Roots of Impact, one of SDC's the networks prime partner, put in place "Emergency SIINC" to enable entrepreneurs to repay capital with positive impact. It enables public and catalytic funders to sustain what they have been building with a lot of effort over the years. Don't get us wrong, this is not a new solution. It's a quickly feasible application of our signature Social Impact Incentives for exceptional times of crisis.

NextBillion launched a resource page gathering information on emerging opportunity trends, and events that can help impact-focused businesses and initiatives weather the crisis.

IMPACT BONDS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: Early Learnings from the Field

In 2015, the Brookings Institution published a report on the potential and limitations of impact bonds, which chronicled the development of the first 38 impact bonds in high income countries and analyzed the landscape (Gustafsson-Wright et al., 2015). This report takes the field further forward, exploring the lessons learned in the development of impact bonds in low- and middle income countries, bringing together the findings from interviews with stakeholders and research into the impact bond space conducted by the authors over the course of a year. In addition, the report draws on discussions from an intensive daylong workshop held in London in November 2016, in which impact bond practitioners from developing countries shared their experiences and early lessons learned. The report includes a Deal Book with detailed fact sheets for all impact bonds in developing countries, featuring both the four contracted and 24 in design phases, as of August 1, 2017.

Over the past two years, we have developed a new approach to social performance measurement, collecting data from more than 13,000 customers across 32 of our portfolio companies. We call it Lean Data.

Our aim with Lean Data is to set the standard for consumer based data collection in the impact investing sector, enabling investors to take measurement to the next level and provide real value to customers, companies, and those that support them. By leveraging technology and more efficient data collection methods, Lean Data allows growing enterprises to quickly and affordably collect high quality data on social performance, customer feedback, and customer behaviour. New technologies allow for a high level of iteration when it comes to measurement. We believe this is critical for a growing enterprise as knowledge on social performance is most effectively collected in a step-wise manner, rather than all at once. One of the specific goals of Lean Data is to support the repeated collection of meaningful metrics that add value to multiple stakeholders and enable data-driven decisions.