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Government’s role in Pay for Success
Pay for Success (PFS) financing mechanisms, including social impact bonds (SIBs), provide opportunities for multiple stakeholders with different expertise?government, private investors, foundations, and service providers?to work towards common goals. For government agencies at all levels, PFS mechanisms create opportunities for the public sector to reward ?what works? or expand access to evidence-based preventive social interventions without requiring taxpayers to shoulder all of the financial risk upfront. But in order for these new mechanisms to work, government must retain a central and ...