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Output-Based Aid in Morocco (Part 2): Expanding Water Supply Service in Rural Areas
Since the mid-1990s, Morocco has made big strides in developing access to potable water in rural areas. The National Water Supply Company, ONEP, has developed an important network of standpipes in rural communities and over 87 percent of the rural population has access to a source of drinking water.
Output-Based Aid in the Philippines: Improved Access to Water Services for Poor Households in Metro Manila
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This project aims to provide access to water services through individual household connections to several low-income communities in Rizal province (Antipolo City, Baras, Rodriguez, and San Mateo) and Taguig City in the Manila Metropolitan Region through a collaboration with the concessionaire for Manila’s east zone, the Manila Water Company (MWC).
Output-Based Aid in Ethiopia: Dealing with the “Last Mile” Paradox in Rural Electrification
Providing electricity to poor households in rural areas in Ethiopia is critical to improving the health and living conditions of the population, reducing poverty, and stimulating growth. A project supported by the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) is accelerating the pace of connections in electrified areas and fostering energy efficiency.
L’Aide Basée sur les Résultats au Maroc (Partie 2) : Extension des services d'approvisionnement en eau en zones rurales
Depuis le milieu des années 1990, le Maroc a réalisé des progrès importants dans le développement de l'accès à l'eau potable en zone rurale.
L’Office National de l’Eau Potable, l'ONEP, a développé un important réseau d’adduction d’eau par bornes-fontaines dans les communautés rurales, donnant l’accès à l’eau potable à plus de 87 pour cent de la population rurale.
Leveraging Private Sector Finance for Rural Piped Water Infrastructure in Kenya: The Use of Output-Based Aid
An innovative approach to rural infrastructure finance in Kenya is facilitating access to finance for community-based water providers by blending output-based subsidies and commercial finance.
Output-Based Aid in Honduras: An OBA Facility for the Water and Sanitation Sector
Honduras has achieved a reasonable level of access to water supply and sanitation, but gaps in coverage remain, especially in rural and peri-urban areas, and service quality for those with access is often poor.
Output-based Aid: Supporting Infrastructure Delivery Through Explicit and Performance-based Subsidies
Increasing access to basic infrastructure and social services is critical to reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. However, this is a challenge because of the gap between what it costs to deliver a desired level of service and what can be funded through user charges.
GPOBA Annual Report 2009
GPOBA’s Annual Report 2009 states that output-based aid (OBA) can help improve delivery of basic infrastructure and social services to the poor, and is an approach that is “maturing” and proving to have a meaningful role both in the World Bank Group (WBG) and the wider development community. GPOBA, a global partnership program administered by the World Bank, broadeneConnecting Colombia’s Poor to Natural Gas Services: Lessons Learned from a Completed Output-Based Aid Project
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The Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) has recently completed a project that made 35,000 new natural gas connections to poor households in Colombia’s Caribbean coastal region.
Output-Based Aid in Education: A Solution for Quality Education
A number of approaches have been tried to improve school attendance and educational attainment, including the use of Output-Based Aid (OBA).
The challenge of introducing OBA in education has often been finding an appropriate definition of “output” that balances achievement of results with reasonable transfer of performance risk.