Resources
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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
Tags: Climate Change
Region: Global
Country: Global
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A Guide for Effective Results-Based Financing Strategies
GPOBA was initially founded to implement output-based aid, targeting low-income households and communities. While OBA has proven to be a successful type of development financing over its 15 years of operation, GPOBA has discovered that more complex and changing environments require more…
Date: 2018
Region: Global
Country: Global
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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
Region: Global
Country: Global
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Bangladesh: Sanitation Microfinance for Rural Households
The World Bank Group—along with international and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)—is a longtime partner of the Bangladesh government in improving access to sanitation. Strong progress has been achieved, and the Bank Group continues to support the government’s initiatives, particularly…
Date: 2018
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Region: South Asia
Country: Bangladesh
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Kenya: Using Private Financing to Improve Water Services
This note describes efforts by the government of Kenya, the World Bank and other development partners to improve access to commercial finance for water and sanitation projects, within the context of sector reforms and innovative financing initiatives.
Date: 2018
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Region: Africa
Country: Kenya
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Expanding Hygienic Sanitation in Rural Bangladesh with Microfinance
Output-based aid (OBA) is helping low-income households in rural Bangladesh access microloans to invest in hygienic sanitation facilities. The OBA grant subsidizes the cost of the facilities, reducing the overall cost for cash-constrained households, and the microloans help them to spread…
Date: 2018
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Region: South Asia
Country: Bangladesh
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Building the Market for Urban Sanitation in Ghana
In Ghana, output-based aid (OBA) was used to improve affordability for households in crowded low-income areas of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) to invest in improved household toilets. OBA was provided as a subsidy to reduce the upfront cost for toilets and stimulate demand, which in…
Date: 2018
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Region: Africa
Country: Ghana
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Expanding Electrification to Low-income Households in Rural Ghana with Microfinance
In Ghana, blended finance helped improve affordability for rural Ghanaian household investments in off-grid renewable energy technologies. Local banks extended credit blended with concessional finance from the World Bank to rural low-income households for acquisition, installation and…
Date: 2018
Tags: Energy
Region: Africa
Country: Ghana
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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
Tags: Energy
Region: Africa
Country: Zambia
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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
Tags: Energy
Region: Africa
Country: Liberia