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GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 i Table of Contents Acronyms and Abbreviations iii Message from the Global Director iv Letter from the Program Management Unit v Who We Are 1 Our Value 1 Our Impact 2 Strategic Focus 2 Support from Donors 4 What We Do 5 Portfolio 5 Additions to the Portfolio 6 Portfolio Monitoring 7 Project Completion Reports 7 Evaluations 7 Technical Assistance 8 Knowledge Management and Communications 8 Publications 9 Collaboration and Technical Learning 9 Knowledge Exchanges and Events 9 Communications 11 Looking Ahead 13 Appendices 15 Appendix A: Financial Statements 16 Appendix B: GPRBA Projects 18 Appendix C: GPRBA Technical Assistance and Knowledge Activities 22 Appendix D: GPRBA Communications Products 24 Appendix E: GPRBA Team 26 Our Implementing Partners 28 Where We Work 29 ii GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Figures Figure 1. Evolution of GPRBA by Fiscal Year 3 Figure 2. GPRBA Donors 3 Figure 3. Distribution of Funding of GPRBA Subsidy Projects 6 Figure 4. GPRBA Milestones 6 Figure 5. Technical Assistance Disbursements 8 Figure 6. Center of Expertise 9 Boxes Box 1. RBF Forum in Addis Ababa 10 Tables Table A.1. Donor Contributions to GPRBA (in $millions) 16 Table A.2. Receipt of Donor Contributions by Fiscal Year (in $millions) 16 Table A.3. Disbursements 17 Table B.1. Ongoing Projects 18 Table B.2. Fully Implemented Projects 19 Table C.1. Ongoing TA and Dissemination Projects 22 Table D.1. GPRBA Communication Products in FY19 24 Table D.2. GPRBA Feature Stories in FY19 25 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 iii Acronyms and Abbreviations DFAT Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade IFC International Finance Corporation (Australia) IVA independent verification agent DFID Department for International Development KML knowledge management and learning (United Kingdom) MFD Maximizing Finance for Development DGIS Directorate-General for International Cooperation (the Netherlands) MSW municipal solid waste FCV fragility, conflict and violence OBA output-based aid FY fiscal year PforR Program for Results GBV gender-based violence PMU Program Management Unit GPOBA Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid PPP public-private partnership GPRBA Global Partnership for Results-Based RBF results-based financing Approaches RBBF results-based and blended financing GSURR Global Practice for Social, Urban, Rural and SDG Sustainable Development Goal Resilience Sida Swedish International Development Agency IB impact bond SWM solid-waste management IDA International Development Association TA technical assistance iv GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 MESSAGE FROM THE GLOBAL DIRECTOR Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice (GPURL) Sameh Wahba World Bank Group Global Director t is my pleasure to present the Annual GPRBA also serves hard-to-reach areas, a necessity in I Report for the Global Partnership for Results- Based Approaches (GPRBA) for fiscal year 2019 (FY19). achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Whereas most global RBF projects are in the health and education sectors, GPRBA has unique experience in both the social and infrastructure sectors—with Housed in the Urban, Disaster Risk Management, most of its projects supporting the extension of basic Resilience, and Land Global Practice (GPURL), GPRBA infrastructure services, such as energy, water, and supports our work of building inclusive, resilient, and sanitation, to reach the last mile. sustainable cities and communities, using innovative results-based financing (RBF) instruments to help In line with its twin goals of reducing extreme poverty address the many development challenges that the and boosting shared prosperity in a sustainable world faces today. manner, the World Bank is supporting local and national governments in creating the enabling financial By linking payments to actual results achieved and its and regulatory frameworks to attract investment and explicit and unique pro-poor focus, GPRBA fosters promote sustainable economic growth, and establishing inclusive development and helps address service and strengthening institutions to deliver improved delivery gaps arising from the challenge of increased infrastructure and social services. RBF, and, in turn, urbanization in developing countries. It creates GPRBA, are becoming increasingly important in this work. financial incentives for service providers to extend basic services specifically to low-income communities, This annual report gives evidence that GPRBA is well- while also providing incentives for consumers in these suited to take on the challenge of providing flexible and communities to access the services. viable RBF solutions and is having proven impact. GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 v LETTER FROM THE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT UNIT Maitreyi Das Practice Manager Global Programs Y19 was an important year for us, as we GPRBA provides technical assistance to support F changed our name and focus from the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) to the Global Partnership on Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA). This change the design, implementation, and/or evaluation of RBF projects on the topics of energy, gender, urban development, and water and sanitation, in addition to disseminating relevant knowledge to a global network reflects GPRBA’s expanded mandate to move beyond of partners, donors, clients, and practitioners through focusing on output-based aid (OBA) to include more knowledge products and activities. flexible financing solutions for greater development impact. The flexibility provides greater opportunities The year ended with a commemoration of our work to design projects by connecting public- and private- over the past 16 years with an inaugural