Investment bonds: ‘The outcome is not measured by money but by impact’ - The Mail & Guardian

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Investment returns are primarily measured in financial terms, but social impact bonds (SIBs) — also known as pay-for-success bonds — are shifting mindsets from this to returns that genuinely have an impact.

However, according to Intellidex, the process was able to place 1 800 unemployed youth from disadvantaged backgrounds into relatively complex and well-paying jobs. was launched in Cape Town. The fund tested the efficacy of a home-based early learning programme for pre-primary school age children and their caregivers in low-income areas in the Cape Town metropolitan area.

The bonds aimed to deliver results in areas where several similar programmes had not been effective while also bringing the investment capital, Khan explained. “This bigger amount balanced out the additional costs of the new and untested financial instrument. However, bigger investments imply more service delivery. And for meaningful social change to happen, the kinds of services delivered in the IBIF and Bonds4Jobs would need to be delivered to many more people’’, the report says.

“One of the reasons for this is the transactions tend to be small, and not worth the disproportionate transaction costs,” it says.

 

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