GPOBA Annual Report 2009
February 2, 2010 – GPOBA’s Annual Report 2009 says that output-based aid (OBA) can help improve delivery of basic infrastructure and social services to the poor, and is an approach that is “maturing” and proving to have a meaningful role both in the World Bank Group (WBG) and the wider development community.
 GPOBA, a global partnership program administered by the World Bank, broadened its activities in fiscal year 2009 to include a new knowledge and learning program on OBA, the report says.
GPOBA’s increased focus on training and dissemination of best practices is part of the program’s transition into a Center of Expertise on OBA.
It goes hand-in-hand with GPOBA’s efforts to encourage mainstreaming of OBA within the World Bank and with the development partners.
GPOBA’s portfolio of OBA subsidy schemes increased to US$109.3 million in fiscal 2009, with nine new grant agreements signed, expected to benefit around 3 million poor people.
The majority of the new funding will support schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa and in the energy and health sectors. The new projects will provide, for example:
The report also records progress in GPOBA’s pilot projects. Sixteen are now delivering outputs and eleven have disbursed against independently verified outputs, benefiting over 491,000 people so far. The outputs include:
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