Concurrent deep dive sessions
Theme: Outcomes-based contracting
Shifting narratives and logics for the use of social impact bonds
This deep dive session will feature academic and practitioner perspectives on the use of social impact bonds (SIBs). The justifications and merits of SIBs are multiple and uncertain: are these tools for driving efficiency, extracting social value, or enabling government to act in different more collaborative or preventative ways?
Richard Johnson
Healthy Brains Global Initiative
Dr Eleanor Carter
University of Oxford
Chair
Presentations
Public Innovation is considered by scholars and practitioners as one of the main drivers to solve major social and environmental problems our societies are facing. Nevertheless, the crucial move from …
Vincenzo Buffa
University of Angers
Social impact bonds have developed since 2010 as innovative outcomes-based funding mechanisms for social policy. Although SIBs are still marginal in terms of amount invested and number of people supported, …
Mathilde Pellizzari
FAIR & Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines Paris
This session will showcase the implementation lessons from the first outcomes contract for poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Village Enterprise Development Impact Bond (DIB).
Village Enterprise DIB was launched …
Celeste Brubaker
Village Enterprise
This study involves quantitative and qualitative analysis of a dataset of SIB focused tweets posted between 2010 - 2020, which used a relevant SIBs hashtag. The dataset was built using …
Vanessa Picker
University of Oxford
Theme: Outcomes-based contracting
The integration of the user voice in outcomes-based contracts and beyond
Considering the frequent claims on the financialisation of public services and a perceived lack of the user voice in SIBs, this panel session aims to examine the emerging evidence on the role of the user voice in impact bonds across the UK and in an international context. Four overarching questions will guide our discussion:
- How does the SIB design might help to facilitate the integration of the user voice?
- At which stage of the programme and in which form shall the user voice be integrated?
- How can the user voice be better integrated with other approaches, especially data, in the design of SIBs?
- How can we ensure that the user voice affects national and local policy design?
Professor Gary Painter
University of Southern California
Professor Tim Reddel
The University of Queensland
Chair
Presentations
The aim of this study was to test the proposition that Social Impact Bonds (SIBs), as a type of social outcome-based contracts, can create more socially innovative solutions to pressing …
Mila Lukic
Bridges Outcomes Partnerships
Hilary Olson
Self-employed
Norfolk Carers Partnership is the first of a kind Social Outcomes contract for Carers in the UK. It commenced delivery in September 2020 and supports unpaid adult carers caring for …
Victoria Jones
Norfolk Carers Partnership
To address the increasingly dire situation for the youth in Malawi's COVID-19 crisis, young people in Malawi have adapted CARE’s Community Score Card to amplify their voices and other marginalised …
Tapiwa Munthali
CARE International Malawi
This presentation will describe the journey from 1) qualitative research of potential service users to understand practical, experienced barriers to HIV testing and reengagement from their perspective to 2) understanding …
Jen Warner
The Elton John AIDS Foundation
Steve Hindle
Elton John AIDS Foundation
Theme: Outcomes orientation
Outcomes for institutional reform
Complex social issues do not have a linear cause-effect explanation. They typically sit in multi-layered, at times dysfunctional, eco-systems where multiple actors affect each other and the social issue in ways which are not entirely predictable.
In this session we will look and discuss the use of a number of instruments which aim to influence the broader canvas in which complex social issues sit including CSR regulation, the setting of global agendas or manifestos, the provision of specific performance information to drive strategic decisions and the use of outcomes-based approaches for institutional reform.
Presentations
India is the only country in the world that has mandated corporates making profits to set aside portions of it towards corporate social responsibility (CSR). Its one-of-a-kind structure in the …
Rama A. Iyer
WPP India CSR Foundation
Dr. K. “Vish” Viswanath
Harvard University
For decades, donors have experimented with different approaches to catalyze economic growth in developing countries, with uneven success. Through this experimentation, it has become increasingly evident that poorly functioning institutions …
Avnish Gungadurdoss
Instiglio
The adoption of the global agenda of 2030 at the United Nations in 2015 opened a new arena of collaborative governance. This approach rests on cross-sectoral collaboration between governments, civil …
Qazi Muhammad Zulqurnain Ul Haq
Habib University
Literature has confirmed various determinants of public service managers’ performance information use. Nonetheless, evidence on how these determinants work or do not work in developing countries—whose institutional settings are generally …
Javier Fuenzalida
People in Government Lab
This paper draws on empirical data to explore a new theoretical concept for embedding an outcomes approach in complex and multi-actor settings. Social outcomes lie across institutional boundaries, interact with …
Max French
Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University
Chair:
Giulio Pasi
European Commission
Chair
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