• Impact investing: A closer look

    What is it? It’s a growing field of financial and social innovation. In short, it is, “investment where specific social objectives are set and measured,” says Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the International Social Impact ...

    5Impact investing, innovative finance

  • How to give your impact measurement a makeover (#1)

    The numbers are telling. While 86.9% of organisations in South Africa’s development sector consider impact measurement a crucial process, a whole 61.7% of them recognise that they don’t do enough of it. Let’s think about ...

    5Impact measurement

  • African innovation: The leapfrogs and left-behinds

    For all the excitement about innovation in Africa, one cannot simply use it to “leapfrog” over all problems. And where does that leave the role of society and state? First, some questions: 1 Is the ...

    5Essays in Question, Opinion

  • Innopinion 2: Make frontline innovation visible and change the system from the inside out

    Across the planet, every day, nurses, doctors and their colleagues wrestle with the challenge of delivering healthcare to those who most need it. Many agree that to enable improvement, we need to learn what works ...

    4Healthcare Innovation, Innopinion, Opinion

  • Destination Education (#1)

    Despite significant government spend, the education system in South Africa is failing our learners. Results are significantly weaker than those of learners in our poorer sub-Saharan neighbour, Zimbabwe, which seems baffling on the surface. But ...

    3Destination Education, Early Childhood Development, Education

INSIDE|OUT is a newspaper about social innovation in the real world.

This is its home in the online world. Explore innovation from the inside out.

A handful of thoughts on innovative finance…


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Issue number 5 of Inside|Out focuses on new ways of financing social impact. These new ways – including impact bonds, impact investing, venture philanthropy and ...

We asked the industry: How do you see innovative finance changing investment or philanthropy in South Africa?


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The Academic – Dr Stephanie Giampocaro, Research Director and senior lecturer, UCT Graduate School of Business “Innovative finance – which in Africa today mainly takes ...

The New (not-so-Oxford) Dictionary of Innovative Finance


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Innovative finance is a new and growing field. It’s also the source of many questions, like how is it defined? How is it practiced, internationally ...

Innovative Finance in South Africa


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There is great potential for innovative financing in South Africa. As the country has moved towards middle-income status, donor capital has decreased and the government ...

Many sectors, many branches


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Innovative finance is not limited to a specific society, sector or need. Players from various sectors tell us how they use it in their work. ...

How to give your impact measurement a makeover (#2)


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If you’re paralysed by the belief that your work is “unmeasurable” or by the fear of not being sufficiently accurate, you will never start the ...

Impact measurement: How to do it properly


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1. Include M&E as part of the project plan Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) doesn’t have to be long and intensive. It can be streamlined and ...