Designing outcomes-based financing solutions that deliver measurable results.
Brubaker Impact Advisory works with governments, foundations, and development partners to design programs that combines rigorous evidence, practical implementation insights, and innovative financing approaches to deliver strong social impact and demonstrable value for money.
Our Services
Outcomes-Based Financing Design
We support governments, funders, and implementation partners to design and implement outcomes-based financing mechanisms that align incentives around measurable results and strengthen accountability for impact.
Services may include:
Training on the fundamentals of outcomes-based financing
Feasibility assessments for outcomes-based financing initiatives
Design of payment structures and outcome metrics
Development of outcome metrics and verification approaches
Financial and impact modelling
Development of outcomes funds and impact bonds
Procurement strategy and contracting design support
Investor and outcome funder engagement
Implementation planning and partnership structuring
Data-driven Implementation Support
Strong evidence and monitoring systems are critical for improving program performance and demonstrating value for money. We support partners to develop rigorous measurement frameworks generate credible evidence while continuously improving program delivery.
Services may include:
Monitoring and evaluation framework design
Creation of data collection and monitoring tools
Management information system design
Research strategy and impact evaluation design
Cost-effectiveness and value-for-money analysis
Creation of learning and adaptive management processes
Process evaluation
Technical capacity building for service providers
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About us
Brubaker Impact Advisory supports the design and implementation of outcomes-based financing approaches that strengthen results and demonstrate clear value for money.
We provide hands-on support across the full lifecycle of results-based programs, from stakeholder engagement, resource mobilization, rigorous research, structuring and impact modelling to monitoring systems, adaptive management, impact measurement, strategic communications and policy engagement.
Brubaker Impact Advisory is led by Celeste Brubaker, an international development specialist with over a decade of experience designing outcomes-based financing programs and impact measurement systems.
As former Chief of Impact and Innovative Financing at Village Enterprise, Celeste launched the organization’s impact-first initiative and oversaw its global impact measurement systems.
Highlighted Publications
Celeste Brubaker’s work on outcomes-based financing, impact measurement, and economic inclusion has been featured in leading development and philanthropy outlets.
“Transforming Economic Inclusion: Government Innovations through Outcomes-Based Financing” – World Bank PEI in Practice, June 2025. https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099005406102518063.
“Opinion: The US aid crisis is an opportunity for outcome-based finance” – Devex, March 2025. https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-the-us-aid-crisis-is-an-opportunity-for-outcome-based-finance-109606
“Comment: How can companies help alleviate global poverty, and meet their ESG targets” – The Ethical Corporation Magazine, October 2024. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/comment-how-companies-can-help-alleviate-global-poverty-meet-their-esg-targets-2024-10-08/
“Unlocking measurable outcomes: The role of impact marketplaces in philanthropy” – Philanthropy Impact, Autumn 2024. https://www.philanthropy-impact.org/media/0sghcy54/philanthropy-impact-magazine-issue-31.pdf
“Opinion: How USAID can scale and evidence-based approach in its grantmaking” – Devex, January 2024. https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-how-usaid-can-scale-an-evidence-based-approach-in-its-granting-106950
“Philanthropy’s “Toyota moment”. Embracing results-based funding to increase aid effectiveness” – Inside Philanthropy, November 2023. https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2023-11-29-philanthropys-toyota-moment-embracing-results-based-funding-to-increase-aid-effectiveness
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