knowledge- sector investors to pool their resources. This goal is sharing event (the RBF Forum) in Addis Ababa. consistent with the World Bank Group’s “Maximizing Practitioners and stakeholders who are passionate Finance for Development” (MFD) strategy and the about RBF convened over 2.5 days. The event resulted donor community’s “billions to trillions” agenda in in rich and substantive discussions on the use of RBF, support of achieving the SDGs. including concrete and practical recommendations to take the approaches forward. The year’s highlights include the signing of two grant agreements for subsidy projects (solar water pumps in The results of the past year are due to the continued Tanzania and access to electricity in Zambia) that build commitment and support of our donors. Building on GPRBA’s experience in these sectors. Additionally, on this success, GPRBA will continue to increase projects that have been approved for commitment awareness of experiences with designing and include new and innovative approaches. For example, implementing RBF transactions, with the aim of in the West Bank, land administration services are using mainstreaming these instruments in the development RBF approaches for the first time and Uzbekistan has financing agenda. It will also explore collaboration with focused on early-childhood education as a novel way to new partners, as well as opportunities for scaling-up attract investors and improve outcomes. RBF instruments. WHO WE ARE nhancing the effectiveness of development GPRBA’s role has expanded over the years, from E spending is a priority for those seeking to achieve the SDGs and improve the lives of millions of people around the world who lack providing OBA in TA for infrastructure and social sectors to piloting subsidy projects in 2006. At the request of our donors, GPRBA bolstered its mandate access to basic infrastructure and social services, such as to incorporate more flexible RBF solutions and then electricity, clean water, improved sanitation and education. introduced three new strategic pillars: blended finance, GPRBA focuses on targeting low-income households who support to the World Bank’s Program-for-Results (PforR) would otherwise go unserved to ensure that no one is left financing instrument, and impact bonds. In February behind and address the issues that contribute to poverty, 2019, to reflect the new emphasis on using a variety of inequality and discrimination, and improve the socio- RBF instruments and mechanisms, GPOBA changed economic status of those that are marginalized. its name to GPRBA. Despite only a slight difference in lettering, this unleashes new opportunities for creativity Governments, donors, and development partners and flexibility in the program’s unwavering efforts recognize that this requires innovative development to collaborate with donors, governments and other financing solutions alongside traditional aid delivery. partners to help enable and empower residents of low- Such innovation has been GPRBA’s mandate and its focus income communities to live better lives. for the past 16 years, as it has explored and supported RBF approaches to the provision of basic services to low- income communities, with improved transparency and OUR VALUE accountability. With proven impact over that time frame, Since GPRBA’s inception, when it was one of the early plus a new and expanded strategic focus, GPRBA’s value- adopters of RBF, the organization has established itself added solutions are driving advances in human and as a unique and influential pioneer in development economic development. finance. A heightened focus on aid effectiveness and 1 2 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 accountability has led to greater acceptance and use violence (FCV) areas such as Solomon Islands where of RBF, such that in the past decade, about $25 billion GPRBA support focused on bringing electricity to hard worth of development spending has been tied to results. to reach areas. This includes a granular focus on what GPRBA has been at the forefront of this movement, “pro-poor” means. In doing so, it is thinking much having tested OBA globally in multiple sectors, and now more about groups and areas likely to be left out— having branched out into other RBF solutions. women, children, residents of informal settlements, wastepickers, persons with disabilities, forced migrants, GPRBA uses RBF to mobilize private investment in those who are disproportionately affected by climate- development projects, while ensuring that benefits reach related events, among others. New areas of innovation the targeted communities. Notably, every $1 of GPRBA include improving land administration services in the funding mobilized $3 in contributions from the private West Bank using RBF, and integrated services delivery sector, project implementers, consumers, governments, for the urban poor in Liberia addressing FCV issues and other development partners. Taking risks in piloting as well as a forthcoming project in FY20 on education new RBF instruments has enabled GPRBA to apply this for deaf children in Vietnam. GPRBA is one of the few type of mechanism in a variety of contexts. results-based innovative programs that have delved into these specific areas, seizing new opportunities and Additionally, GPRBA’s expertise is enhanced through adapting to these new realities. In addition, GPRBA has its knowledge and convening presence. It builds its applied these innovations across many sectors which capacity as an RBF Center of Expertise (CoE), supports directly respond to the core of the 2030 SDG Agenda numerous technical assistance (TA) and knowledge and to “leave no one behind”. learning activities, and manages an online platform or “community of practice” on RBF. Through its position within the World Bank Group and its operations, STRATEGIC FOCUS GPRBA directly channels donor funding to critical GPRBA’s strategic direction is anchored on