Concurrent deep dives
Deep dive 2.1 Challenges of measurement & evaluation in outcomes-based contracts
Most programme evaluations focus on evaluating the impact of a specific intervention. Trying to evaluate a partnership model or contracting mechanism brings with it a whole new set of challenges, not least in trying to disentangle the impact of the contracting mechanism from the impact of the intervention itself. Evaluations of SOCs tend therefore to be qualitative, subjective and rely strongly on evaluator interpretation. This makes their conclusions open to critique, and it can be challenging to defend evaluation findings when stakeholders within the programmes don't agree with the findings. In this session, we will reflect on the approaches and challenges adopted in evaluating SOCs over the last decade, and ways to overcome these challenges.
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Professor Maren Duvendack
University of East Anglia
Dr Eleanor Carter
University of Oxford
Chair
Presentations
The prevention of child abuse and neglect is an urgent and complex social problem. The NSPCC initiative Together for Childhood (TfC) responds to this challenge through a placed-based approach. This …
Dr Thea Shahrokh
NSPCC
Most programme evaluations focus on evaluating the impact of a specific intervention. Trying to evaluate a contracting mechanism brings with it a whole new set of challenges, not least in …
James Ronicle
Ecorys
Despite the increasing popularity of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in education, there remains a lack of consensus on what they actually entail, and whether such arrangements represent a viable alternative to …
Kenechukwu Nwagbo
University of Cambridge
Theories of Change (ToCs) help organizations and programmes explain how a development change occurs and what processes lead to that change. The process taken by evaluators to build a theory …
Rajeshwari Balasubramaniam
Niiti consulting
Meena Vaidyanathan
Nitti Consulting
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have gained significant attention as a mechanism to drive mission-oriented policies in Italy. However, despite their potential to deliver social impact and address complex societal challenges, incorporating …
Tommaso Tropeano
Politecnico di Milano
Deep dive 2.2 Strength in depth, harnessing collaboration and local knowledge
Having strength in depth describes having many high-quality players that can be used when necessary. Strength in depth exists in many places and themes, so how can it be harnessed? The centralised, command and control style has been criticised as ineffective and prone to being siloed. Collaboration holds promise, both between those formally charged with delivering interventions, and with those in communities that have the local knowledge to coordinate efforts effectively.
This session will examine how collaboration can bring enhancement to delivering outcomes for people. It will include presentations on collaboration method, including a brief discussion of a new playbook for cross-sector collaboration. The following five in-depth presentations will examine collaboration methods across a variety of international and policy contexts, such as health service provision, social impact measurement and development financing.
The audience are encouraged to consider ahead of the session how satisfactory the state of collaboration is in their area of work and what has been limiting the harnessing of many actors.
The session will feature discussion with the audience to help solve the burning issues with working collaboratively. At the end of this conversation, we aim to help collaboration to be stronger in a range of contexts by reaching a better understanding of why it hasn’t been happening as much as it could.
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Presentations
The CEO’s from organisations that lead the development of place-based practice in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK have co-authored a paper looking at why equity and place-based approaches …
Jo Blundell
Place Matters
Anna Powell
Collaboration for Impact, Australia
There are some areas within public services where we are consistently failing to achieve what must always be their most important goal: to improve people's lives.
These issues – including …
Mila Lukic
Bridges Outcomes Partnerships
What if it was possible to bring local organizations to the center of creating change to end extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa? Organizations closest to the problems in their communities …
Celeste Brubaker
Village Enterprise
Wisdom and social outcomes – shifting attention from contract to character
Addressing the big, complex, multi-dimensional challenges of our age requires thinking and action at interconnected levels – individual, group, …
Dr Jane Gaukroger
Cultivating Wisdom Limited
Dr Sabena Y Jameel
University of Birmingham Medical School
This presentation will draw on lessons from work completed by Davis Pier (a Canadian social innovation organization), collaborators from the London School of Economics, and community organizations focused on improving …
Mike Davis
This presentation will offer a brief overview of an exciting new publication on transformative cross-sector collaboration.
The challenges facing our societies and economies today are so large and complex that …
Ian Taylor
University of Oxford
Chair:
Baroness Jo Valentine
BITC
Chair
Theme: Innovations
Deep dive 2.3 Bold & bright: learning from innovative global practice in social outcomes contracts
This session will be an opportunity to learn about the impact and lessons learnt from pioneering social outcomes programmes from around the world. We will bring together a diverse group of projects from countries as diverse as Australia, South Africa, Sierra Leone, India and Japan, to explore implementation challenges, adaptations required and value of collaborative working.
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Jessica Reedy
University of Oxford
Abha Thorat-Shah
The British Asian Trust
Chair
Presentations
The Government Outcomes Lab’s March 2023 Impact Bond dataset indicates there have been just 19 impact bonds in the criminal justice sector. This study examines a New Zealand youth reoffending …
Carl Bakker
G-Fund Limited
Outcome-based financing instruments such as impact bonds (IBs), offer a promising solution to achieving the SDGs in an environment of setbacks on poverty alleviation, budgetary pressures and shocks. While high-income …
Anushree Parekh
British Asian Trust
Ghana Education Outcomes Programme (GEOP) and Sierra Leone Education Innovation Challenge (SLEIC) are two first-of-their-kind outcomes contract with immense potential to shape the market. Both programmes bring together a mix …
Ali Inam
Bridges Outcomes Partnerships
- Overview of the Foyer Central social impact investment and how it relates to SOC23 themes
Foyer Central is the only purpose-built Foyer* in NSW, and the first Foyer in the …
Sophie Holloway
Office of Social Impact Investment, NSW, Australia
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) has launched the first outcomes-based contract (OBC) in South Africa with full outcomes funding being provided by government. The SAMRC has brought together …
Dr Nevilene Slingers
South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
Governments across the world have commissioned SIBs In the field of criminal justice to reduce reoffending rates. However, as reoffending is driven by a complex set of factors, it has …
Reiji Ikeda
Ministry of Justice of Japan
David Parks OBE
The Skill Mill
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