Last month, DFID launched the United Kingdom’s first development impact bond (DIB) intended to reduce Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda. The launch of the DIB represents a number of exciting features of how development can be approached.
Last month, DFID launched the United Kingdom’s first development impact bond (DIB) intended to reduce Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda. Details of how this might ultimately look are outlined as a case study in this excellent report by the Center for Global Development’s DIB working group. In short, the DIB (based on social impact bonds in the U.K., U.S.