three pillars, development challenges faced by client countries. as follows: • Blended Finance – RBF serves as a catalyst for OUR IMPACT unlocking additional financing for pro-poor Housed within the World Bank’s Urban, Disaster Risk infrastructure projects. Most of the projects GPRBA Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice has supported over the past 16 years have helped (URL), GPRBA (then called GPOBA, or Global leverage additional financing from governments, Partnership for Output-Based Aid)1 was established in donors and other partners, as well as from the 2003 to explore output-based aid (OBA) approaches private sector. to basic service provision. GPRBA has built a diverse • Program-for-Results – GPRBA played a pivotal in portfolio of 51 subsidy projects in 30 countries informing the World Bank’s Program-for-Results (reaching over 10 million verified beneficiaries) and (PforR) instrument, which supports government has supported numerous TA and knowledge activities. programs in which the use of country systems It is establishing itself as a CoE on RBF, accumulating and financing is disbursed upon the verification lessons learned and experiences from pilot projects of results. GPRBA brings a pro-poor focus and that serve as valuable resources for developing relevant, practical experience to strengthen PforR countries. GPRBA projects have also increased the projects and results frameworks, disbursement- viability of these pro-poor investments targeting low- linked indicators, verification protocols and income populations by helping to leverage additional partnerships. financing through commercial channels such as public- • Impact Bonds – Impact bonds are innovative, private partnerships and lending. results-based, financial contracts between an investor, an outcome funder and a service Innovation thrives on change; innovations succeed when they respond to new realities. GPRBA is doing the same and making use of new opportunities to 1 This document refers to the organization as GPRBA, except when focus on more challenging and fragile, conflict and referencing historical events that preceded the name change. GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 3 Figure 1. Evolution of GPRBA by Fiscal year Figure 2. GPRBA Donors 4 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 provider that tackle either social or international achieved. GPRBA was established by the U.K.’s development challenges. Impact bonds are a form Department for International Development (DFID) and of public-private partnership that rewards investors the World Bank in 2003 as a Bank-administered trust for successfully delivering impact. fund. Subsequently, four additional donors joined the partnership: the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Dutch Ministry of Foreign SUPPORT FROM DONORS Affairs (DGIS), the International Finance Corporation GPRBA has a strong and committed donor base (IFC), and the Swedish International Development supporting our efforts to link funding to actual results Cooperation Agency (Sida). W H AT W E D O PORTFOLIO share of funding, at 43 percent, followed by water and Subsidy projects are at the core of GPRBA’s business sanitation, at 36 percent. Details of the overall portfolio model, because their successes as well as failures are presented below. Appendix B highlights a list of all provide evidence and lessons for the compilation of projects active and completed by the end of the fiscal best practices. These projects are in a variety of sectors: year. energy, health, solid-waste management, education, telecommunications, and water and sanitation. At the close of FY19, the GPRBA cumulative portfolio consisted of 51 grant agreement in six sectors,2 totaling 2 The Water and Sanitation sector includes, water projects, sanitation $255 million. Forty-five projects have closed,3 with projects and irrigation projects. 3 Closed projects include legally closed projects, those for which disbursements of $144 million. In terms of regions, disbursement figures are final, net of refunds, and for which clients have Sub-Saharan Africa had the largest share of funding, completed all reporting requirements. Projects closed within the last at 54 percent, followed by South Asia, at 20 percent. six months might not be legally closed since clients have six months to In terms of sectors, energy accounted for the largest complete reporting requirements after the last disbursement. 5 6 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 ADDITIONS TO THE PORTFOLIO Figure 3. Distribution of Funding of This fiscal year, two grant agreements were signed in two experienced sectors, energy and water and GPRBA Subsidy Projects sanitation. By Region ZAMBIA:  lectricity Service E Access Project ($3 Latin America and the Caribbean 6% million/Sida) East Asia and Paci c 12% Objective:  To increase electricity access in Zambia’s South targeted rural areas Sub-Saharan Africa 54% Asia Estimated 20% beneficiaries: 115,000 Middle East and North Africa 8% Europe and Central Asia 1% TANZANIA:  ccelerating Solar A Water Pumping via Innovative Financing By Sector ($4.5 million/DGIS and Education 1.2% Sida) Objective:  To support sustainable Solid Waste Management 4.9% access to water in selected rural Water & Sanitation Health communities of Energy 42.8% 14.4% 35.9% Tanzania Estimated beneficiaries: 500,000 Telecommunications 0.8% Figure 4. GPRBA Milestones GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 7 PORTFOLIO MONITORING lower-income communities. Significant effort went into The GPRBA portfolio of subsidy projects consists of building the market for household sanitation, both on 51 projects in six sectors, taking place in 30 countries the supply and demand sides, before the project could and one territory, for total grant funding of $255.5 build the toilets at scale within the agreed timeframe set million, and cumulative disbursements of $144 million. at the design