Browsing by Subject "social impact bond"

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    Innovative Finance Week 3 Video 5 - Outcomes-based financing
    (2019) de Witt, Susan
    This video focuses on outcome-based financing. The video starts off by defining what outcome-based funding is and what its strengths are. It also offers examples of these types of programs.The video discusses the need for working capital and social impact bonds help smaller organizations. The outcome funds and infrastructure impact bonds are also defined and discussed. This is video 5/7 in week 3 of the Innovative Finance: Hacking Finance to Change the World course.
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    Innovative Finance Week 4 Video 10 - Case studies discovering opportunities-
    (2019) Phiri, Lelemba
    This video is on case studies that are focused on finding opportunities. The first case study is of a Malawian initiative. The growth of the business and research process is discussed. Partnerships with other businesses are also discussed. The next case study is on early childhood development. Innovation in the space in the form of financial instruments is discussed. The different types of partnerships are also discussed. The next case study discusses risk perception amongst investors. It goes into how they worked on being appealing to potential investors whilst serving poorer people. It then discusses how they used their network, prior experiences and partnerships to raise capital by meeting the objectives of potential funders. The next case study talks about the work done with Bertha center on social impact bonds. They discuss the difficulties surrounding procurement processes. They also touch on social purpose vehicles (SPV). The next case study is for peer to peer learning platform. It discusses their partnerships and objectives and provides examples of work they have done already and the communities they are involved with. This is video 10/11 in week 4 of the Innovative Finance: Hacking Finance to Change the World course.
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    Innovative Finance Week 5 Video 6 - Designing for Impact - Western Cape Government
    (2019) Naledi, Tracey
    This video focuses on the Western Cape Government's case study. The video discusses how they sought to change the way they did their community based program. It goes onto discuss how the process was originally conducted before going into how they have changed how they ran their community based programs. The video then focuses on why they were interested in the social impact bond. It touches on how it decreases the risk for those investing in the community based programs. It also discusses how the social impact bonds created incentives for those running the projects to ensure the programs succeeded. The video then discusses how the outcome based approaches resulted in them gaining private partners to assist in funding the projects. This is video 6/8 in week 5 of the Innovative Finance: Hacking Finance to Change the World course.
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    Innovative Finance Week 5 Video 7 - Case studies wrap-up
    (2019) Patton, Aunnie
    This video individually looks at the case studies and the components from the course that they made use of. It discusses how Ashburton needed to address the perceived risks around the SMEs. It then discusses how Ashburton designed a guarantee mechanism that decreased the risk from the funders point of view. The video then talks about how Zoona noticed that the current available options did not meet the customers' needs. It then talka about how engagement with the end users helped meet the needs of the users. The video also discusses how the Western Cape Government needed to find a way to bring in more private funding and ensure that specific outcomes were met. It then discusses how the government then designed a social impact bond that brought in more private funders and create incentives to meet the specific outcomes for those running the projects. The video also goes into how the SDI is still in the design phase of their program. It touches on the opportunity the SDI has to make use of business model innovation and find new types of partners. It also touches on the importance of sustainable innovative financing for non-profits and how it is a journey and not a destination. The video then goes into how Innovation Edge has been moving from a purely grant organization to a venture philanthropy. This is video 7/8 in week 5 of the Innovative Finance: Hacking Finance to Change the World course.