Improving Social Impact Bonds: Assessing Alternative Financial Models to Scale Pay-for-Success

Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) represent a new and innovative tool for promoting social welfare. If implemented correctly, they could represent a new frontier for public-private partnerships and philanthropic-private contracts. The limitations on the private provisioning of social welfare programs are decreasing, and recent technology allows for more accurate cost-benefit analysis and the measurement of more meaningful performance indicators. Taken together, these factors increase the technical feasibility of SIBs

Stakeholder engagement in the Mekong River : relevant findings from the Blue Peace Index

For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Matus Samel, Consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit, explains that: "Top-down basin-level stakeholder engagement has been limited by the fact that the river's upstream states, China and Myanmar, are only 'dialogue partners', not full members, of the Mekong River Commission.