Resources
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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
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Extending Access to Clean Energy for Low-Income Households in Rural Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, a blended finance approach has been used to extend access to off-grid electricity for rural low-income households. An output-based aid (OBA) grant in combination with microcredit from local partner organizations (POs)—mostly nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) with experience in…
Date: 2018
Tags: Energy
Region: South Asia
Country: Bangladesh
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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
Tags: Solid Waste Management, Fragile Situations, Urban
Region: South Asia
Country: Nepal
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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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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
Tags: Urban
Region: Global
Country: Global
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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
Tags: Land Administration
Region: Global
Country: Global