{"id":37248,"date":"2023-10-31T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/?post_type=activity&#038;p=37248"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:39:55","slug":"impact-linked-fund-for-education-ilfe","status":"publish","type":"activity","link":"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/activity\/impact-linked-fund-for-education-ilfe\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact-Linked Fund for Education (ILFE)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Together with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eda.admin.ch\/sdc\">Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)<\/a> we have committed CHF 6 million in the new Impact-Linked Fund for Education. The Fund targets high-impact enterprises improving learning outcomes for children and youth in West Africa and MENA (Middle East and North Africa).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High-impact enterprises are important drivers of change in education. They often identify unmet needs of students or teachers or reveal insufficient, low-quality services of existing providers. They provide technology-enabled solutions, for example mobile phone-based learning or artificial intelligence assistance. Such solutions have a huge potential for reaching vulnerable and underserved groups such as rural youth or refugees. Launched in late 2021, ILFE is connecting high-impact enterprises and other market-based social organizations with reliable and suitable financing instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ILFE is part of the Impact-Linked Finance Fund, which provides finance to high-impact enterprises, offering them direct rewards for achieving positive outcomes. 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