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This infograpic illustrates key features of GPRBA's role in the West Bank & Gaza Real Estate Registration Project, the first test case in applying results-based financing in the land administration sector.
The project also marks the first time a GPRBA project explicitly includes a gender equality component to help ensure equal access for women to own land and property, as well as secure their inheritance rights; equal opportunity is also extended to low-income individuals. .
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In the West Bank and Gaza, decades of conflict have 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, About 500 tons of waste produced daily were disposed of in unsanitary dumps, illegally abandoned, or burned. Local governments lacked a sanitary landfill as well as effective revenue administration that could tap citizens’ willingness to pay for waste management.
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Access to land and real estate in the Palestinian territories remains one of the largest impediments to economic growth. In addition, women remain marginalized in terms of property ownership and land rights. This project seeks to expand access to higher quality land administration services through results-based approaches by advancing and accelerating the registration of properties in Areas A and B of the West Bank. The project seeks to increase the percentage of beneficiaries with final ownership rights registered including women and to reduce the time it takes to register property rights.
The first verification report by the IVA cleared 35,016 parcels and housing units eligible for reimbursement of $700,320. Of this amount, $430,346 will be paid from GPRBA funding that is currently going through the World Bank reimbursement process. The development of the Gender Action Plan (GAP) was delayed but the fieldwork is finally being completed; the team is working on the preparation of the final GAP, which will be incorporated into the disbursement-linked indicators.
During the last mission, which took place in March 2022, the Palestinian Land Authority and the Land and Water Settlement Commission, the implementing partners, agreed to restructure the project to address key challenges hindering satisfactory performance and to improve the results framework. The project restructuring would include (i) lowering the threshold for the disbursement linked indicator payments for parcels registration; (ii) revising the project implementation arrangements, including the composition of the Steering Committee and responsibility of project management and coordination; and (iii) revising targets and indicators, including some of the baselines.
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In partnership with the World Bank and IFC, The Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA) provided a grant in the amount of $8.3 million, which incentivized local governments to improve both solid
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Webinar organized by the World Bank's Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) on the use of results-based financing for solid waste management projects.
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On November 8, 2013, the World Bank featured the West Bank Solid Waste Management project as its front page story on its external website. This project will benefit about one-third of the population of the West Bank (approximately 800,000 people) and includes a sanitary landfill, as well as some small-scale recycling and composting. The centralization of the waste disposal and the expected increase in the quality of collection will have both environmental and health benefits, as several of the small scattered dump sites where trash was burned or left out in the open have been closed. One unique aspect of this project is a type of transition assistance, as the waste-pickers who depended on and formerly worked at these now-closed dumps have received financial support to launch their own businesses, finish college, or have been provided with an opportunity to work in the new facility.
Read more: Ending the Vicious Cycle of Open Dumps; Improving Waste Pickers' Lives
Arabic Version: وضع نهاية لمشكلة مدافن النفايات المكشوفة: تحسين حياة جامعي النفايات
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Ramallah, September 2, 2013 – The World Bank, as administrator for the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA), announced the signing of an US$8.3 million grant agreement for a project to improve access to solid waste management services in the West Bank. The World Bank will support the Palestinian Authority by providing funding for this project, which will benefit approximately 840,000 residents in the Hebron and Bethlehem governorates by allowing access to better quality and more affordable waste collection. “Unsanitary waste collection and disposal is a serious issue in Hebron and Bethlehem, particularly for the poor living close to unregulated dumpsites at the edge of towns and villages. The grant will improve the quality and the efficiency of the solid waste management system and consequently will help protect the environment and health of citizens,” said Mariam Sherman, World Bank Country Director for the West Bank and Gaza. The service providers – which include the Municipalities and Village Councils, the Joint Services Councils for Planning and Development, and the Joint Services Council of Hebron and Bethlehem (JSC-H&B) – will receive subsidies to improve the services of collection and management of solid waste, as well as promote the financial sustainability of the solid waste management system.
“This project is one of the first in this sector to use an output-based aid (OBA) approach; the OBA subsidy, which will serve as an incentive to the service providers, will be disbursed once they meet performance targets. The grant will provide much needed support to the local authorities and will foster sustainable solid waste management services,” said Carmen Nonay, Manager, GPOBA.
