shed light on the models that would be best suited for such structures in a post covid-19 world, where nonprofits need to innovate, and what it will take to get to these models off the ground quickly.
Innovative Finance in Education | Charcha2020, May 2020
Learnings from Year 1 | July, 2019
Catch up on our panel discussion from July 2019 examining the significance of the DIB’s first year results:
How DIB Ready is your Non-Profit | Charcha2020, May 2020
A workshop by consortium members Dalberg and Kaivalya Education Foundation at Charcha2020 to enable non-profit leaders to gain insights into fundraising through impact bond structures.