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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.
Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Water Utilities: A Review of Experiences in Developing Countries
This book analyzes the market growth of PPPs in the developing world since 1990, and the performance of more than 65 large water PPP projects-representing more than 100 million people-for access, service quality, operational efficiency, and tariff levels.
Performance-based contracting for health services in developing countries : a toolkit
This toolkit provides practical advice to anyone involved in, or who is interested in becoming involved in, performance-based contracting of health services with non-state providers in developing countries.
New Models for Universal Access to Telecommunications Services in Latin America
This report examines the experience of Universal Access Funds in bringing access to information and communication technologies to citizens in underserved and unserved areas, and makes recommendations for a new generation of universal access programs for the 21st century.
A Guide to Competitive Vouchers in Health
This guide aims at providing policymakers and donors with the tools needed to determine the appropriateness of competitive vouchers, as well as information on the design, execution, and monitoring of projects under this type of scheme.
Contracting for public services: Output-based aid and its applications
Designed as a guide for aid practitioners and policymakers in developing countries, the book gathers cases of innovative, output-based approaches from across the infrastructure and social sectors, including construction of schools and IT learning facilities, energy, primary health care, roads, telecommunications, and water.