Outcome-Based Financing for Service Delivery: with key considerations for the recovery from COVID-19
To improve their effectiveness in fighting poverty, development practitioners have increasingly adopted outcome-based financing (OBF) approaches. This paper explores whether and how OBF can contribute to overcoming the enduring service financing and delivery challenges, while also supporting…
Date: 2021
Type: Publications
Tags: Health, Other, Urban
Output-Based Aid Sanitation Facility for Greater Accra in Ghana
This case study is part of a series to highlight project components that have enabled GPRBA to successfully deploy results-based finance (RBF) approaches for the provision of basic services to low-income communities,with efficiency, transparency and accountability. This analysis is focused on…
Date: 2021
Type: Publications
Tags: Water and Sanitation
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Urban Projects
This report serves as a tool to project teams working on Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects in the urban sector. It provides sector-specific entry points, key questions to consider, and sample objectives and indicators that can be used to consider how RBF can be used to close the gender gap…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Tags: Urban, Gender
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Energy Projects
This report serves as a tool to project teams working on Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects in the energy sector. It provides sector-specific entry points, key questions to consider, and sample objectives and indicators that can be used to consider how RBF can be used to close the gender gap…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Tags: Energy, Gender
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Water Projects
This report serves as a tool to project teams working on Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects in the water sector. It provides sector-specific entry points, key questions to consider, and sample objectives and indicators that can be used to consider how RBF can be used to close the gender gap…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Tags: Water and Sanitation, Gender
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Education Projects
This report serves as a tool to project teams working on Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects in the education sector. It provides sector-specific entry points, key questions to consider, and sample objectives and indicators that can be used to consider how RBF can be used to close the gender…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Tags: Education, Gender
Lighting the Way for Growth in Rural Myanmar
This publication by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), GPRBA's partner in the Myanmar Solar Power project, describes its role in the World Bank-funded National Electrification project to provide universal access to the country's rural populations by 2030.
Since the…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Tags: Energy, Climate Change
GPRBA Annual Report 2020
In addition to showcasing the wide range of activities achieved during fiscal year 2020, this Annual Report sheds light on some of the many ways GPRBA continues to employ innovative results-based financing instruments to strengthen service delivery, incentivize long-term and sustainable change,…
Date: 2020
Type: Annual Reports
An Introduction to Outcome-Based Financing
The US$2.5 trillion annual financing gap for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals necessitates that existing resources are used more effectively and that additional resources are mobilized. Innovative funding approaches such as results-based financing (RBF) can contribute…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Gender-Based Violence
GBV is a global pandemic and a major public health problem. Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is the most prevalent form of GBV. Globally, it is estimated that about 1 in 3 women who have ever been in a relationship report that they have experienced some form of violence (e.g. a…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Tags: Gender
City-level Assessment and Draft Service Improvement Plan for Solid Waste Management For Itahari Sub-Metropolitan City
By 2050, it is estimated that nearly half the world’s population will reside in cities. Bulging population in cities coupled with their rising income levels has led to an increase in the amount of waste generated by these urban centers. Cities and towns across the globe today face acute…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Securing Land and Property Rights: Exploring the Scope for Results-Based Financing Approaches
While results-based approaches have been designed and successfully applied to several infrastructure and social sectors, there is almost no record of its being used regarding projects in the land sector. This report looks into the question of how RBF can be a useful tool in helping secure tenure…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Tags: Other, Fragile Situations, Gender, Urban
Public-Private Partnerships in Land Administration: Analytical and Operational Frameworks
This report "Public-Private Partnerships in Land Administration: Analytical and Operational Frameworks" comes one year after GPRBA's signing of the West Bank and Gaza Real Estate Registration program, its first project in land administration.
GPRBA co-authored and co-sponsored this…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Tags: Other, Urban
How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing in Climate Change Projects
This report serves as a tool to project teams working on Results-Based Financing (RBF) projects with a focus on combating climate change and its impact. It provides sector-specific entry points, key questions to consider, and sample objectives and indicators that can be used to consider how RBF…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Tags: Climate Change, Gender
Solomon Islands Energy Access Program
This case study is part of a series prepared by the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA). The objective is to highlight project components that have enabled GPRBA to successfully deploy Results-Based Finance (RBF) approaches for the provision of basic services to…
Date: 2020
Type: Publications
Tags: Energy, Climate Change, Fragile Situations
RBF Through Social Enterprises: A White Paper in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a global humanitarian crisis, putting both lives and livelihoods at risk. In the initial stages of the pandemic – especially in contexts where the state machinery was caught unawares or lacked capacity, or both, social enterprises (SEs) or socially-driven…
Date: 2020
Type: Other Publications
Tags: Energy, Education, Health, Solid Waste Management, Water and Sanitation, Fragile Situations, Urban
Bangladesh OBA Sanitation Microfinance Program
This case study is part of a series prepared by the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA). The objective is to highlight project components that have enabled GPRBA to successfully deploy Results-Based Finance (RBF) approaches for the provision of basic services to…
Date: 2020
Type: Publications
Tags: Water and Sanitation, Gender
Lessons from West Bank Solid Waste Management
In the West Bank and Gaza, decades of conflict had led to underinvestment in solid-waste management. Hebron and Bethlehem, the poorest governorates in the West Bank and home to nearly one million people, generated 20 percent of the area’s total solid waste. In 2009, 500 tons of waste produced…
Date: 2019
Type: Lessons Learned
Tags: Solid Waste Management, Public-Private Partnerships , Fragile Situations
Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches Brand Guidelines
This document provides guidelines on how to use the GPRBA logo, brand and visual identity which are valuable corporate assets that must be used consistently in the proper forms. We created this guide to make it easy for our partners and key stakeholders to apply our new look. We appreciate your…
Date: 2019
Type: Other Publications
Are They Really Being Served? Assessing Effective Infrastructure Access and Quality in 15 Kenyan Cities
"This paper proposes a framework that examines three levels of access to infrastructure -- nominal, effective, and quality-adjusted access. Most conventional indicators measure nominal access --whether a household has physical access to a service in or near the house. By contrast, effective…
Date: 2019
Type: Other Publications
