Results-Based Financing for Municipal Solid Waste
Municipal solid waste management (MSW) is a crucial service provided by cities around the world, but is often inefficient and underperforming in developing countries. Low-income countries face the most acute challenges with solid waste management, with cities collecting less than half the waste…
Date: 2014
Type: World Bank Publication
Tags: Solid Waste Management
Applying Results-Based Financing in Water Investments
A Guide to Results-Based Financing in Water Investments
Given the broad array of issues and the complexity faced by the water sector as a whole (from irrigation to flood protection, to water conservation and hydropower), there is a great demand for future exploring the potential of…
Date: 2014
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Water and Sanitation
From the Bottom Up: How Small Power Producers and Mini-Grids Can Deliver Electrification and Renewable Energy in Africa
GPOBA co-financed with the Africa Renewable Energy and Access Program (AFREA) and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) the development of From the Bottom Up: How Small Power Producers and Mini-Grids Can Deliver Electrification and Renewable Energy in Africa,"under the Africa…Date: 2014
Type: World Bank Publication
Tags: Energy
GPOBA Annual Report 2014
This has been a year of significant growth for the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA), exploring new horizons in output-based aid (OBA), celebrating important milestones, and building on experience. Most importantly, GPOBA continued to improve access to basic services for an…
Date: 2014
Type: Annual Reports
Tags: Energy, Climate Change, Education, Health, Solid Waste Management, Water and Sanitation, Independent Verification , Fragile Situations
The Use of Output-Based Aid in Small Scale Irrigation Schemes in Developing Countries
This report has been completed to explore the use of output-based aid (OBA) as a financing mechanism to support the development and operation of small-scale irrigation schemes in developing countries. The specific objectives of the report were to:
Date: 2014
Type: GPRBA Working Paper
Tags: Climate Change
Senegal On-site Sanitation Project
An output-based aid (OBA) on-site sanitation project in Senegal helped over 100,000 people access sanitation facilities in peri-urban areas of Dakar, improving the urban environment, community health, and the well-being of women and children. The project shows that well-targeted subsidies can…
Date: 2013
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Water and Sanitation
A Decade of Supporting the Delivery of Basic Services for the Poor
This publication served as a guide to GPOBA's 10th Anniversary Conference participants, providing them with a brief but complete overview of GPOBA's activities, There are pages with more detailed information for each of the top three sectors (water, energy, health) and one for the remaining…
Date: 2013
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Energy, Education, Health, Solid Waste Management, Water and Sanitation
GPOBA 10th Anniversary Conference
This booklet includes the two-day conference agenda and presenters' bios.
Date: 2013
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Other
Public-Private Partnership Stories: "West Bank & Gaza -- Solid Waste Management"
This two-paged fact sheet from the IFC's Private Advisory Services includes information on the project's background, the World Bank's role (including that of GPOBA), the PPP structure and bidding, and the post-tender results. The West Bank Solid Waste Management project, signed in September 2013…
Date: 2013
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Solid Waste Management, Public-Private Partnerships
Connection Charges and Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa trails other regions in providing access to electricity for poor urban and rural residents. This poor performance can be linked to various factors, including political interference in utility policy, higher investment costs and lower profitability of extending service to rural…
Date: 2013
Type: GPRBA Working Paper
Tags: Energy
GPOBA Annual Report 2013
This year marks a milestone for GPOBA, commemorating 10 years since its founding. Over the past decade, through a diverse portfolio of 36 projects, GPOBA is fulfilling its mandate to fund, design, demonstrate, and document output-based aid (OBA) approaches to improve delivery of basic services to…Date: 2013
Type: Annual Reports
Tags: Energy, Climate Change, Education, Health, Solid Waste Management, Water and Sanitation, Independent Verification
Using Output Based Aid in Urban Projects
OBApproaches 44Against the backdrop of rapidly rising urbanization in the developing world and the growing demand for basic services such as water and power, there is an increasing need to improve service delivery, particularly in low-income urban settlements. Output-based aid (OBA) …
Date: 2012
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Energy, Water and Sanitation, Urban
Independent Verification in Results-Based Financing
OBApproaches 43
With pressure for greater accountability and value for money in public budgets, widening the use of results-based financing (RBF) and setting up adequate independent mechanisms to verify results is becoming increasingly important. In January 2012, the World Bank launched…
Date: 2012
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Independent Verification
Output-Based Aid in Bangladesh: Solar Home Systems for Rural Households
A renewable energy program in Bangladesh that brings solar power to rural households is one of the most successful solar home system (SHS) programs in the world. It has demonstrated an inexpensive and reliable way to bring electricity to rural households. Several OBA features have contributed to…
Date: 2012
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Energy, Climate Change
Lessons From Output-Based Aid For Leveraging Finance For Clean Energy
This working paper has been prepared as backgound documentation to support a number of efforts being undertaken by the World Bank and other multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors in middle- and low-income countries linking support to clean energy with the need to make such supports more effective…
Date: 2012
Type: GPRBA Working Paper
Tags: Energy, Climate Change
Improved Community Water in Andhra Pradesh
For years, in the rural coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh, there were no alternatives to the highly contaminated tap water from government-owned piped water systems, which were poorly operated and maintained.
In May 2007, the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) launched an…
Date: 2012
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Uganda Reproductive Health Vouchers Scheme
According to a 2003 study, about 435 women die per 100,000 live births in Uganda because of lack of access to health service facilities and professional health care. The loss of a mother can shatter a family and threaten the well-being of surviving children.
In September 2008, the Global…
Date: 2012
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Health
Providing Safe Delivery Services With Vouchers: The Reproductive Healthcare Voucher Project in Western and Southern Uganda
Healthcare-and specifically maternal healthcare-is undoubtedly vital to the alleviation of poverty. The development community paid significant attention to healthcare by devoting three of its eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to healthcare with two of the three MDG healthcare goals…
Date: 2012
Type: World Bank Publication
Tags: Health
Providing Safe Delivery Services With Vouchers: The Reproductive Healthcare Voucher Project in Western and Southern Uganda
GPOBA presented key lessons learned in the Reproductive Healthcare Voucher Project (RHVP) in Uganda through the International Finance Corporation (IFC) SmartLessons, a World Bank Group awards program which enables development practitioners to share lessons in development operations. The paper …
Date: 2012
Type: World Bank Publication
Tags: Health, Gender
GPOBA Annual Report 2012
The report, spanning the fiscal year of 2012 (July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012), reviews progress towards achieving the Program’s goals of designing and implementing OBA pilot projects, building a Center of Expertise, piloting other results-based approaches, and communicating with the development…
Date: 2012
Type: Annual Reports
Tags: Energy, Climate Change, Education, Health, Solid Waste Management, Independent Verification , Water and Sanitation
