Lessons from West Bank Solid Waste Management
In the West Bank and Gaza, decades of conflict have led to underinvestment in solid-waste management. Hebron and Bethlehem, the poorest governorates in the West Bank and home to nearly one million people, generated 20 percent of the area’s total solid waste. In 2009, About 500 tons of waste…
Date: 2019
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Solid Waste Management, Public-Private Partnerships , Fragile Situations
Improving Electricity Access for Low-Income Households in Zambia
In 2015, the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) approved a US$4.95 million grant to increase access to grid-based electricity services for 22,000 low-income households and 5,000 micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in urban and peri-urban areas through use of targeted subsidies, with…
Date: 2018
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Energy
Expanding Electricity to Low-Income Customers in Liberia
In 2011, GPOBA provided a grant to the local power utility, Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC), to ensure broad-based and inclusive access to electricity and significantly improve living conditions among the poor in low-income households in Monrovia. This project was part of a larger…
Date: 2018
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Energy
Lessons Learned: Output-Based Aid for Municipal Solid Waste Management in Nepal
The project was implemented in five municipalities -- Dhankuta, Ghorahi, Lalitpur, Pokhara, and Tansen -- which met certain operating and maintenance requirements. The project aimed to build upon the municipalities’ existing systems and make them more sustainable, rather than developing new…
Date: 2018
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Solid Waste Management, Fragile Situations, Urban
Uganda Grid-Based Output-Based Aid Project
The OBA facility supported provision of over 105,000 grid connections for poor households (525,000 residents) in urban, peri-urban, and rural areas, representing about 10 percent of new connections country-wide from 2013–2016.
The GPOBA grant, which was fully utilized four months before…
Date: 2017
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Energy
Decentralized Electricity for Universal Access in Bolivia
The GPOBA project, which was approved in 2007, built on the experience of the Infrastructure for Rural Transformation (IDTR) project. It was comprised of grants totaling $5.2 million to support the provision of electricity under the framework of the Government’s universal access strategy. The…
Date: 2017
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Energy
Improving Rural Energy Access through Solar Home Systems in Ghana
In Ghana, where electricity grid access is relatively high for Sub-Saharan Africa, millions of people in small rural communities or on isolated islands cannot be reached through grid extension. A successful GPOBA project supported the purchase of solar home systems and PV lanterns for 16,500…
Date: 2016
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Energy
Upper Secondary Education Enhancement Project in Vietnam
The Vietnamese government has made remarkable gains in improving education outcomes since the early 1990s. But disparities in educational attainment – particularly between income groups – remain. GPOBA’s first project in the education sector addressed persistent inequalities in learning outcomes…
Date: 2016
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Education
Bangladesh Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development – SHS Project
In 2010, a Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) grant for $13.95 million was approved to improve electricity access for poor households in rural Bangladesh in remote, off-grid areas through the provision of SHSs. This project was part of a larger SHS program using the OBA approach that…
Date: 2015
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Energy
Ethiopia: Electricity Access Rural Expansion Project
In 2008, a GPOBA grant of $8 million was signed to accelerate the pace of connections among grid customers by making the connection charge affordable to the poor population through a credit scheme, and was linked to the $170 million IDA-financed Ethiopia Electricity Access Rural Expansion…
Date: 2015
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Energy
Vietnam Rural Water
In 2008, GPOBA approved a $3 million grant to support investments in piped rural water supply systems, in conjunction with the government's efforts to operationalize its national Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Strategy.
The project provided access to affordable, clean water supply to…
Date: 2015
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Biogas Support Program in Nepal
In 2006, the government of Nepal requested support from the World Bank and GPOBA to promote biogas plants in rural areas and enhance the sustainability of the energy sector. A GPOBA grant was approved with the objective of increasing the number of households sustainably using biogas plants under…
Date: 2015
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Energy, Fragile Situations
Challenges in Formalizing the Supply of Electricity in Mumbai’s Slums
In 2009, the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) approved a pilot project for $1.6 million with the objective of increasing access to safe electricity supply in Indian slums through targeted output-based subsides. The pilot focused on selected urban slum areas of Mumbai, but had…Date: 2014
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Energy
Kenya Microfinance for Community-Managed Water Project
In 2006, the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) approved an innovative pilot project for $1.15 million to increase access and improve efficiency in water services for the poor in rural and peri-urban areas of central Kenya through investments in selected community subprojects. By…
Date: 2014
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Morocco Improved Access to Water and Sanitation Services Output-based Aid Project
Despite Morocco's having a generally good infrastructure for the delivery of water and sanitation, over 1 million residents in the fast-growing outskirts of cities lack adequate services, posing a significant…
Date: 2014
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Water and Sanitation
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
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
