"Bangladesh has one of the world’s largest domestic solar power programs, covering 14 percent of the population. This achievement was made possible through a longstanding partnership wherein the government and the World Bank worked together to expand access to clean and renewable energy, especially in rural and remote areas." GPOBA partnered with the World Bank/IDA and IDCOL to make solar irrigation and solar home systems more affordable.

GPOBA has collaborated with the World Bank/IDA to help meet Bangladesh’s increased demand for electricity. "To preserve the environment and power up isolated off-the-grid areas, the country has invested heavily in green energy through solar home systems, solar irrigation pumps, and solar mini-grids. Now, rural Bangladeshis can access round-the-clock cheap energy to run their businesses and lighten up their homes."

Dr. Bertha Darteh of Ghana's MInistry of Local Government and Rural Development describes how output-based aid (OBA) provided incentives for private sector providers to bid on sanitation contracts.

Beneficiaries of this GPOBA water and sanitation project in Honduras briefly describe how they enjoy better health, save time, income and cleanliness stemming from this program.

In Nairobi, Kenya, roughly 2 million people live in informal settlements, many below the poverty line.  A key factor that has kept this population in poverty is a lack of electricity.
 

In Honduras, millions of people lack access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation services. Current public and private investment is not enough to provide the poor with access to these basic services. Through an innovative, results-based financing mechanism called output-based aid, the World Bank, the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) and the Government of Honduras connected 87,000 low-income residents to water and sanitation services.

GPOBA is working with the World Bank to help connect low-income households to the electrical grid. Vanuatu's rural population still has very limited access to electricity, affecting even moreso low-income families. The World Bank worked with the Government of Vanuatu and power providers to connect more than 4,000 of the poorest families to electricity, helping the country reach its target of 90% access by 2020.