Les spécialistes du développement sont très conscients de la nécessité de trouver des moyens plus efficaces d’améliorer les conditions de vie de base des pauvres, les approches habituellement suivies pour apporter une aide publique n’ayant pas toujours donné les résultats escomptés.

En vista de que los mecanismos tradicionales de subsidio público no siempre han tenido los resultados previstos, los expertos en desarrollo están muy conscientes de la necesidad de encontrar formas más eficaces de mejorar las condiciones de vida de los pobres.

Development practitioners are acutely aware of the need to find more effective ways to improve basic living conditions for the poor, as traditional approaches of delivering public support have not always led to the intended results. This books reviews the experience with output-based aid, a results-based instrument that is being used to deliver basic infrastructure and social services to the poor, often through public-private partnerships.

Output-Based Aid (OBA) ties the disbursement of public funding to the achievement of clearly specified results that directly support improved access to basic services. OBA has emerged as an important way to finance access to basic services, but experience with OBA approaches in the sanitation sector has remained limited and there have been mixed results. Evidence from existing projects suggests that OBA could improve the targeting and efficiency of subsidy delivery, and help to develop and strengthen sanitation providers.

Output-Based Aid (OBA) has been used since the early 2000s to deliver basic infrastructure and social services to the poor, typically through public-private partnerships.

Given the limited experience with OBA in the water and sanitation sector, GPOBA has made a concerted effort to test OBA approaches in the sector. A growing number of regional and local private providers have emerged, and some projects involve public providers.

GPOBA’s Annual Report 2010 reports that wider adoption of results-based financing instruments, such as output-based aid (OBA), is now in sight, thanks to a number of positive developments: 

The purpose of this working paper is to outline some of the key issues related to Access to Finance (A2F) in Output-Based Aid (OBA). OBA is a results-based financing approach which aims to improve delivery of basic infrastructure and social services to the poor through targeted public funding. 

L’aide basée sur les résultats (OBA) est utilisée depuis le début des années 2000 pour fournir des services sociaux et des infrastructures de base aux pauvres, généralement par le biais de partenariats public-privé.

La formule ayant été peu appliquée jusqu’ici aux services d’approvisionnement en eau et d’assainissement, le Partenariat mondial pour l’aide basée sur les résultats (GPOBA) déploie des efforts concertés pour l’employer à titre expérimental dans ce secteur.