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5. Market Capacity — this includes investor willingness to take risks and to participate in the social investment process, access to expertise to design the SIB concept and the results evaluation system, and the availability of contractors to implement social impact bonds.
HOW SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS ARE SIMILAR
Social impact bonds (SIBs) emerged as a contractual mechanism at the junction of social investments and governmental social development programs. The original UK program, which laid the foundation for similar projects on a global scale, was based on the principles of long-term financing, regular monitoring of interim results, and the development of new tools for evaluating the social effect.
The British experience demonstrated the importance of having two additional participants within the project framework: the investor, the government, and the contractor benefit from the involvement of financial and expert mediators. The first type of mediator is concerned with coordinating transactions and managing contractual obligations. The second type of mediator reviews the project design, costs, and offers a social impact research toolkit.
The US experience solidified the understanding of SIBs as a tool within impact investing, whose organizational structure facilitated the development of more efficient social interventions and assessed their impact. It also demonstrated that large investors can offset the increased risks of participating in SIBs by economies of scale. Canada developed a format consisting of a conglomerate of investors, which allowed risk and expertise to be shared.
Negative experiences mainly stem from a failure to comply with the DREAM criteria (Demand from government, Regulatory framework, Economic and political context, Availability of data, Market capacity). For example, Portugal’s institutional environment led to SIBs duplicating existing community development funds. Canada’s experience was not successful because the stakeholder engagement scheme combined the roles of project operator and impact evaluator. The Danish experience was not extensive enough to build a results evaluation scheme, which in the context of roles mixed between the provider, project operator and evaluator, undermined project sustainability.
Investors need social impact bonds as an opportunity to enter the social investment sector at a relatively low cost. For the state, this type of project represents an option to outsource the social function and mitigate political risks in the event of failure. The market as a whole receives a new contractual mechanism and innovative impact assessment tools. The public benefits from improvements in a particular aspect of the social situation. And in general, all this means that such a tool is worth at least studying in more detail.
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