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Embracing Social Finance, Driving Impact : The British Asian Trust’s Journey

Oct 12, 2020

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?

Aug 6, 2020

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

Dec 3, 2019

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

Aug 12, 2019

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

The sector has long been about inputs rather than outcomes. A few innovative instruments have tried to change that. We talk about the role that non-traditional actors (like private equity and investment banks) can play.

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.