Our Partners

Implementing Partners
Risk Investor
‘Our clients are increasingly looking to invest their wealth to drive positive sustainable social change. They want their philanthropy to be strategic and focused on outcomes. For many this means exploring new giving vehicles like this development impact bond.’
- Phyllis Costanza, CEO
Convener & Intermediary
‘A key advantage of the DIB is that donors only pay for success. This means the outcome funders will only pay for a programme that has achieved results and raised learning outcomes for hundreds of thousands of children.’
- Richard Hawkes, CEO
Anchor Funder
‘Learning outcomes are the goals that students are supposed to accomplish at different grades. Accurate and timely measurement of progress towards these outcomes enables teachers to take corrective action and ensure students gain the competencies they need.’
- Geeta Goel, Country Director India
Supported by
‘At Comic Relief we’re passionate about trying and testing new ways of funding social change. After the success of the Educate Girls DIB we were interested in how the model could work at scale, and the opportunity to learn alongside other funders involved in the DIB.’
- Ruth Davison, Executive Director of Impact and Investment

Outcome Evaluator
‘Outcomes assessment is at the heart of the DIB – a small, but crucial piece that quantifies impact achieved.’
- Sowmya Velayudham, CEO
Performance Manager
‘The Performance Manager plays the role of trusted advisor by working closely with all stakeholders to identify solutions in a timely manner, and draw lessons to refine the programme design.’
- Gagandeep Nanda, Project Manager
Corporate Partner
‘Children’s learning outcomes are important to BT in India because we want to help empower the workforce of tomorrow. We’re very proud to be the sole corporate partner on the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond.’
- Andy Wales, Chief Digital Impact & Sustainability Officer
Knowledge & Technical Partners
Legal Partners
Advisory Board

Adil Zainulbhai
Chairman, Quality Council of India

Zia Mody
Founding Partner, AZB & Partners

Sonal Shah
Founding Executive Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation

Nicholas Burnett
Senior fellow, Results for Development