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GPOBA's Strategic Vision is that by fiscal year 2012-2013:

• OBA will be a well-tested results-based instrument regularly incorporated in project design to support the sustainable delivery of basic services to target populations.
  
• GPOBA will be a recognized center of expertise, providing funding for technical assistance and dissemination only. No more subsidy funding will be available after fiscal year 2013.

To make this vision a reality, GPOBA will work towards three objectives:

1. Design and implement OBA to support the sustainable delivery of basic services to the poor;
2. Encourage the adoption of OBA approaches by developing countries, donors, and international financial institutions (mainstreaming);
3. Identify OBA best practices and disseminate information and guidance.

GPOBA will use all three of its funding windows to achieve these strategic objectives:

Window 1 (Technical Assistance) and Window 2 (Dissemination) will be reinvigorated to:

• define, test and verify OBA standards on what works well;
• disseminate best practices in OBA and strategically promote OBA approaches to development partners.

Window 3 (Subsidies) will be used to help define, test, and verify OBA standards mainly in the “mature” OBA sectors (water, energy, telecommunications, transport, and health), preferably in collaboration with development partners.

Window 3 activities will gradually be phased out as GPOBA transforms into a Center of Expertise on OBA.

 What is meant by mainstreaming?

OBA will be one of the key approaches considered by development partners for improving access to basic services in developing countries.