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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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/652451497360602637/OBA-in-infrastructure-the-experience-so-far http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27136 |
| Summary: | 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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