After Pay for Success: Doubling Down on What Works
When a pay-for-success project succeeds in improving social outcomes, governments should establish a new performance-based contract to continue to scale successful programs.
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UP FOR DEBATE
The Payoff of Pay-for-Success
Up for debate: The pay-for-success model will have a positive impact, just not in the way that many proponents think. Includes additional, online-only responses from a variety of thought leaders.
Competing Principles
Race to the Top, a $4 billion US education reform effort, produced valuable lessons on designing a competition-based program.
Conditions of Engagement
By imposing requirements on recipients, cash transfer programs can “push” them to develop habits of civic participation.
Knowledge Versus Power
Instead of building an independent base of expertise, many NGOs in China focus on retaining ties to government agencies.
Does Group Contact Make Good Citizens?
In developing countries such as Kenya, interaction with NGOs appears to boost people’s level of civic activity.
Lean Management in Health Care Delivery Is Late
The current health care market consistently fails the world’s poorest people. Increasing efficiencies and an influx of innovation are overdue.
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Five Programmatic Lessons in Scaling Impact
A look at how a number of Social Innovation Fund subgrantees are successfully developing program strategies for greater growth and impact.
Big and Fast Is Not Better
Building relationships with grassroots organizations that advocate for human rights-based development takes time, but without investing in them, philanthropy is likely to stumble. The case of Haiti is instructive.
21st-Century Refugee Protection
Today’s 60 million displaced people have a basic need beyond food, water, and shelter: legal representation.