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The objectives of the activity is to explore and develop affordable housing solution models through OBA and explore applicability in one or two case studies. As planned for the final stage, an urban dashboard integrated final deliverables that analyzed access to infrastructure by renters and owners. The dashboards inform potential private sector providers of demand characteristics. Overall, the activity developed the concept for to capture and disseminate key service-access and city-management data. Data usability was tested with the Municipal Reform Cell in Bangalore. The report "Success When We Deemed It Failure? Revisiting Sites and Services in Mumbai and Chennai 20 Years Later" will also continue to be disseminated in discussion forums about basic services and the role of RBF.
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The objective of the proposed study is to evaluate the role that demand factors (e.g. affordability, access) play in OBA success and determine improved methods for incorporating relevant demand considerations into future project design.
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The activity is to support the development and dissemination of a comprehensive report focusing on Cities. This activity seeks to build knowledge on the applicability of Output- Based Aid (OBA) and Results-based Financing (RBF) schemes in urban climate change mitigation strategies. The overarching objective of this activity is to inform the dialogue on the implementation of OBA and RBF mechanisms in the emerging climate change agenda, through a holistic knowledge and operational approach to develop and dissemination a comprehensive report focusing on Cities.
Several analytical activities have been developed including a report on New Perspectives on Results-Based Blended Finance for Cities: Innovative Finance Solutions for Climate-Smart Infrastructure (2019), a note on RBF for Pro-Poor and Climate-Smart Investments in Cities (2019), a report on RBF Climate Finance in Practice: Delivering Climate Finance for Low-Carbon Development (2017), and a report RBF in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience: The Example of OBA (2017). The activity developed an e-learning course based on these reports and further disseminated these knowledge products through webinars and face-to-face workshops. Also, an online collaborative platform was established to share knowledge on an ongoing basis.
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"The Application of Results-Based Financing for Urban Transport” webinar focus on urban transport systems, which are crucial for connecting poor populations to jobs, education and health services. As the developing world rapidly urbanizes, there is an opportunity to build safer, cleaner and more inclusive transport systems.
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Social Impact Bonds: Addressing Gaps to Solving Social Issues”, the first webinar in the series, will explore the financial instrument as a potential model that addresses weaknesses of traditional approaches in solving social issues, and some examples from implementation. As a RBF instrument, impact bonds tie financial returns and payments to social outcomes. Their design brings private sector investment to programs that are not profit-centered but produce social benefits.
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Achieving transformational change in climate change mitigation and adaptation requires a combination of enhanced international cooperation and trillions of “climate-smart” private investments, which in many cases will need to be channeled through blended public and multilateral financing schemes. Understanding how best to mobilize, leverage and scale up climate smart investments requires new forms of financing in order to efficiently use limited public and multilateral funds.
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This module, part of a Coursera course on "Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies". Inga Afanasieva, Infrastructure Specialist, at the World Bank, introduces the role that results-based financing approaches can play in meeting growing infrastructure and service challenges in the provision of urban sanitation.
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GPOBA celebrates its 15-year anniversary of providing innovative financing solutions that link funding to the achievement of verified results. GPOBA support provides access to basic services such as household connections to water supply and sanitation, electricity grid, health services, and improving solid waste management services for low-income communities that might otherwise go unserved.
Over the past 15 years, GPOBA has reached over 9 million beneficiaries through a portfolio of 48 subsidy projects in 28 countries. GPOBA projects have helped leverage additional financing for projects through commercial financing such as PPPs, commercial lending, or community equity to make pro-poor investments viable.
In addition, GPOBA has supported numerous technical assistance and knowledge building activities to disseminate the lessons and experiences learned from the design and implementation of OBA/RBF approaches across various sectors and regions.
Through this experience from the last 15 years, GPOBA has evolved into a Center of Expertise on output-based aid (OBA) and results-based financing (RBF) serving as a valuable resource for developing countries. And in the years to come, we will work by enhancing and scaling up our activities to provide a range of RBF instruments, fostering collaborations, and exploring new frontiers for extending our reach to achieve greater impacts.
We invite you to check out the videos below to hear the voices from the field on how GPOBA has improved their lives.
Check back periodically as we will be updating this page with more voices on GPOBA.
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Honduras OBA Water and Sanitation Facility: Housed within the Honduran Social Investment Fund, this US$4.5 million “OBA Facility”—the first such facility funded by GPOBA—aimed to improve access to water and sanitation services for about 15,000 low-income households, and to increase efficiency and transparency in sector investment funding. By the end of the project, 87,600 low-income residents had obtained access to water and sanitation services.
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Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation Project: At World Water Week 2016, Dr. Bertha Darteh explains how output-based aid provided incentives to service providers in Ghana's sanitation sector.