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Cities Alliance, GPOBA and PPIAF Support to Sub-National Entities in Developing Countries to Deliver Urban Infrastructure Services
October 2011
An Incentive Rebate Approach to Growing Private Water Systems: Lessons From a Cambodian Experiment
August 2011
Text Messaging for Management in Uganda Output-Based Voucher Program
May 2011
Output-Based Aid in the Results-Based Financing Universe
March 2011
How to Engage with the Private Sector in Public-Private Partnerships in Emerging Markets
February 2011
Uganda: Small Scale Infrastructure Provider (SSIP) Program - Water
December 2010
Brazil: Innovative Results-Based Approach to Tackling Water Scarcity in São Paulo
October 2010
Contracting out government functions and services in post-conflict and fragile situations
October 2010
Kenya: Paying for Performance - The Reproductive Output-Based Aid Program
Innovative Finance for Development Solutions - Initiatives of the World Bank Group
This report reviews new financing mechanisms and instruments in all three areas of Innovative Finance: generating additional funds, enhancing the efficiency of financial flows, and linking financial flows to results, pioneered and/or used by the World Bank Group and its array of development partners.
PPIAF Facilitates Micro-Financing for Peri-Urban Water Providers in Kenya
This note from the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)'s Impact Stories series highlights the challenges for Kenyan community-based organizations (CBOs) trying to secure microfinance from commercial banks in order to develop small water operations in peri-urban areas.
Some Days Are Better Than Others: Lessons Learned from Uganda’s First Results-Based Financing Pilot
Access to Telecommunications in Rural or Low-income Areas
This World Bank Working Paper, explores the limited acccess to telecommunications for rural or low income areas, despite gains made in terms of access as a result of reforms in the sector in the early 1990s.
A Tale of Two Countries: Contracting for Health Services in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
This publication makes a good case for devolving responsibility to implementing agencies. Five health professionals give their opinions on why contracting delivery of health services to the non-profit sector worked well in one country but sluggishly in the other.
Helping a new breed of private water operators access infrastructure finance
Note No. 25 from the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)'s Gridlines series highlights knowledge and experiences from microfinance for community water schemes in Kenya.
Microfinance for Rural Piped Water Services in Kenya
Policy Note No. 1 from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) highlights the potential of Output-based Aid (OBA) and microfinance to overcome significant limitations in access to finance for the water sector in Kenya.
Population Council RH Vouchers project launches newsletter
The Population Council RH Vouchers project recently launched a quarterly newsletter that will cover different angles on healthcare finance with a particular focus on reproductive health voucher programs in East Africa and South Asia.
ARGENTINA: Provincial Maternal and Child Health Insurance. A Results-Based Financing Project at Work
En Breve is a regular series of notes highlighting recent lessons emerging from the operational and analytical program of the World Bank‘s Latin America and Caribbean Region. This issue looks at the impact of the innovative Maternal-Child Health Insurance Program, known as Plan Nacer, designed to address child and maternal health care needs in Argentina.
Applying the principles of OBA in water and sanitation
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has published a review of the Output-based aid (OBA) approach as a funding strategy to ensure the efficient use of funds for projects to improve access to water and sanitation in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The review highlights OBA's main objective of achieving sustainable increase of access to basic services for the poorest communities.
Working Paper No. 09/144: The Effects of the Financial Crisis on Public-Private Partnerships (2009)
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