Resources
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Output-based Aid in Colombia: Connecting Poor Households to Natural Gas Service
Natural gas connections could bring substantial benefits to poor households in Colombia. Compared with other fuels typically used for cooking, natural gas is safer, less expensive, and less environmentally damaging. But even though gas is more affordable, connection fees can put the cost of…
Date: 2007
Tags: Energy
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Country: Colombia
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Output-based Aid in Colombia: Connecting Poor Households to Natural Gas Service
Natural gas connections could bring substantial benefits to poor households in Colombia. Compared with other fuels typically used for cooking, natural gas is safer, less expensive, and less environmentally damaging. But even though gas is more affordable, connection fees can put the cost of…
Date: 2007
Tags: Energy
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Country: Colombia
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Targeting Subsidies Through Output-Based Aid
Output-based aid (OBA), or performance-based grants, can be used to help target services to the poor. Under OBA schemes, service providers are compensated only after delivery of a specified output, such as water connections, to a targeted beneficiary. In most cases that targeted beneficiary…
Date: 2008
Tags: Other
Region: Global
Country: Global
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Output-Based Aid in India: Community Water Project in Andhra Pradesh
Providing safe drinking water to poor families in the coastal area of Andhra Pradesh is critical for the economic development of the region as well as to improve health and living conditions. A community water project supported by GPOBA is increasing innovation and efficiency in the sector through…
Date: 2008
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Region: South Asia
Country: India
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Output-Based Disbursements in Mexico: Transforming the Water Sector in Guanajuato
A project in the Mexican state of Guanajuato shows how tying disbursements to specific outputs can provide incentives for effective implementation of a water sector strategy. The disbursements, from pooled government and World Bank loan funds, are made against connections to safe and reliable…
Date: 2008
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Country: Mexico
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Output-Based Disbursements in Mexico: Transforming the Water Sector in Guanajuato
A project in the Mexican state of Guanajuato shows how tying disbursements to specific outputs can provide incentives for effective implementation of a water sector strategy. The disbursements, from pooled government and World Bank loan funds, are made against connections to safe and reliable…
Date: 2008
Tags: Water and Sanitation
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Country: Mexico
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Output-Based Aid in Telecommunications: New Models for Universal Access in Latin America
During the 1990s many Latin American countries developed universal access programs, financed through universal service funds, to increase telecommunications access in rural and low-income areas. The mechanism most often used to allocate the funds was the minimum subsidy tender, with subsidy…
Date: 2009
Tags: Telecommunications
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Country: Global
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Output-Based Aid in Telecommunications: New Models for Universal Access in Latin America
During the 1990s many Latin American countries developed universal access programs, financed through universal service funds, to increase telecommunications access in rural and low-income areas. The mechanism most often used to allocate the funds was the minimum subsidy tender, with subsidy…
Date: 2009
Tags: Telecommunications
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Country: Global
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Output-Based Aid in Armenia: Connecting Poor Urban Households to Gas Service
Gas-based heating offers a clean, efficient, low-cost heating solution for poor urban households in Armenia, a country with severe winters. But many low-income households cannot afford the cost of connecting to gas networks and heating facilities or the cost of heating equipment. To help these…
Date: 2009
Tags: Energy
Region: Europe and Central Asia
Country: Armenia
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Designing OBA When There is an Incumbent
This working paper aims to provide practical guidance to Government officials and others who are asked to design Output Based Aid (OBA) projects in situations in which there is an existing supplier. The focus is on water and electricity projects where there is a request for development of an OBA…
Date: 2003
Region: Global
Country: Global