OBA in Infrastructure : The Experience So Far

Increasing access to basic infrastructure services is critical to reducing poverty and enabling poor and marginalized people to participate in and benefit from economic development. Too often, however, the gap between the cost of the initial servic...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	OUTPUT-BASED AID POVERTY FINANCE INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY TECHNICAL CAPACITY SMEs SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/652451497360602637/OBA-in-infrastructure-the-experience-so-far http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27136

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spelling	okr-10986-271362021-05-25T10:54:39Z OBA in Infrastructure : The Experience So Far World Bank OUTPUT-BASED AID POVERTY FINANCE INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY TECHNICAL CAPACITY SMEs SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE Increasing access to basic infrastructure services is critical to reducing poverty and enabling poor and marginalized people to participate in and benefit from economic development. Too often, however, the gap between the cost of the initial service connection and a user’s ability to pay for that connection prevents the poor from availing of basic services. Output-based aid (OBA), a form of results-based financing (RBF), addresses this gap, supporting poor people in accessing services such as household connections to the water supply or electricity grid, renewable energy systems, or solid waste management. By promoting the inclusion of people who may otherwise be left out of development gains, as well as encouraging utility sector reform, OBA supports the goal of universal access to basic services, one of the aims of the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper highlights the BA experience in infrastructure so far and the results achieved. 2017-06-13T22:57:27Z 2017-06-13T22:57:27Z 2017-06 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/652451497360602637/OBA-in-infrastructure-the-experience-so-far http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27136 English en_US OBApproaches;No. 54 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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description	Increasing access to basic infrastructure services is critical to reducing poverty and enabling poor and marginalized people to participate in and benefit from economic development. Too often, however, the gap between the cost of the initial service connection and a user’s ability to pay for that connection prevents the poor from availing of basic services. Output-based aid (OBA), a form of results-based financing (RBF), addresses this gap, supporting poor people in accessing services such as household connections to the water supply or electricity grid, renewable energy systems, or solid waste management. By promoting the inclusion of people who may otherwise be left out of development gains, as well as encouraging utility sector reform, OBA supports the goal of universal access to basic services, one of the aims of the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper highlights the BA experience in infrastructure so far and the results achieved.
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title	OBA in Infrastructure : The Experience So Far
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OBA in Infrastructure : The Experience So Far

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