This article makes a significant contribution to our understanding of coordination programmes at a central–local government level.
In January 2023, Nigel Ball and Loic Menzie convened a roundtable to explore how a better balance can be struck between efficiency and resilience. This report sets out a number of ideas emerged from the discussion.
For this engaging with evidence webinar session, we explored the latest findings from the first interim report of the Mental Health and Employment Partnership (MHEP) evaluation for the Life Chances Fund (LCF).
The Wisbech Partnership was a voluntary place-based partnership of cross-sector organisations working to improve the social outcomes in the Cambridgeshire town. This case study examines the phenomena.
Discover the International Network for Data on Impact and Government Outcomes (INDIGO). Here you can explore our datasets, join our events and find out more about data sharing in the field of social outcomes.
For this engaging with evidence webinar session, we explored preventative spending in children's social care..
This is the first of three planned reports within a longitudinal evaluation of the Mental Health and Employment Partnership (MHEP).
The Western European cities of Lille in France and Bilbao in Spain are marked examples of economic resilience. This case study looks at cluster development, skills formation, funding and governance among the attributable factors for success.
The Anglo-Saxon case studies of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Windsor, Ontario, and Newcastle, New South Wales show how cities can use innovative instruments, such as tax increment financing, asset recycling and municipal bonusing, to galvanise collaboration
Want to know more about the state of play of impact bonds? Explore our global interactive map to find out data on impact bonds in their various stages of development and policy areas.
INDIGO Impact Bond Insights Report - Feb 2023, co-authored by Outes Velarde, J. Bregazzi, H., Nagarajan, S., Paul, O., Anastasiu, A. & Carter, E., has been published.
The German cities of Duisburg, Dortmund and Leipzig are examined in detail by German researchers Dr Suzanne Frick, based at the University of Oxford, and Dr Paula Prenzel based at the University of Greifswald.
This article delves into the exploration of risk management in public contracts through a relational approach.
For this engaging with evidence webinar session, we explored the final results of the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond (DIB).
New to outcomes-based contracting and social impact bonds? Discover the basics about these innovative approaches to the provision of public services.
This communiqué summarises the conversation that took place at the University of Oxford’s Tackling Spatial Inequalities Roundtable featuring senior cross-sector representatives to reinvigorate the agenda to level up the social outcomes across the UK.
This report focuses on practical issues related to the interplay of public contracting rules and social outcomes contracts in Europe
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This guide has been developed to explain concretely what relational working between organisations is and how to do it, to support people to experiment more boldly with such approaches – and importantly, to help manage some of the risks inherent in them.
We have a range of guidance to support you develop impact bonds, from setting and measuring outcomes, to awarding the contract and pricing outcomes.
This report offers an overview of the existing empirical literature on environmental OBC, and a summary of key findings from across the evidence, including the challenges and successes of project implementation and some indications of the environmental ou
The INDIGO Impact Bond Dataset is the most comprehensive publicly available dataset on impact bond projects. This report provides headline insights and analysis based on the dataset, offering an accessible overview of the global landscape.
This case study reflects on the experience of the ‘In Their Hands’ (ITH) project, the world’s first Development Impact Bond (DIB) with a focus on adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
Read the Government Outcomes Lab and CIPFA’s report on the advances in pharmaceutical and carbon pricing, which seeks to explore transferrable insights for financing social outcomes amidst heightened uncertainty and budgetary pressures.