GPOBA-supported Climate-Friendly Projects and Beneficiaries
The map below demonstrates the climate-smart energy pilots supported by GPRBA, along with the estimated number of beneficiaries.
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Date: 2018
Type: GPRBA Publication
Tags: Climate Change
An Example of a Development Impact Bond (DIB): Educate Girls, India, 2015
Despite substantial commitments to education, India still has the largest illiterate population in the world. Nationally, an estimated 3.7 million girls are out of school and in Rajasthan, 40 percent of girls drop out before reaching fifth grade. For those who remain, learning quality…
Date: 2018
Type: GPRBA Guidebook
Tags: Education
West Bank and Gaza - Cleaner Cities with PPPs and Innovative Financing Approaches
In partnership with the World Bank and IFC, The Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA) provided a grant in the amount of $8.3 million, which incentivized local governments to improve both solid
waste services and revenue administration.
Date: 2018
Type: Maximizing Finance for Development
GPOBA Annual Report 2018
The report covers highlights of this fiscal year of 2018 (July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018), in which GPOBA commemorates its 15th anniversary, along with a review of the progress towards achieving the partnership's goals of designing and implementing OBA pilot projects, building a Center of…
Date: 2018
Type: Annual Reports
Tags: Energy, Climate Change, Education, Health, Solid Waste Management, Water and Sanitation, Independent Verification
Maximizing Finance for Development for the Poor
Given the significant financing gap to meet the needs of developing countries and achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, governments, multilaterals and other development partners are increasingly looking to the private sector to help fill this gap. This means applying…
Date: 2018
Type: Maximizing Finance for Development
Tags: Public-Private Partnerships
OBA in Infrastructure: The Experience So Far
Increasing access to basic infrastructure services is critical to reducing poverty and enabling poor and marginalized people to participate in and benefit from economic development.
Too often, however, the gap between the cost of the initial service connection and a user’s ability to pay…
Date: 2017
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Energy, Water and Sanitation
Output-Based Aid for Urban Transport
Urban transport systems are crucial to economic and social development, and are particularly important for connecting poor populations to jobs, education, and health services. As the developing world rapidly urbanizes, there is an opportunity to build safer, cleaner, and more inclusive transport…
Date: 2017
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Urban Transport
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
Leveraging Performance-Based Financing and Accountability for Local Governments
A South-South Knowledge Exchange Workshop on Leveraging Performance-Based Financing and Accountability for Local Governments was held in New Delhi on 9 May 2017 and in Kolkata on 10-11 May 2017. The Workshop brought together over fifty leaders, senior government functionaries, and international and…Date: 2017
Type: GPRBA Publication
Tags: Independent Verification
Analyzing the Use of Output-Based Aid (OBA) in Urban Transport
This report discusses the applicability of output-based aid (OBA) to the urban transport sector in cities of developing and emerging countries, and draws recommendations for the design of OBA-financed projects – and, more broadly, of output-oriented pro-poor projects – that address the issues…
Date: 2017
Type: GPRBA Working Paper
Tags: Urban Transport
Results-Based Climate Finance in Practice : Delivering Climate Finance for Low-Carbon Development
Results-based financing is a well-established financing modality in the health and education sectors but it is still in an early stage of deployment in the area of climate change. This report reviews 74 results-based climate financing (RBCF) programs implemented in developing countries with an…
Date: 2017
Type: GPRBA Publication
Innovations in Finance: Indonesia
In 2010 the World Bank approved a US$220 million loan for a Local Government and Decentralization project in Indonesia. The project aims to improve the accountability and reporting of the central government’s Specific Purpose Grants (DAK). Piloted in four infrastructure sub-sectors—irrigation,…
Date: 2017
Type: GPRBA Publication
Tags: Water and Sanitation
GPOBA Annual Report 2017
GPOBA was established in 2003 to explore output-based approaches to basic service provision. It is housed within the World Bank’s Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice (GSURR). Over its 14 years in operation, GPOBA has built a diverse portfolio of 48 subsidy projects in 28…
Date: 2017
Type: Annual Reports
Tags: Energy, Climate Change, Education, Health, Solid Waste Management, Water and Sanitation, Independent Verification
Output-Based Aid for Energy Access
Globally, around 1.1 billion people live without access to electricity. Ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy by 2030 is one of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015. The Global Partnership on Output-based Aid (GPOBA) supports this energy…
Date: 2016
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Energy
Output-Based Aid at Work in Public-Private Partnerships
With development needs outstripping public sector capacity, private sector finance and expertise are becoming increasingly important. OBA and public-private partnerships (PPPs) are innovative mechanisms for leveraging private sector investment in development solutions. OBA can add value to a PPP…
Date: 2016
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Public-Private Partnerships
Getting Results: Independent Verification in Output-Based Aid
As interest grows in results-based financing (RBF), the need for reliable verification systems intensifies. Independent verification is a key component of OBA, which links the disbursement of funds to achievement of verified results. This note discusses the verification process, and presents…Date: 2016
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Independent Verification
Output-Based Aid in Education: What Have We Learned So Far?
OBA and other innovative forms of results-based financing (RBF) are still relatively new to the education sector, but emerging evidence suggests that OBA/RBF may be versatile tools for addressing issues of educational access, quality, and inequity. In 2015, GPOBA undertook a major study on the…
Date: 2016
Type: OBApproaches
Tags: Education
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
