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Ethiopia: Rural Electricity Access This scheme will support increased access to electricity in rural towns and villages with grid access, within the context of the Universal Electricity Access Program (UEAP) in Ethiopia. Up to 228,571 low-income households will benefit from the scheme through a new or regularized electricity connection and the provision of two energy-efficient Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs). Read more >> |
Ghana: Solar Home Systems
This project will support increased electricity access through renewable energy technology for poor households in remote rural regions of Ghana. Up to 15,000 poor households or 90,000 people are expected to benefit from the scheme, mainly through solar home systems (SHS) but also through solar lanterns. Read more>>
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Nigeria: Pre-paid Health Insurance Scheme
This GPOBA grant will establish a community health scheme for low-income families in the Ikeja IT village in Lagos. The scheme will provide affordable pre-paid health insurance plans for up to 22,500 beneficiaries.
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Vietnam: Rural Water Supply - Technical Training
This grant will fund technical training for managers of water schemes constructed under the GPOBA EMWF Rural Water Supply Development Project in Vietnam. The aim is to ensure that the water managers receive the training they need on the technical, financial, and customer management aspects of the schemes. Read more >> |
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Output-Based Aid in India: Community Water Project in Andhra Pradesh (October 2008)
Providing safe drinking water to poor families in the coastal area of Andhra Pradesh is critical for the economic development of the region as well as to improve health and living conditions. A community water project supported by GPOBA is increasing innovation and efficiency in the sector through a community-based public-private partnership model using cost-effective water purification technology.
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Targeting subsidies through output-based aid
(October 2008)
Output-based aid (OBA), or performance-based grants, can be used to help target services to the poor. Under OBA schemes, service providers are compensated only after delivery of a specified output to a targeted beneficiary, who in most cases would be a poor household or community. Read more >> |
GPOBA Program Council Meets in London
GPOBA held a meeting of its Program Council (governing body) in London on November 10. The GPOBA donors were positive about the progress GPOBA is making in implementing its vision of mainstreaming output-based aid (OBA) approaches in the World Bank Group and with other development partners. They also discussed the impact of the current financial crisis on infrastructure and OBA, and concluded that OBA approaches could be included in social safety nets to ensure access to basic infrastructure services for the growing number of poor households.
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GPOBA Delivers Training to MCC
On December 4-5, GPOBA delivered a training workshop on output-based aid to staff of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a US Government corporation designed to work with some of the world's poorest countries. The training covered design and implementation of OBA projects, and a discussion of steps MCC can take to develop OBA approaches.
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