Leveraging Finance and Scaling Up RBF/OBA

This activity aims to document and disseminate relevant examples of results-based financing (RBF), including output-based aid (OBA), that can be used in to leverage financing and scale up projects that provide access to basic services for poor and marginalized populations.  GPOBA is working to expand the understanding and use of RBF/OBA as one component in the overarching use of development finance. As recognized by the Addis agenda and resulting agreements and positions widely acknowledged in development finance, leveraging finance especially from the private sector and in local and regional markets remains an underutilized yet critical component of large scale efforts to increase access to basic services and promoting economic development.  The activity will provide specific examples to be disseminated, discussed and used by clients, donors, development practitioners and others in the use of RBF approaches.

GPRBA produced four case studies analyzing results-based blended finance initiatives in energy and sanitation in Bangladesh and Ghana, as well as a two-page brief, serving as a resource for clients and development partners. GPRBA undertook an evaluation of the ongoing OBA Sanitation Microfinance Program in Bangladesh, assessing the impact of the OBA subsidy on sanitation market development in rural Bangladesh, and supported consultant fees for the ICR. This activity also funded the ICR for the Nairobi sanitation project. The activity supported four country-focused knowledge exchanges to further the blended finance agenda in Accra, Dhaka, Paris, and Zimbabwe. Finally, the activity supported project pipeline development and supervision/knowledge dissemination of ongoing blended finance projects.