Developing an action plan for ESIF financial instruments

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To ensure a comprehensive and efficient process for implementation of financial instruments, managing authorities and other stakeholders may refer to the action plan described in this fi-compass video, which structures the lifecycle of financial instruments along four phases: design, set-up, implementation and winding-up.

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European Social Fund financial instruments supporting self-employment and entrepreneurship

European Social Fund financial instruments supporting self-employment and entrepreneurship

Vienna saw the first thematic fi‑compass workshop on European Social Fund (ESF) financial instruments supporting self‑employment and entrepreneurship under Thematic Objective 8. This full day workshop was attended by representatives from ESF managing authorities, financial intermediaries, and other stakeholders from across the EU.

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Growing the Social Investment Market: The Landscape and Economic Impact

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The report highlights more nuanced aspects of the UK social investment market. Smaller Social Investment Finance Intermediaries (SIFIs) are leading the way in product innovation, having completed a number of small deals across a range of new and interesting products. Clearly, opportunities do exist for greater funding of these organisations to help them reach scale and sustainability.

Designing microfinance operations in the EU - A manual on how to build and implement microfinance support programmes using ESF

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The COPIE Access to Finance baseline study carried out in 2009 shows that despite the high importance and growing recognition of self-employment, micro-business and microcredit at EU level, national ESF and ERDF bodies have only very marginally taken up these issues in their National Reform Plans and the associated Operational Programmes.

A solution to the student loan crisis: human capital contracts

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This Note proposes a novel financing scheme, characterised by private equity investments in higher education, as a solution to the student loan crisis. As first proposed by economist Milton Friedman, human capital contracts are financial instruments with which students can receive private capital to fund their educational pursuits in exchange for a certain percentage of their future earnings.

A guide to Social Return on Investment

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The purpose of this guide is to standardise practice, develop the methodology, and provide more clarity on the use of social return on investment. It has been written for people who want to measure and analyse the social, environmental and economic value being generated by their activities or by the activities they are funding or commissioning.
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Action planning for financial instrument life cycles: new fi-compass advisory video

Action planning for financial instrument life cycles: new fi-compass advisory video

A newly released fi-compass video explains how to successfully plan financial instruments that use the European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds. This new video from fi-compass provides a summary of the fi-compass publication entitled 'Developing an Action Plan'. It follows a step-by-step approach along the four main life cycle stages of a financial instrument: design, set-up, implementation, and winding-up.

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