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SPECIAL FEATURES
Video: Natural Gas in
Colombia:
Connecting Poor Households
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This video tells the story
of GPOBA and Promigas' work supporting a project
to bring new natural gas connections to up to
35,000 poor households in Colombia's Caribbean
coastal area.
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Gender
Impacts of OBA Projects
To
celebrate International Women’s Day 2009, GPOBA
took a look at the gender impacts of
output-based aid projects in the water and
sanitation, energy, health, and ICT sectors.
Find out more. Read
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PROJECT NEWS
GPOBA Grant
Agreements
Between January and March
2009, GPOBA signed three grant agreements in the
water, health, and telecommunications sectors in
countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia.
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Cambodia: Rural Telecom
Access
This scheme will support
increased access to telephone services for poor
families in four of the poorer provinces of
northern and northwestern Cambodia. Up to 52,000
poor households or 260,000 Cambodians are
expected to benefit from the scheme, through
improved telecommunications network coverage and
the installation of public access
points.
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Indonesia:
Access to Safe Water
This project
will support increased access to piped water
networks for poor households in Surabaya. Up to
77,500 people are expected to benefit from the
scheme through new household connections,
including bulk supply or “master meter”
connections for particularly poor, dense or
informal communities not otherwise eligible for
household supply. Read
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Lesotho: Access to Medical
Services
This GPOBA grant will
provide subsidies for inpatient services at a
new 390-bed National Referral Hospital and
outpatient services at three semi-urban filter
clinics. These facilities will serve Maseru
district, which has a population of almost
500,000 people or one third of the country’s
population.
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Uganda: First OBA Healthy Baby
Born
The first OBA healthy baby was
born to a Ugandan woman thanks to a GPOBA-funded
reproductive health voucher scheme. This pilot
project will increase women’s access to trained
medical professionals throughout pregnancy and
provide subsidized STD treatment to poor
Ugandans. Up to 135,912 people will benefit from
GPOBA’s intervention.
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Mongolia: Access to Modern ICT
Services
A GPOBA-funded project in
Mongolia has brought modern telephony and
Internet services to over 22,300 members of poor
communities living in remote and sparsely
populated areas of Mongolia. At closing, the
project had completed three pilots. Read more
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Telecommunications: New Models for Universal
Access in Latin America (February
2009) |
During the
1990s many Latin American countries developed
universal access programs, financed through
universal service funds, to increase
telecommunications access in rural and
low-income areas. After more than 10 years’
experience, a study evaluated their
performance.
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Output-based
aid in Armenia: Connecting poor urban households
to gas service (January 2009)
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Gas-based
heating offers an efficient heating solution for
poor urban households in Armenia, a country with
severe winters, but many families cannot afford
the connection costs. GPOBA and the World Bank
are funding a grant scheme for up to 10,000 poor
urban households.
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New IFC Paper: The Philippines:
Securing Private Sector Participation in
Off-Grid Areas
To
address the challenge of providing power to
remote islands in the Philippines, the
Government introduced a private sector
participation scheme for power generation, with
support from the IFC’s Infrastructure Advisory
department. GPOBA provided technical assistance
for project design and development.
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Updated OBA Fact Sheet in English,
French, and Spanish (February 2009)
This succinct
two-pager explaining the basics of output-based
aid is now available in three languages.
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Energy
Week: OBA Approaches in the Energy
Sector
GPOBA
organized a learning session on output-based aid
approaches in the energy sector at the World
Bank’s Energy Sector Learning Week on April 6-9,
2009. The session included a case study of a
rural electrification project in Ethiopia with
funding from IDA and GPOBA. Read
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Water Week: OBA Approaches in the
Water Sector
The World Bank held its
annual Water Week on February 17-19.
Output-based aid approaches were discussed at
two sessions, one on experience of OBA in the
water sector so far and one on financing access
for rural water supply and sanitation. Read
more and access the presentations>>
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The
Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) is a global
partnership, initially established as a multi-donor trust
fund, which aims to fund, design, demonstrate and document OBA
approaches to support the sustainable delivery of basic
services to those least able to afford them and to those
currently without access.
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