On July 5th, the year-one results of a three-year Educate Girls development impact bond (DIB) in India came out. Among the first of its kind, the DIB targets roughly 15,000 children and 166 government ...

You know that thing where you’re feeling guilty about that huge stack of unread Economist magazines, so you grab one and flip through it to make yourself feel better? So I was doing that, and I ran ...

Over the past five years, colleagues from the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) – a joint initiative between the Institute of Development Studies, Itad and University of East Anglia – have been ...

The term Contribution Analysis was introduced by the late John Mayne 25 years ago when he wanted to motivate people involved in development programmes to look at their rationale and impact critically.

The Development Impact Fund (DIF) is a pioneering multi-donor trust fund within the World Bank, managed by the Development Impact (DIME) group under the Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC).

Governments and NGOs are under more pressure than ever to find new ways of funding international development programmes. One promising option is the development impact bond, an innovative financial ...

New York, USA, 18 September 2025 – More than 1,000 global leaders, from government, business, international organisations, civil society and academia will gather from 22 to 26 September in New York ...

UBS Optimus Foundation is working to mobilize capital, knowledge and collaboration to protect life in around our oceans. We have 25+ years of track record and applying an investment-based approach, ...

The Development Impact Group’s Artificial Intelligence Team is pioneering the next frontier of impact evaluation and development programming. By leveraging AI and machine learning, our applied AI lab ...