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In June, Lesotho's Health and Social Welfare Minister officially handed over three publicly-run clinics to one of Africa's largest private health care providers, Netcare. The clinics are part of a US$100 million public-private partnership (PPP) scheme to replace the 100-year old Queen Elizabeth Hospital. A GPOBA grant will help subsidize the cost of services for residents in Maseru District. Read more >>
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| Bangladesh: Two Grants Signed to Help Low Income Households Gain Access to Electricity |
Two GPOBA grants for a total of US$8.3million will help expand access to electricity for more than 140,000 households (or about 700,000 people) and 5000 small to medium enterprises like timber mills, poultry farms and irrigation pumps in remote areas of Bangladesh. The grants will subsidize the cost of Solar Home System and mini-grid installations.
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| Vietnam: GPOBA Grant to Help Provide Secondary Education for Poor Children |
A GPOBA grant of US$3 million will help increase access to secondary education for about 7,500 poor students. The project, one of the first to use an output-based aid approach for education, will subsidize places in upper secondary schools for lower secondary graduates who cannot afford the tuition fees at privately owned and semi-private schools.
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| New OBApproaches Titles and Translations |
| A new OBApproaches paper provides an overview of the use and performance of output-based aid (OBA). The paper is based on the recently published World Bank study, "Output-Based Aid: Lessons Learned and Best Practices" and is available in four languages. Read OBApproaches Note 33 in Arabic, English, French or Spanish |
| Cameroon: Innovative Approach to Subsidizing Water Connections for the Poor |
A Cameroon water connection scheme is the first GPOBA project to be implemented under an affermage contract and also the first subsidized water connection program in West Africa to be implemented through an output-based aid mechanism. OBApproaches Note 34 highlights the emerging lessons learned from the innovative design of the project.
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Output-Based Aid for Water Supply in Uganda's Small Towns
In Uganda small private companies have been operating water supply systems since 2001. OBApproaches Note 35 shares lessons and experiences from a pilot output-based aid project that is leveraging private sector finance and expertise to provide access to piped water for about 45,000 people in small towns and rural growth centers. Read More: English, French |
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Indonesia: Applying Output-Based Aid Principles on a Larger Scale
The World Bank approved a loan of US$220 million in June, 2010 for a Local Government and Decentralization project in Indonesia. The project, the first Bank project to apply output-based aid (OBA) principles on a large scale, aims to increase the accountability of local governments in their use of Specific Purpose Grants, known as DAK. Read More |
