Concurrent deep dives
Theme: Procurement and Social Value
Deep Dive 1.1 Achieving wider wellbeing through public procurement?
We have pushed governments to buy more efficiently for decades. Now, facing enormous public crises, we also want our governments to use the purchasing power in public contracts to achieve wider economic, social, and environmental policy goals. Is public procurement ready for this important role? In this session we consider the promises and practical challenges associated with ‘sustainable public procurement’, ‘buying social’, ‘community benefit clauses’, ‘social value’, and similar movements around the world.
This session will include a short panel discussion on what government might do to enable Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations to help achieve wider social and community benefit outcomes in public contracts.
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Presentations
So far, Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) has been implemented mainly through environmental policies and a few labour policies in the social dimension.
With this paper, we intend to discuss whether …
Raquel Carvalho
Overview of the project or approach to be discussed in the presentation
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Main reflections and insights from the work to date
Main reflections include:
- Health …
Mat Ilic
Catch22
Jonathan Bland
E3M
Julian Blake
Stone King
In 2021, the UK became the first nation in the world to mandate the evaluation of Social Value in procurement at the central government level (PPN06/20); a policy further adopted …
Sandra Hamilton
University of Manchester
The last couple of years have put unprecedented pressures on the healthcare systems due to COVID-19, a surge in ailments due to climate change, changing public behaviour, skill shortages and …
Vaishali Baid
Action Sustainability
Martin Toomey
NHS Supply Chain
This paper highlights transparency gaps in the growing use of public spending through contracts to achieve economic, social, or environmental policy goals in local areas. These goals are in addition …
Dr Ruairi Macdonald
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Dr Clare FitzGerald
King's College London
Chair:
Claire Dove CBE
UK Government
Chair
Theme: Place-based partnerships
Deep Dive 1.2 Learning to let go: how can central government (re)build local governance capacity to support the levelling up agenda?
Evidence from efforts at local regeneration from around the world suggests that if the UK Government’s levelling up agenda is to achieve all that it promises, it will require a fundamental reshaping of the relationship between central and local government, to facilitate the key role that local and regional institutions have to play. In the UK, the ‘hollowing out’ of local government has left a lack of local governance capacity that will need to be addressed if places are to bridge inequalities. Devolution has become almost synonymous with the Government’s flagship domestic policy agenda, but past efforts suggest a reluctance for government to relinquish control.
In this deep dive panel, we will explore how central government might best support local institutions to (re)build local governance capacity. We will examine evidence for the importance of local governance in international examples; discuss original GO Lab research on central-local relationships in past efforts to join up public services in the UK, expanding on a framework for local governance models; explore practical examples of these different models in an effort to better understand their potential to support better governance; and consider how the government should move forward.
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Presentations
The Home Win and Place-Based Renewal team at the Blavatnik School of Government have been examining the lessons that efforts to level up Britain’s regions can draw from international success …
Ian Taylor
University of Oxford
Susanne Frick
Government Outcomes Lab
Camden Council's overarching approach to public service delivery centres around improving life for residents and people in the borough, and as such a focus on people's wellbeing outcomes. This approach …
Michal Shinwell
Camden Council
The Refugee Transition Outcome Fund (“RTOF”) is one of the streams of funding that has been made available through The Treasury Shared Outcome Fund. This was designed to encourage departments …
Conor Sullivan
Bridges Outcomes Partnerships
Over the last 25 years, the UK Government has launched over 50 initiatives to attempt to join up local complex public service provision. Michael and Felix will explore how central …
Michael Gibson
University of Oxford
Dr Felix-Anselm van Lier
University of Oxford
One of the challenges of the energy transition is the phasing-out of coal in carbon-intensive regions. In Germany, the federal government has declared to phase out coal by 2038 and …
Benjamin Klement
Fraunhofer IMW
Chair:
Ciaran Martin
Blavatnik School of Government
Chair
Theme: Outcomes-based contracting
Deep Dive 1.3 Beyond impact bonds: unlocking investment for outcomes-focused social programmes
Outcomes-based partnerships, such as impact bonds, are often seen as a way to attract funding from diverse investors for socio-environmental initiatives. How effective have approaches such as impact bonds been so far in unlocking impact investment to help tackle entrenched social problems? Beyond impact bonds, what other outcomes-focused mechanisms are emerging to fund cross-sector partnerships for better social outcomes?
In this session we will explore how to use outcomes-focused funding to better align social and financial objectives while dealing with multiple (and often conflicting) goals of stakeholders. We will attempt to foster understanding of the perspectives of various investor groups, including philanthropic foundations, impact investing funds, and financially-oriented organisations.
We hope insights could be of use for unlocking sustainable investment across policy areas worldwide.
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Presentations
While philanthropic foundations in the United States are increasingly participating in impact investing, little is known about how they choose to invest in particular models or projects. This study sought …
Megan Goulding
USC Price Center for Social Innovation
The impact investing market is increasing by size and market players – in Europe and worldwide. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) estimates the market size at USD 715 billion …
Luigi Corvo
University of Milan Bicocca
In the Netherlands, care is financed through a complicated arrangement of health care insurer, national government and municipalities. At the HIB Standing Strong which will be launched in summer 2022 …
Ruben Koekoek
Social Finance NL
Daphne Salvino
Development Impact Bond (DIB) is seen as a remarkable innovative financing mechanism for leveraging resources from the private sector and increasing the overall performance of technical cooperation projects. The number …
Giorgi Todua
UNIDO
Social Impact Bonds (SIB), one of the most common forms of outcomes-based approaches, has had some success in achieving two key goals that it was originally set out to do: …
Sikai Chen
Tri-Sector
Nadia Samdin
Tri-Sector
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The Gauteng Partnership Fund (GPF), as an entity of the Provincial Department of Human Settlements, is a funding and implementing agent, responsible for integrated, sustainable human settlement …
Mandy Jayakody
Gauteng Partnership Fund
Simphiwe Ndlovu
Gauteng Partnership Fund
Chair:
Salim Bensmail
Meridiam
Chair
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