This issue of Results Matters presents highlights of GPRBA’s investment projects, technical assistance activities, new publications, events as well as GPRBA in the media during the past fiscal year 2022 (FY22).
In December 2021, Kenya's Water Fund was presented with the prestigious United Nations Public Service Award (UNPSA) for its output-based aid program funded through a GPRBA grant and financing from local commercial banks. Competing against 400 nominations from 67 countries, Water Fund won its second UNPSA, this time under the category of “Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Institutions to Reach the SDGs;" the previous UNPSA was bestowed to the Water Fund in 2019 for its Up-scaling Basic Sanitation for the Urban Poor.
This video gives an overview of GPRBA's project to deliver water and sanitation to low-income areas and includes perspectives from officials, implementers, property owners and end users.
WaterFund CEO Ismail Shaiye thanked GPRBA for contributing to the OBA project's success in reaching targeted low-income communities in Kenya.
RBF Investment Projects
In FY22, GPRBA supported nine RBF investment projects on Education, Energy, Solid Waste Management, Water and others in seven countries and one territory.
GPRBA had six active total technical assistance activities in FY22 (three of which were approved during the fiscal year) focusing on housing, solid waste management and informal settlements.
Phoram Shah, Urban Specialist at the World Bank, explains how GPRBA supported this much-needed public service in one of the most challenging political and geographical environments.
This production by the World Bank Ghana office illustrates how schoolchildren in Ghana have adapted to learning, at times virtually, during the COVID-19 pandemic. GPRBA is providing additional funding to the ongoing IDA program Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes, now renamed the Ghana Education Outcomes Fund. This additional financing will help reduce the current financing gap in the project's implementation to support the Government’s COVID-19 Coordinated Education Response Plan and respond to the high number of out-of-school children. The project is on schedule to begin RBF-funded activities in the second quarter of FY23.
This Annual Report highlighted GPRBA's activities in subsidizing projects, technical assistance and knowledge/learning activities during FY21. This report also featured GPRBA's cumulative portfolio since its establishment in 2003, with 58 subsidy projects in 32 countries (and one territory), and more than 11 million verified beneficiaries.
A bibliography of 227 articles on RBF last updated April 2022 is now available on the GPRBA website. If you have resources you think we should add to the database, please send us an email to rbfinfo@gprba.org.
This analysis outlines how output-based aid helped improve access to high-quality and financially sustainable SWM services in five selected municipalities in Nepal from 2013-2017.
GPRBA co-organized a virtual three-day event exploring the use of RBF approaches for women's empowerment and the prevention of to gender-based violence in Mozambique. This summary includes key findings resulting from this workshop, held in English and Portuguese.
RBF Events
GPRBA participated in several RBF knowledge exchange events during FY22; find more details and recordings of some sessions below:
GPRBA’s Program Manager moderated the regional spotlight session on "Fireside Chat: Driving an Outcomes-Focused Development Agenda in India," (@ 24:35)co-hosted by GoLab and the British-Asian Trust at the Social Outcomes Conference (Download Presentation)
Revisiting OBF and Climate Change, COVID-19 Recovery Efforts
This paper explores whether and how OBF can contribute to overcoming the service financing and delivery challenges during the pandemic, while also supporting resilience in the context of COVID-19 recovery efforts.
This White Paper is a guide for development experts who engage in RBF, and focuses on two goals: reducing the spread of COVID-19 and minimizing the pandemic's socioeconomic impact by engaging social enterprises to use RBF.
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