Instiglio is an open-source aggregator that tracks Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and Development Impact Bonds (DIBS) in the design and implementation stage for public review. When we last checked in (June of 2016) Instiglio listed roughly 80 SIB/DIB projects, today 120 are enumerated on the website, a 50% increase that promises at least some interesting movement in the sector.

DIBs, SIBs, Green Impact Bonds, pay for results, pay for results financing, pay for success, pay for performance, evidence-based funding, results driven contracting, outcome funding.

Of the 120 listed, 115 are in the ‘implementation stage’, of those 115, 15% are being implemented in the US, 36% in the U.K and only .8% in the Global South (1 project in India). Leading us to the general conclusion that although there are alternative pay for success projects not accounted for in Instiglio’s count that go by other names, such as the innovative Yunus Social Business/Rockefeller Social Success Note Program, or some of the World Bank’s Pay for Results Financingprojects (52 approved as of October 2016), thus far the pay for success models are usually finding implementation status in developed countries.

Read the full article on pay for success by Lexi Doolittle at Medium