Rewarding Success: The Global Partnership for Results-based Approaches
Results-based financing (RBF) is the idea that financial support should be contingent on achieving predefined, independently verifiable results.
Helping Ugandan mothers realize their dream of delivering a healthy baby
By Jessica Lopez -- The first time I traveled to Uganda, in October 2016, I met a young mother whose strength and resilience I still think about today; an important reminder of why and for whom I work as an international development professional.
Sector Toolkits on How to Close Gender Gaps with Results-Based Financing
GPRBA is actively seeking to ensure that the projects it supports include women as beneficiaries. GPRBA is also undertaking efforts to monitor and evaluate the outcomes to determine how to improve the inclusion of women and girls as project beneficiaries.
How Can Results-Based Financing Help in Securing Land and Property Rights?
Try to imagine a well-functioning economy without having secure land tenure and property rights established. Would investors and service providers enter such a risky environment? Would banks be wary of offering and lending? Could conventional commerce or business transactions even operate optimally?
Uzbekistan: GPRBA's First Impact Bond to Increase Access to Preschool Education
A new education funding project using social impact bonds (SIBs) seeks to help increase the number of children ages 3-7 enrolled in preschools in disadvantaged urban areas across Uzbekistan. The planned program is made possible through a $4.85 million grant provided by the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA).
About 350,000 West Bank Properties Targeted for Legal Registration
Ramallah, November 6th. The World Bank, acting as administrator for the Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA), signed a Grant Agreement on November 6th for US$4.6 million with the Palestinian National Authority to improve access to registered land and property-related services.
Preschool Children in Uzbekistan Extended Access to Education
Increase in enrollment of preschool children to be funded by a US $4.85 million education impact bond
Vietnam: More than 2,000 Deaf Children to Benefit from Improved Education Through Sign Language
Over 2,000 primary school deaf students in Vietnam are targeted for a better education through an improved Vietnamese sign language-based curricula and teacher training, to be made possible through a grant agreement signed on July 29th between the Government of Vietnam and the World Bank.
165 Villages in Tanzania to Get Solar-Powered Water Pumps
Dar es Salaam, September 24, 2019. About 165 rural Tanzanian villages in nine regions* will have access to a sustainable water supply through improved solar pumping systems.
