GPRBA participated in the sixth session of the U.K.'s Government Outcomes Lab "Engaging with Evidence" series to discuss the role of outcomes-based financing and impact bonds in building resilient services during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the recovery process. (Review GPRBA presentation) 

Ghana provides electricity for 83% of its population, the second highest rate in Sub-Saharan Africa, but connecting isolated areas to the grid has proved very difficult. The solution: investing in solar-powered mini-grids like this one, built with support from IDA, the World Bank Group's fund for the poorest. In the towns around the Volta River, 10,000 Ghanaians now enjoy uninterrupted power, which enhances security and brings new economic opportunities. "It was difficult operating my business when we didn't have access to electricity.

Ghana provides electricity for 83% of its population, the second highest rate in Sub-Saharan Africa, but connecting isolated areas to the grid has proved very difficult. The solution: investing in solar-powered mini-grids like this one, built with support from IDA, the World Bank Group's fund for the poorest. In the towns around the Volta River, 10,000 Ghanaians now enjoy uninterrupted power, which enhances security and brings new economic opportunities. "It was difficult operating my business when we didn't have access to electricity.

GPRBA's first project in the solid waste management sector was for the benefit of residents in the Bethlehem and Hebron governorates in the southern West Bank; components of this project included consruction of the Al-Minya Sanitary Landfill and the closing of dozens of illegal dumpsite, establishment of recycling facilities, and jobs training for waste pickers. GPRBA worked with the IFC and the World Bank to bring improved solid waste services to 840,000 residents. 

This IFC-produced video describes the pioneering solid waste management project for the Bethlehem and Hebron Governorates, and recognizes GPRBA's (ex-GPOBA) role in bringing the project to fruition. As the first public-private partnership in the West Bank (PPP) for sanitary waste disposal, this new landfill replaced many illegal and informal dumping grounds with greater health and environmental hazards. This project was designed to benefit about 840,000 residents and is expected to cut down greenhouse-gas emissions by 13,400 tons over the next few years.

This video presents three basic elements that distinguish results-based financing from traditional development funding:

In Kenya, rapid urbanization has huge implications for water use and wastewater management in the country’s cities, which are already facing increasing water and sanitation demands, such as pollution and overexploitation. GPRBA's water and sanitation project in Nairobi provided about 85,000 people in the city's informal settlements with access to water service and connections to the sewerage network.

From 2010 to 2013, the GPOBA: Vietnam Education Project provided tuition subsidies to more than 8,000 poor students to attend non-public upper secondary schools and professional secondary schools. Using an output-based aid approach, the project linked the payment of a tuition subsidy with student performance.