Building gender equity in skills and employment: Lessons from India’s Skill Impact Bond
Session Overview
In this session we will explore the latest findings from the implementation of India’s Skill Impact Bond, the world’s largest development impact bond in the skills sector. The Skill Impact Bond is dedicated to skills training and job placement using private sector capital and expertise. Its objective is to benefit 50,000 young Indians over four years, with 60% of the beneficiaries being women, and it focuses on job placement and retention, rather than on just training and certification.

In conversation with a diverse panel of experts, we will look at the impact that the programme has had and ask:

How can we leverage the demographic dividend balancing equity, employability, and empowerment?
How can we ensure that evidence generated is relevant, useful, and practical for concurrently improving programme performance?
How can the lessons learned be mainstreamed to support scale-up and sustainability beyond the life of the results-based financing programme?
We are delighted to be bringing together on the session perspectives from key project stakeholders with direct experience working on the programme– the evaluator, the performance manager and the outcomes funder. We will be joined by: Divya Nambiar and Phalasha Nagpal from OPML who will provide the evaluator perspective, Anushree Parekh from the British Asian Trust who will provide the performance manager perspective, and Vandana Bahri from CIFF who will bring in the outcome funder perspective.

Together we will explore what it takes to create actionable, youth-centric evidence that drives programmatic improvements, strategies for scaling and sustaining impact beyond the life of the programme, and practical insights inot how to build effective partnerships for better skills and employment outcomes for youth, especially women and young girls. In doing so, we aim to provide valuable insights for stakeholders (particularly practitioners) interested in outcomes-based funding, youth skills, and livelihoods sectors.
Date: 27 November 2024, 10:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: Online
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: Blavatnik School of Government
Organiser contact email address: kristina.vlasova@bsg.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://bsg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkd-Cpqz8uEtF1s3XqMIx30yoaKSgJbdG9#/registration
Cost: Free and open to all
Audience: Public
Editor: Kristina Vlasova