Deliver Public Value More Effectively Through Outcome-Based Ecosystems and Sustainable Finance
Context
Governments at all levels are under increasing pressure to address urgent societal challenges—ranging from climate, health, and housing to workforce participation and youth development. At the same time, many governments face tight or shrinking budgets, rising accountability demands, and pressure to achieve more with legacy systems and fragmented delivery models.
Even when the mission is clear, governments often struggle to mobilize the right actors, measure outcomes, or sustain funding for what works.
How Impact@Scale helps
Impact@Scale equips government organizations to transition from direct delivery and fragmented programs to strategic ecosystem participation. By embedding public goals into cross-sector ecosystems—aligned through shared outcomes, benefit-sharing, and verified impact infrastructure—governments can:
- Leverage their existing role as anchor institutions and funders
- Activate partnerships with private, civic, and community actors
- Enable systemic change without expanding bureaucratic capacity
- Build a foundation for sustainable, outcome-based financing
This approach strengthens your government’s ability to govern by outcomes, steward systemic transformation, and sustain public trust over time.
Key Benefits
Enable Sustainable, Shared Financing
Monetize avoided costs and unlock blended finance from private and philanthropic partners through shared benefit models
Align Cross-Sector Collaboration Around Outcomes
Move beyond ad-hoc partnerships by embedding public goals into structured, measurable ecosystems
Deliver Mission Outcomes More Coherently
Link fragmented initiatives into a coherent strategy with shared infrastructure and accountability
Strengthen Measurability and Legitimacy
Use robust verification to track societal outcomes and communicate results to citizens and stakeholders
Activate Existing Institutions More Strategically
Use your data, delivery systems, and governance tools to enable—not own—impact at scale
Example Use Case
IApplying the Impact@Scale approach, a national ministry of education shifts its strategy from isolated programs to ecosystem coordination. By enabling regions to build shared value streams around school-to-work transitions—with employers, municipalities, educators, and civil society—the ministry supports measurable outcomes, monetizes avoided costs, and enables long-term co-financing without increasing its direct programmatic footprint.
At a local level, a municipality partners with other ecosystem actors to align housing, employment, and health investments—making its budgets more resilient and its interventions more effective.
What this means for your organization
Impact@Scale gives governments a new way to deliver public value—by structuring how outcomes are created, verified, and supported across sectors. You remain the steward of the public mission, but no longer need to act alone. This is governance for the 21st century: collaborative, data-driven, and outcome-oriented.