Case studies

Atmah SIB

Abu Dhabi's Atmah SIB is the first social impact bond in the Gulf region. It provides education, vocational training and employment support to a small cohort of students with cognitive impairments.

Category: Social Impact Bond | Education | Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Quality Education India Development Impact Bond

The Quality Education India DIB was set up in 2018 to support education providers in India to improve learning outcomes for primary school children aged 5-11 across 600 schools in Delhi and Gujarat.

Category: Development Impact Bond | Education | Location: Gujarat, India

South Africa Impact Bond Innovation Fund

The Innovation Fund Impact Bond was the first early childhood development SIB to be launched in South Africa. It seeks to improve early childhood learning and development outcomes in the Western Cape.

Category: Social Impact Bond | Education | Location: South Africa

Cameroon Kangaroo Mother Care Development Impact Bond

KMC is an intervention for saving and caring for infants by administering continuous skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding, and early discharge from hospital with follow-up.

Category: Development Impact Bond | Health | Location: Cameroon

Proyectá tu futuro – Buenos Aires Youth Employment Social Impact Bond

This social impact bond supports vulnerable young people in the city of Buenos Aires to access skills and employment training so that they can secure and maintain jobs.

Category: Social Impact Bond | Youth unemployment | Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Cameroon Cataract Bond

The Cameroon Cataract Bond was launched in 2018 to support the Magrabi ICO Cameroon Eye Institute to provide low- or no-cost quality cataract treatment services to low income patients in Cameroon.

Category: Development Impact Bond | Health | Location: Cameroon

Asháninka – Peru Development Impact Bond

The Asháninka impact bond was the first impact bond in Latin America. It was launched in 2015 and sought to support sustainable cocoa and coffee production within the Asháninka community, an indigenous community living in the Peruvian Amazon.

Category: Development Impact Bond | Location: Peru

Colombia Workforce Development Social Impact Bond - EMPLEANDO FUTURO

This SIB provided skills training and employment support to vulnerable, unemployed individuals in Bogotá, Cali, and Pereira.

Category: Social Impact Bond | Unemployment | Location: Colombia

Village Enterprise DIB

The Village Enterprise DIB is the first-ever development impact bond (DIB) for poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Category: Development Impact Bond | Poverty alleviation | Location: Uganda and, Kenya

The Utkrisht Impact Bond

The Utkrisht Impact Bond is the world's first maternal and newborn health impact bond. It aims to reach up to 600,000 pregnant women and newborns in Rajasthan, India with improved care during delivery over a five year period.

Category: Development Impact Bond | Health | Location: India

It's All About Me (IAAM)

IAAM supports children in the care of local authorities find permanent homes with adoptive families who had received therapeutic training to deal with their specific needs.

Category: Social Impact Bond | Children's social care | Location: United Kingdom

Humanitarian Impact Bond

The humanitarian impact bond aims to expand and improve the efficiency of physical rehabilitation services to people that have a physical disability and require a mobility device.

Category: Development Impact Bond | Humanitarian aid | Location: Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Mali

London Rough Sleepers (Thames Reach) SIB

With over half of all rough sleepers based in London, this SIB aimed to get people off the streets and into stable accommodation, thereby increasing prospects of employment or training, and stabilising health. Participants had individual intervention plan

Category: Social Impact Bond | Homelessness | Location: London, United Kingdom

Essex County Council MST SIB

Multi-Systemic Therapy is a licensed, evidence-based intervention that delivers family therapy in the home through highly qualified therapists over three to five months with the aim of keeping families together and avoiding out-of-home care.

Category: Social Impact Bond | Children's social care | Location: Essex, United Kingdom

Mental Health & Employment Partnership SIB

The Mental Health and Employment Partnership was set up to support employment programmes for people with mental health issues and other groups with health conditions and disabilities.

Category: Social Impact Bond | Mental health | Unemployment | Location: United Kingdom

Educate Girls Development Impact Bond

This was the first DIB to launch worldwide and seeks to support 15,000 girls in Rajasthan, India.

Category: Development Impact Bond | Education | Location: Rajasthan, India

West London Zone Collective Impact Bond

WLZ designed a Collective Impact approach to leverage the local “social assets” around a shared vision. WLZ actively supports each partner and provides a Link Worker for each child, who builds a trusted, lasting relationship with the child.

Category: Social Impact Bond | Youth engagement | Early intervention | Location: London, United Kingdom

Ways to Wellness SIB

Ways to Wellness comprises of a "hub" model of working in which a non-medical link worker trained in behaviour change methods offers a holistic and personalised service to identify meaningful health and wellness goals.

Category: Social Impact Bond | Social prescribing | Location: Newcastle, United Kingdom

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