Webinar: The Global Landscape of Government Outcomes Funds – UNSW Centre for Social Impact in conversation with University of Oxford GO Lab

The Global Landscape of Government Outcomes Funds

In the wake of the Australian Federal Government’s recent commitment to establishing a $100 million Outcomes Fund, join us for a conversation to discuss the latest updates in the global landscape of outcomes funds, emerging research on design options, and key considerations for practical implementation. 

Featuring UNSW Centre for Social Impact Director Professor Danielle Logue and Dr Eleanor Carter, Researcher Director of the University of Oxford’s Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab), and evaluator of government outcome funds.

In this webinar you will learn:

• How to engage with outcomes funds
• Best practices for designing outcomes funds 
• How funds globally are being evaluated 
• How you and your social impact organisation can participate and benefit 

Guest Speakers

Dr Eleanor Carter

Dr Carter is Research Director of the Oxford Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab) at the Blatvanik School at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on innovations in social policy and outcomes-based commissioning. Prior to Oxford, Eleanor was an advisor for the Social Investment and Finance Team in the UK’s Cabinet Office and worked on collaborative research projects with the Department for Work and Pensions. She is regular advisor on policy design and evaluation strategies for government departments and voluntary sector organisations, and has published in a range of journals including Social Policy and Administration, Journal of Social Policy, and Journal of Economic Policy Reform.

Professor Danielle Logue

Professor Logue is the Director of the UNSW Centre for Social Impact and Professor of Innovation & Impact at UNSW Business School. Danielle's research portfolio draws on a broad base of organisation and management theory to examine how enterprises and markets engage in processes of social innovation. Recent projects investigate new forms of organising, governing, and financing to address social and environmental problems including impact investing, civic crowdfunding platforms, social stock exchanges, social impact bonds, and social enterprises. Danielle has led major external research contracts including for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Social Services, and the Wayside Chapel. She is currently Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Project examining impact investing markets and gender equality. Prior professional experience includes industry and innovation policy, business and international development for organisations such as the World Bank, and Australian Federal and State Departments of Industry.

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