Structuring the capital that turns classrooms into transformational outcomes.
The Challenge
Over 300 million children lack basic literacy and numeracy skills. The annual education finance gap in developing countries is estimated at $3.9T. Traditional aid models are insufficient at scale.
Innovative finance mechanisms including Development Impact Bonds, results-based financing, and blended structures offer powerful tools for directing private and institutional capital toward measurable learning outcomes.
Our Approach
Structure pay-for-results mechanisms that tie capital returns to measurable learning outcomes literacy rates, numeracy scores, school completion.
Coordinate 10+ stakeholders government, philanthropic funders, service providers, outcome funders, independent evaluators into a single coherent financial structure.
Engage institutional investors and impact investors in the education impact bond market building the investor base and pipeline for future transactions.
Financial Instruments
Pay-for-results instruments where investors are repaid by outcome funders only if pre-agreed targets are achieved aligning financial returns with social outcomes.
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Government-backed results-based financing where private capital funds social services and is repaid from government savings upon outcome achievement.
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Blended finance facilities combining grant, concessional, and commercial capital to fund school infrastructure, teacher training, and digital learning at scale.
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Disbursement-linked indicator frameworks for donors and DFIs ensuring capital flows only upon verified achievement of education milestones.
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BwB assisted in the issuance of the US$11M Quality Education India DIB a four-year, pay-for-results programme improving literacy and numeracy for 200,000 primary school students across India, in collaboration with 15+ partners. QEI students learnt 2.5× those in non-participating schools. 2× as many students achieved age-appropriate learning levels.
Talk to our Education Finance team. BwB has structured the world's largest education impact bond.