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The Chances SIB aims to use sport and physical activity to provide new opportunities and alternative life pathways for children and young people in disadvantaged areas whilst improving their health and wellbeing.
Social Impact Bond | Youth engagement - United Kingdom
Last updated 29 Apr 2022
The Hémisphère Social Impact Fund aims to provide dedicated shelter accommodation for homeless people, refugees and asylum seekers across France.
Homelessness - Paris, France
Last updated 17 Dec 2021
The KOTO SIB is the first social impact bond to support refugees into employment. It was set up to facilitate access to employment for refugees and thereby accelerate their integration in Finland.
Social Impact Bond - Finland
Last updated 26 Jan 2022
The world’s first social impact guarantee adapts the YMCA's Vocational and Soft Skills Program to support youth into employment and education
Education | Youth engagement | Youth unemployment - Singapore
Last updated 04 Jan 2022
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.
Social Impact Bond | Education - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Last updated 04 Nov 2021
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.
Development Impact Bond | Education - Gujarat, India
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.
Social Impact Bond | Education - South Africa
Last updated 17 Oct 2019
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.
Development Impact Bond | Health - Cameroon
Last updated 12 Jan 2022
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.
Social Impact Bond | Youth unemployment - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Last updated 27 Jan 2020
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.
Last updated 22 Feb 2022