Outcomes Hub for FfD4

Welcome to the Outcomes Hub for FfD4!

In response to the OFA community’s call at Summit 2025 in Cali to share and coordinate members’ activities at FfD4 in Sevilla, the OFA team is pleased to offer this dedicated space as a hub for collaboration for FfD4. Let’s connect to scale OBF!

OBF at FfD4: Activities in Sevilla and Around the Globe

Funding Barriers
Funding allocated at small scale on a project-by-project basis.Inadequate pipeline aligned to funder priorities.Access to seed funding for early stage concept developmentRegulatory and legal barriers.
Information Barriers
Limited understanding of relative merits vs. other instruments.Small body of evidence on value-for-money of instruments and benchmarks for pricing and risk.No common learning agenda.Detailed transaction information not shared or available publicly.
Information Barriers
Limited expertise inside commissioning organisations.High transaction costs and long lead times create disincentives for teams to test.Policies, systems, and processes not designed for outcomes-based commissioning (e.g., budgeting, procurement, paying investor returns).
Information Barriers
Fragmented funding landscape.Uncoordinated strategy and no platform(s) to coordinate priorities and test instruments at scale.

Targeting Barriers to Scale

The Outcomes Accelerator was conceived by address the key barriers impeding the market and catalyze the market’s capacity to translate learning from pilots into replication and scaling of impact.

Despite this growing interest outcomes-based financing approaches, the ecosystem remains in an early-learning phase.
Most transactions are a first-of-a-kind demonstration projects, often in a specific theme or geography, with long lead times. Outcomes payers, service providers and investors confront steep learning curves as parties gain experience. Donor agencies and domestic governments in developing countries remain constrained by low capacity, limited access to the skills and expertise and a range of institutional barriers and cultural disincentives that limit that testing and use of outcomes-based approaches.

Funding Barriers
Funding allocated at small scale on a project-by-project basis.Inadequate pipeline aligned to funder priorities.Access to seed funding for early stage concept developmentRegulatory and legal barriers.
Information Barriers
Limited understanding of relative merits vs. other instruments.Small body of evidence on value-for-money of instruments and benchmarks for pricing and risk.No common learning agenda.Detailed transaction information not shared or available publicly.
Skills & Capacity Barriers
Limited expertise inside commissioning organisations.High transaction costs and long lead times create disincentives for teams to test.Policies, systems, and processes not designed for outcomes-based commissioning (e.g., budgeting, procurement, paying investor returns).
Collective Action Barriers
Fragmented funding landscape.Uncoordinated strategy and no platform(s) to coordinate priorities and test instruments at scale.
Funding Barriers
Funding allocated at small scale on a project-by-project basis.Inadequate pipeline aligned to funder priorities.Access to seed funding for early stage concept developmentRegulatory and legal barriers.
Information Barriers
Limited understanding of relative merits vs. other instruments.Small body of evidence on value-for-money of instruments and benchmarks for pricing and risk.No common learning agenda.Detailed transaction information not shared or available publicly.
Information Barriers
Limited expertise inside commissioning organisations.High transaction costs and long lead times create disincentives for teams to test.Policies, systems, and processes not designed for outcomes-based commissioning (e.g., budgeting, procurement, paying investor returns).
Information Barriers
Fragmented funding landscape.Uncoordinated strategy and no platform(s) to coordinate priorities and test instruments at scale.
Funding Barriers
Funding allocated at small scale on a project-by-project basis.Inadequate pipeline aligned to funder priorities.Access to seed funding for early stage concept developmentRegulatory and legal barriers.
Information Barriers
Limited understanding of relative merits vs. other instruments.Small body of evidence on value-for-money of instruments and benchmarks for pricing and risk.No common learning agenda.Detailed transaction information not shared or available publicly.
Information Barriers
Limited expertise inside commissioning organisations.High transaction costs and long lead times create disincentives for teams to test.Policies, systems, and processes not designed for outcomes-based commissioning (e.g., budgeting, procurement, paying investor returns).
Information Barriers
Fragmented funding landscape.Uncoordinated strategy and no platform(s) to coordinate priorities and test instruments at scale.

Targeting Barriers to Scale

The Outcomes Accelerator was conceived by address the key barriers impeding the market and catalyze the market’s capacity to translate learning from pilots into replication and scaling of impact.

Despite this growing interest outcomes-based financing approaches, the ecosystem remains in an early-learning phase.
Most transactions are a first-of-a-kind demonstration projects, often in a specific theme or geography, with long lead times. Outcomes payers, service providers and investors confront steep learning curves as parties gain experience. Donor agencies and domestic governments in developing countries remain constrained by low capacity, limited access to the skills and expertise and a range of institutional barriers and cultural disincentives that limit that testing and use of outcomes-based approaches.

Funding Barriers
Funding allocated at small scale on a project-by-project basis.Inadequate pipeline aligned to funder priorities.Access to seed funding for early stage concept developmentRegulatory and legal barriers.
Information Barriers
Limited understanding of relative merits vs. other instruments.Small body of evidence on value-for-money of instruments and benchmarks for pricing and risk.No common learning agenda.Detailed transaction information not shared or available publicly.
Skills & Capacity Barriers
Limited expertise inside commissioning organisations.High transaction costs and long lead times create disincentives for teams to test.Policies, systems, and processes not designed for outcomes-based commissioning (e.g., budgeting, procurement, paying investor returns).
Collective Action Barriers
Fragmented funding landscape.Uncoordinated strategy and no platform(s) to coordinate priorities and test instruments at scale.
Funding Barriers
Funding allocated at small scale on a project-by-project basis.Inadequate pipeline aligned to funder priorities.Access to seed funding for early stage concept developmentRegulatory and legal barriers.
Information Barriers
Limited understanding of relative merits vs. other instruments.Small body of evidence on value-for-money of instruments and benchmarks for pricing and risk.No common learning agenda.Detailed transaction information not shared or available publicly.
Information Barriers
Limited expertise inside commissioning organisations.High transaction costs and long lead times create disincentives for teams to test.Policies, systems, and processes not designed for outcomes-based commissioning (e.g., budgeting, procurement, paying investor returns).
Information Barriers
Fragmented funding landscape.Uncoordinated strategy and no platform(s) to coordinate priorities and test instruments at scale.
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