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GPOBA Inn-OBA-tions Awards Presented at 10th Anniversary Conference
GPOBA announced ten award-winning pilot projects at the conclusion of GPOBA’s 10th Anniversary two-day conference. GPOBA's Panel of Experts served as the committee to select the ten projects that best exemplified successful and innovative implementation of output-based aid, with potential replication and scaling up, as well as adding to the diversity of the portfolio.
Bangladesh: Solar Home Systems Reach 2 Million Households
Image: Still from World Bank Video "Women Empowered by Solar Energy in Bangladesh" In May 2010, GPOBA signed a Grant Agreement for $7.2 million of DFID funding to assist lower income rural households in Bangladesh gain access to this more affordable supply of electricity.Output-Based Aid for Urban Transport
Photo: Dominic Chavez/World Bank
A Year in Review: FY2017
GPOBA signed two grant agreements in FY2017, for a sanitation project in Bangladesh and an energy project in the Solomon Islands.In Bangladesh, poor sanitation and open defecation practices -- along with its being one of the most densely populated countries in the world -- have placed it among the 15 countries with the most deaths due to diarrhea or pneumonia in 2013 (UNICEF 2
Using OBA/RBF to improve gender equality
“There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.” - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women