Hebron and Bethlehem are the poorest governorates in the West Bank and generate 20 percent of the area’s total solid waste. While primary service collection is carried out, the fiscal and institutional constraints significantly affect the quality and the sustainability of the system. The project aims to improve the quality and cost-recovery of waste management, including sanitary disposal and treatment.
“The performance mechanism provides incentives to achieve efficient collection, transportation, proper use of disposal facilities, and appropriate planning and monitoring through a modern integrated Management Information System for affordable and safe management of waste, including dangerous waste. The performance scorecard system will systemically track progress and will help our member municipalities to learn from one another, and possibly others in the region,” said Dr. Daoud Zaatari, Mayor of Hebron, Chairman, Joint Services Council for Hebron and Bethlehem.
The OBA approach provides well-designed incentives to increase service quality which in turn will affect customer willingness to pay and gradually recover costs borne by the service providers. The OBA subsidy will phase out after four years of the newly constructed landfill’s operations at Al Minya, when user revenues will sufficiently cover the increased costs of adequate service delivery. The OBA pilot is part of the larger Southern West Bank Solid Waste Management Project, supported by the World Bank, the European Union and other donors, following the successful implementation of a similar project in the Northern West Bank. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is supporting JSC-H&B through a public-private partnership to manage the new sanitary landfill and related facilities. IFC is also providing technical support to JSC-H&B to assist with the start-up and implementation of both the World Bank and GPOBA-funded projects.
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The Solid Waste Management OBA pilot in the West Bank, team led by Noriko Oe, improves access to solid waste management (SWM) services in the poorer part of Southern West Bank. Al-Minya landfill, the only facility for sanitary treatment and disposal of solid waste in the area, is operated through the first ever public-private partnership (PPP) in the Palestinian Territories, a collaboration among the IFC, the World Bank, and GPOBA. The first successful SWM project using OBA, the project is operating in a challenging environment affected by conflict and violence, and has expanded the potential for OBA beyond traditional sectors, partners, and country contexts. Approximately 840,000 citizens of Bethlehem and Hebron governorates are now benefitting from improved SWM services.
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The awards were presented by Ede Ijjasz-Vásquez, Senior Director for the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice (SURR), who praised the winning projects for their strong links to the goals of both GPOBA and SURR. “All of these projects support more resilient, inclusive, sustainable communities,” he said. “They push the frontiers of development approaches in ways that are producing real results.”
Carmen Nonay, Practice Manager for SURR’s Partnerships and Resource Mobilization unit, expressed her appreciation to the teams within the World Bank that are working with OBA and RBF approaches. “Collaborating on projects is a very rewarding experience, and these innovative approaches have the potential to change the way we all view development solutions.”
Catherine Commander O’Farrell, Head of GPOBA, part of SURR’s Partnerships and Resource Mobilization unit, stressed the range of the winning projects and the challenges they overcame for successful implementation, whether working in areas affected by conflict and fragility or utilizing climate-change mitigation mechanisms in untested regions, noting “Each project is pioneering in its own way.”
The Inn-OBA-tions awards were divided into four categories to recognize specific achievements using results based approaches. The Pioneer Award recognizes a project that takes a visionary approach to working in less-tested sectors or challenging environments; the Collaboration Award goes to a project that leverages partnerships and exemplifies cooperation among World Bank units, governments, and/or other development partners; the Social Inclusion/Green Award honors projects supporting the development of green, inclusive, and resilient communities while addressing the social inclusion of the poor, vulnerable, and other excluded groups; and the newly created Governance Award goes to a project that exemplifies accountability and capacity building through effective governance.
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In West Bank and Gaza, two of the poorest governorates (Hebron and Bethlehem) at this project's start generated 34 percent of the 1.2 million tons of waste produced annually. The solid waste sector in these two governorates suffered from poor planning, high operations and maintenance costs, and limited financial resources.
GPOBA and IFC provided funding for an OBA project in the two governorates to increase access to municipal solid waste services and improve financial sustainability. The OBA subsidy partially supported to pay for costs associated with waste disposal at Al Minya landfill, allowing providers to focus resources on improving services at other points on the SWM chain. The subsidy was designed to decrease over time as fee collection increases, providing an incentive to strengthen efforts to collect solid waste fees.
Related IFC feature story: Better Waste Disposal Offers Better Way of Life in the West Bank