ISB provides the initial financial backing to projects that demonstrate the capacity to achieve sustainability.

The ISB is about joined up government, forging new alliances, creating partnerships and promoting innovation by sharing risks involved in new types of delivery so that the public can get the benefit of a more integrated package of services.

ISB learns and disseminates lessons from the successes and failures of the projects, so that it can inform the design of future service delivery by partnerships across the public sector.

There is an ISB unit, which looks over the ISB programme working to create an environment in which more people know about ISB, and are better able to access the lessons that are being learnt through the programme.

ISB has many avenues it uses to disseminate the lessons learned from its projects. ISB assemble a programme of events, for example seminars and workshops, which bring together project managers and others to digest and exchange their experiences to date. Other means of disseminating best practice are through publications, articles and this dedicated website and database.

The ISB is moving through an interesting phase. We are beginning to find out how much of the promise offered by the projects supported has been fulfilled. And ensure that the findings are made known to as wide an audience as possible.   More detail...