12 Sep 2022
Keynote address by Professor Julie Battilana & panel discussion
Join us in Oxford or online for this year's Social Outcomes Conference, our annual convening of the world's leading researchers, policymakers and practitioners working to improve social outcomes.
In this blog, Louise Savell, Director at Social Finance, explores the emerging interest in the use of outcomes contracts for systems strengthening, and analyses two pathways through which the model might build the capacity of the wider system.
This case study reflects on the experience of the ‘In their hands’ project, the world’s first Development Impact Bond with a focus on adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
MHEP involves five place-based outcomes contracts (i.e., five SIB projects) that support people experiencing mental health issues or learning disabilities to find and remain in competitive, paid work in the UK.
WLZ designed a Collective Impact approach to leverage the local “social assets” around a shared vision. WLZ actively supports each partner and provides a Link Worker for each child, who builds a trusted, lasting relationship with the child.
IAAM supports children in the care of local authorities find permanent homes with adoptive families who had received therapeutic training to deal with their specific needs.