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This guide offers an introduction to outcomes-based contracting, including its place among other methods of contracting out public services, the theoretical pros and cons, and the evidence to date.

New to impact bonds? This user-friendly guide will explore what impact bonds are, the evidence to date and how they work in practice in different countries around the world.

This guide introduces outcomes funds. It explores what they are, their purpose and looks at their key features.

Social impact investing

This guide introduces social impact investing, offers key definitions and concepts. It also explores its relevant to impact bonds and outcomes-based contracts.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

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Explore our datasets, case studies and publications to learn more about the latest research on outcomes-based contracting

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A collection of in-depth case studies of impact bonds around the world

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Impact bond lifecycle

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We have a range of guidance to support you develop impact bonds, from setting and measuring outcomes, to awarding the contract and pricing outcomes.

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We've partnered with Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy(CIPFA) to develop a toolkit for public managers planning to assess VfM of outcomes-based contracting programmes, or any public programme with an outcome-focus.

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Social impact bonds: an overview of the global market for commissioners and policymakers

Publication date 2017

Organisation Centre for Public Impact

A whole new world: funding and commissioning in complexity

Publication date 2017

Organisation Collaborate

Just another paperclip? Rethinking the market for complex public services

Publication date 2017

Organisation Business Services Association

Practical guide

Making sense of social prescribing

Publication date 2017

Organisation University of Westminster

Impact bonds in developing countries: early learnings from the field

Publication date 2017

Organisation Brookings Institution

Directory of social impact bond (SIB) investment funds

Publication date 2017

Organisation Big Lottery Fund

Practical guide

Glossary of key terms

Publication date 2017

Organisation Big Lottery Fund

Guidance on template contract for social impact bonds and payment by results

Publication date 2017

Organisation Centre for Social Impact Bonds

SIB template contract

Publication date 2017

Organisation Centre for Social Impact Bonds

A review of the evidence assessing impact of social prescribing on healthcare demand and cost implications

Publication date 2017

Organisation University of Westminster

Scale finance: industrial-strength social impact bonds for mainstream investors

Publication date 2017

Organisation Centre for Community Development Investments, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Evaluation report

Step-down program evaluation: report of the preliminary findings

Publication date 2017

Organisation Rees Centre, University of Oxford

Faulty by design. The state of public-service commissioning.

Publication date 2017

Organisation Reform

Encouraging innovation in local government procurement

Publication date 2017

Organisation Local Government Association

Evaluation report

HMP Peterborough Social Impact Bond - cohort 2 and final cohort impact evaluation

Publication date 2017

Organisation National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Evaluation report

Development impact bonds: learning from the Asháninka cocoa and coffee case in Peru

Publication date 2017

Evaluation report

Reconnections Evaluation Interim Report

Publication date 2016

Organisation Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Evaluation report

ThinkForward: Evaluation report and executive summary

Publication date 2016

Organisation Sheffield Hallam University

Social impact bonds: state of play and lessons learnt

Publication date 2016

Organisation The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Social impact bonds, the early years

Publication date 2016

Organisation Social Finance

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