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On February 22, the Ghana Ministry of Education held a ceremonial launch of the Ghana Education Outcomes Project—touted as the “largest education outcomes fund in the world.” Notable speakers included Senior Presidential Adviser Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Minister of Education Yaw Osei Adutwum, the British High Commissioner, and the World Bank Practice Manager for Education, among others.
GEOP aims to support out-of-school children (OOSC) to reintegrate into Ghana’s formal education system and improve learning outcomes in primary schools. The $30 million project—funded by GPRBA through a $25.5 grant from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office with a $4.5 contribution from the Government of Ghana—builds on the ongoing work of the IDA-financed Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP), which aims to improve the quality of education outcomes in Ghana by supporting teaching and learning.
The operation will target approximately 70,000 OOSC in areas with the highest absentee and dropout rates, in districts historically deprived of a strong educational infrastructure, and in the Greater Accra and Kumasi Metropolitan districts. In addition, students already enrolled in 600 GALOP-beneficiary schools will benefit from strengthened interventions supported by service providers.
The project is one of four impact bonds financed by the World Bank, and the first in the education sector. Under the impact bond model, the government will work with social investors and non-state actors as service providers to implement the program. Social investors will provide the upfront financing in cases where service providers are unable to do so. Payments will be made based on agreed-upon outcomes, transferring the financial risk away from the government and onto the implementers.
“We look forward to seeing the results,” said the Minister of Education during the launch event and, in line with the results-based approach, “if you don’t succeed, we don’t pay you.”
View the project page here, and read more about GEOP in this blog.
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John Kojo Armah is the managing director of COMSANS sanitation services, a company that specializes in compost toilets.
COMSANS has been in business for a few years, and thanks to the support of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA), the company was able to expand, hire more workers, and build toilets quicker and more sustainably.
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Samuel Gyabah is the founder of Samalex Solutions a social enterprise that produces micro-flush and bio-digester toilets. Through workshops and training from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA), Samuel has improved his technical ability, his relationship with workers, and their customer relationship.
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Robert Quansah is the managing director of Daakyebi, a construction company in Accra, Ghana.
Through the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA), Robert and his team received training and support that is enabling them to build more and better toilets in their community, thereby contributing to mitigating the effects of the sanitation problem in Ghana. Robert was able to hire more people and expand his business.
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To commemorate World Toilet Day (19 November 2021), the World Bank launched this set of five videos on the GPRBA-supported Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project, featuring interviews with engineers, officials and beneficiaries.
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This analysis designed an Output-Based Aid (OBA) Sanitation Fund for the provision of water and environmental sanitation services in low-income areas in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA).
With the analytical support of this technical assistance activity -- delivered in two tranches -- the RBF investment (subsidy) project was prepared, passed the appraisal stage and was successfully completed in June 2018.
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This case study is part of a series to highlight project components that have enabled GPRBA to successfully deploy results-based finance (RBF) approaches for the provision of basic services to low-income communities,with efficiency, transparency and accountability. This analysis is focused on the Output-Based Aid Urban Sanitation Facility for the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) project in Ghana. The objective was to increase access to improved sanitation for people living in low-income communities in the GAMA.
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The project's aim was to increase access to improved sanitation for low-income communities' residents in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) by providing Output-Based Aid (OBA) subsidies as incentives to service providers.
This was the foundation of the subsequent RBF investment project for the Ghana GAMA Urban Sanitation Facility, which closed in June 2018.
The subsidies provided for the construction of sanitation facilities and the provision of desludging services.
The subsidies served to bridge the gap faced by low-income households when seeking to install in-house sanitation facilities and establishing the use of public toilet to end the practice of open defecation.
The project also mobilized financial resources from micro-financing institutions and supported the scale-up of business models that included soft loans for the provision of sanitation facilities in low-income communities in the GAMA.
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This activity supports the Beneficiary Assessment (BA) for the completed OBA subsidy project of Solar PV Systems to Increase Access to Electricity Services in Ghana that was closed in September 2014, having disbursed $4 million against verified deliverables.
As planned, the BA was carried out by the Government of Ghana, while the output of this activity was a draft lesson learned which is under review. The World Bank Africa Region is considering preparing a working paper based on the experience of Solar PV Systems in Ghana.