Vietnam Quality Improvement of Primary Education for Deaf Children Project (QIPEDC)
The development objective of the QIPEDC Project was to increase primary school-aged deaf children’s access to Vietnamese Sign Language (VSL) and improve their learning outcomes. Thanks to the project’s interventions, nearly 2,000 deaf students in 20 provinces across Vietnam were given the…
Date: 2023
Type: GPRBA Publication
GPRBA Annual Report 2022
As of June 30, 2022, the GPRBA portfolio consisted of 58 subsidy projects in 7 sectors, spanning over 30 countries and 1 territory, for a total grant commitment of $304.7 million and cumulative disbursements of $224.8 million. The portfolio continued to maintain a strong focus on International…
Date: 2022
Type: Annual Reports
Output-Based Aid for Solid Waste Management in Nepal
This case study is part of a series to highlight project components that have enabled GPRBA to successfully deploy results-based finance (RBF) approaches for the provision of basic services to low-income communities, with efficiency, transparency and accountability. This analysis focuses on the…
Date: 2022
Type: GPRBA Case Study
Tags: Solid Waste Management, Fragile Situations, Urban
Output-Based Aid Sanitation Facility for Greater Accra in Ghana
This case study is part of a series to highlight project components that have enabled GPRBA to successfully deploy results-based finance (RBF) approaches for the provision of basic services to low-income communities,with efficiency, transparency and accountability. This analysis is focused on…
Date: 2021
Type: GPRBA Case Study
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Uganda Reproductive Health Voucher Project
This case study is part of a series prepared by the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA). The objective is to highlight project components that have enabled GPRBA to successfully deploy results-based finance (RBF) approaches for the provision of basic services to…
Date: 2021
Type: GPRBA Case Study
Tags: Health
Results-Based Financing for GBV and WE in Mozambique: Findings From a 3-Day Webinar and Roadmap for RBF Project Design and Implementation
This report presents key findings from a 3-day webinar on results-based financing (RBF) for the prevention of and response to gender-based violence (GBV) and women’s empowerment (WE), with the objective of guiding development partners in Mozambique on how to integrate results-based approaches in…
Date: 2021
Type: GPRBA Publication
Tags: Gender
GPRBA Annual Report 2021
The Partnership broadened its mandate in 2019 to incorporate more flexible financing solutions beyond OBA, to keep up with the changing needs of our clients and to achieve greater impact. The name change to GPRBA marked this expansion. It made more RBF instruments available, and leveraged the…
Date: 2021
Type: Annual Reports
Outcome-Based Financing for Service Delivery; With Key Considerations for the Recovery From COVID-19
To improve their effectiveness in fighting poverty, development practitioners have increasingly adopted outcome-based financing (OBF) approaches. This paper explores whether and how OBF can contribute to overcoming the enduring service financing and delivery challenges, while also supporting…
Date: 2021
Type: GPRBA Working Paper
Tags: Health, Urban
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Urban Projects
This report serves as a tool to project teams working on Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects in the urban sector. It provides sector-specific entry points, key questions to consider, and sample objectives and indicators that can be used to consider how RBF can be used to close the gender gap…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Urban, Gender
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Energy Projects
This report serves as a tool to project teams working on Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects in the energy sector. It provides sector-specific entry points, key questions to consider, and sample objectives and indicators that can be used to consider how RBF can be used to close the gender gap…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Energy, Gender
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Water Projects
This report serves as a tool to project teams working on Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects in the water sector. It provides sector-specific entry points, key questions to consider, and sample objectives and indicators that can be used to consider how RBF can be used to close the gender gap…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Water and Sanitation, Gender
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Education Projects
This report serves as a tool to project teams working on Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects in the education sector. It provides sector-specific entry points, key questions to consider, and sample objectives and indicators that can be used to consider how RBF can be used to close the gender…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Education, Gender
City-level Assessment and Draft Service Improvement Plan for Solid Waste Management For Itahari Sub-Metropolitan City
By 2050, it is estimated that nearly half the world’s population will reside in cities. Bulging population in cities coupled with their rising income levels has led to an increase in the amount of waste generated by these urban centers. Cities and towns across the globe today face acute…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Publication
Tags: Solid Waste Management
RBF Through Social Enterprises: A White Paper in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a global humanitarian crisis, putting both lives and livelihoods at risk. In the initial stages of the pandemic – especially in contexts where the state machinery was caught unawares or lacked capacity, or both, social enterprises (SEs) or socially-driven…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Publication
Tags: Energy, Education, Health, Solid Waste Management, Water and Sanitation, Fragile Situations, Urban
Lighting the Way for Growth in Rural Myanmar
This publication by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), GPRBA's partner in the Myanmar Solar Power project, describes its role in the World Bank-funded National Electrification project to provide universal access to the country's rural populations by 2030.
Since the…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Energy, Climate Change
Bangladesh OBA Sanitation Microfinance Program
This case study is part of a series prepared by the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA). The objective is to highlight project components that have enabled GPRBA to successfully deploy Results-Based Finance (RBF) approaches for the provision of basic services to…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Case Study
Tags: Water and Sanitation, Gender
An Introduction to Outcome-Based Financing
The US$2.5 trillion annual financing gap for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals necessitates that existing resources are used more effectively and that additional resources are mobilized. Innovative funding approaches such as results-based financing (RBF) can contribute…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Gender-Based Violence
GBV is a global pandemic and a major public health problem. Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is the most prevalent form of GBV. Globally, it is estimated that about 1 in 3 women who have ever been in a relationship report that they have experienced some form of violence (e.g. a…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Gender
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Climate Change Projects
This report serves as a tool to project teams working on Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects with a focus on combating climate change and its impact. It provides sector-specific entry points, key questions to consider, and sample objectives and indicators that can be used to consider how RBF…
Date: 2020
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Climate Change, Gender
