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Accelerating Solar Water Pumping via Innovative Financing in Tanzania

Achieving sustainable water service delivery in rural areas of Tanzania has been a challenge for decades. In 2013, a nationwide mapping exercise found that only 55 percent of Tanzania’s 74,250 water points were functional. To support sustainable access to water in selected rural communities of…

How to Use Results-Based Financing in Urban Forced Displacement - Guidance Note

This guidance note offers comprehensive insights on how conceptualize and implement a Results-Based Financing instrument in fragile urban environments. 

Results-Based Financing for Better Gender Outcomes

The primary objective of this report is to enhance the understanding of Results-Based Financing (RBF) approaches strategically employed to improve gender outcomes. The report is structured around two central questions: How is RBF used globally to enhance gender outcomes? The first question…

Results-Based Financing for Solid Waste Management

The report presents an analysis of the World Bank–financed investments that use results-based financing (RBF) approaches in the solid waste management (SWM) sector. It reviews the World Bank’s investment portfolio to identify relevant projects and assess the design of their RBF approaches,…

Using Results-based Financing to Address Forced Displacement in Cities

This publication explores the transformative potential of RBF for urban forced displacement, offering a way to turn the pressures into opportunities for both displaced people and their host cities. Forced displacement is increasingly urban and protracted, presenting a developmental…

GPRBA Annual Report 2024

FY24 marks another transformative year for GPRBA. One of the significant achievements was the approval of a $4.2 million results-based financing (RBF) grant to support the Papua New Guinea National Energy Access Transformation Project (NEAT). This report provides an overview of our key…

GPRBA Annual Report 2023

FY23 was an important year for GPRBA, underscored by two significant achievements. First, a $6.6 million GPRBA grant package was approved for the Yemen Integrated Urban Services Emergency Project II (YIUSEP II). Second, GPRBA held the RBF Forum in May 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya, the first in person…

RBF Forum 2023 Full Program

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…

GPRBA Annual Report 2022

As of June 30, 2022, the GPRBA portfolio consisted of 58 grant 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…