Sarah Osborne

Cover image: Primary school students in a learning session, Delhi. Image credit: British Asian Trust.

From evidence to scale: Lessons learned from the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Sarah Osborne, and Aditi Shankar

Monday, November 14, 2022

digital tools in education report

Digital tools for real-time data collection in education

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Sarah Osborne, and Muskan Aggarwal

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Hopscotch.

Social and development impact bonds by the numbers

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Izzy Boggild-Jones, Onyeka Nwabunnia, and Sarah Osborne

Friday, October 14, 2022

Breaking the cycle of poverty through innovative finance

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Children wearing masks sit in a classroom at a school in Mumbai August 10, 2009. Masks were distributed by Shiv Sena, the Hindu hardline party, at the school to as a preventive measure against the H1N1 influenza outbreak in western India. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe (INDIA HEALTH SOCIETY POLITICS EDUCATION)

A review of the global impact bonds market in 2021 and what to expect in 2022

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Sarah Osborne

Thursday, January 6, 2022

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA- Students return to classrooms, amid the easing of quarantine and the gradual opening of the country in Durban, South Africa on June 8, 2020. Since March 19, the beginning of strict confinement decreed by the president Cyril Ramaphosa to combat the covid-19 pandemic, South African schools had been closed. By virtue of a relaxation, this Monday (8) the secondary classes were officially resumed throughout the territory. (NO RESALE)

How have impact bond-funded projects in low- and middle-income countries fared in COVID-19?

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Sarah Osborne, and Emily Crane

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

An engaged and happy classroom.

How can real-time performance data lead to better education outcomes?

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Sarah Osborne, and Aarushi Sharma

Thursday, May 6, 2021

Children learn at a daycare.

What are the barriers to cost data on education and early childhood development?

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Sarah Osborne

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Recife, Brazil.- Children attend schools in Recife, Brazil on September 15, 2020. This Tuesday (15) the world reached 29,610,479 infections and 935,898 deaths from Covid-19, however, the World Organization of Health (WHO), reiterated to the countries that keeping schools closed should be the last resort.

Harnessing private capital and tying funding to results to build back better

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Sarah Osborne

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Two girls wear masks.

What a year: A review of the global impact bonds market in 2020

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Sarah Osborne

Thursday, January 7, 2021