stage. The project’s first three years were With most projects located in Sub-Saharan Africa and largely focused on building the capacity of metropolitan South Asia, and in energy and water and sanitation and municipal assemblies and small and medium-sized (see figure 3 above), these projects have provided enterprises, education of households, and engagement over 10 million direct beneficiaries with access to basic with the microfinance institutions. A combination of services. Ongoing portfolio monitoring and analysis factors—competition among suppliers, increased scale, continues to be an integral part of GPRBA’s work improvement in technologies, inflation, depreciation program and provides valuable lessons to inform the of the local currency, and fund reallocations inside the design of projects funded by development agencies project—contributed to a larger number of sanitation and client countries. A full list of the subsidy projects facilities than projected. The number of beneficiaries can be found in Appendix B. reached was 47,190. PROJECT COMPLETION REPORTS KENYA: Nairobi Sanitation Project Documentation during post-completion (a project’s (I and II) ($4.91 million) last milestone) is critical to increase efficiency, and The project supported the Nairobi City Water and to complete a continuous cycle of knowledge, Sewerage Company (NCWSC) to expand water and gathering and transferring lessons to inform future sewerage service in six informal settlements and two development activities. The completion reports assess resettlement areas. The project helped to mobilize a the performance and results of an operation versus its $6 million commercial loan from a local bank to support objectives, and include lessons learned from its design the upfront investment. The number of beneficiaries and implementation. In FY19, completion reports were reached was 137,243. produced for the following three projects: EVALUATIONS BANGLADESH: OBA Sanitation Microfinance Program ($2.89 million) Impact Evaluation of Post-Electrification The project demonstrated that carefully designed Charcoal Switching by Household and catalytic funding can help leverage significant resources Productive Use of Electricity by Small for the sanitation sector. The GPRBA grant mobilized an Entrepreneurs in Zambia additional $22 million from local microfinance institutions This activity shed light on the effects of providing for household investments in hygienic sanitation. The electricity to the country’s largely informal small project surpassed the target results for the number business sector. It examined demand, appliance of hygienic latrines constructed (170,679 latrines), the usage, and prospects for small food service number of beneficiary households identified as poor businesses to switch from charcoal to electricity. It also (89 percent of households), the proportion of loans recommended how ZESCO (the national utility) can provided to female borrowers (96 percent), and overall support job creation through electrification. A survey household satisfaction (99.99 percent). The number of concluded that micro-entrepreneurs continued using beneficiaries reached was 776,590. and paying for the electricity connections obtained under the GPRBA project. The project encouraged GHANA: Urban Sanitation Facility for people to move away from more expensive diesel Greater Accra ($4.85 million) generators and fossil fuels, as well as from dangerous The facility overperformed by achieving 116 percent of and illegal connections. its planned output, and the OBA approach was scaled up by the parent International Development Association Bangladesh OBA Sanitation (IDA) project and adopted by the African Development Microfinance Project: Evaluation Report Bank for its activities in the country’s sanitation sector. GPRBA reviewed this project’s impact on market The project installed 7,685 sanitation facilities in Accra’s development in rural Bangladesh and assessed how 8 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Figure 5. Technical Assistance Disbursements Technical Assistance Disbursements (cumulative, $M) 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 much additional finance was leveraged because of these in Colombia and supporting the Government of activities. A workshop on the findings was held in Dhaka, Mozambique in the prevention of gender-based with local microfinance institutions, non-governmental violence. See Table C1 in the Appendices for more organizations (NGOs), and other local sanitation actors. detail. Over the past year, GPRBA offered TA in areas such as housing, clean cooking, and urban TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE development. GPRBA uses technical assistance to lay the foundations for future project design, build capacity among partners and governments, and test the applicability KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT of RBF in new sectors and environments. The insights AND COMMUNICATIONS and experience gained from TA initiatives contribute GPRBA’s knowledge management and learning (KML) to GPRBA’s knowledge base and are shared with program, which collects, and shares knowledge RBF practitioners. Cumulatively, since 2006, GPRBA gleaned from operational experiences, is a has disbursed over $30 million for these initiatives fundamental part of its capacity as a CoE on RBF, and (see figure 5 above). While current subsidy portfolio a core function that provides value to stakeholders. encompasses projects in well experienced sectors, the In FY19, GPRBA made progress on a plan to expand makeup of the TA responds to building on previous its knowledge and dissemination reach, following its successes such as in Indonesia where the National move to support a broader range of RBF mechanisms. Audit Agency, BPKP, has served as the verification Activities have included generating documents such as agent in irrigation, roads, sanitation, and water and reports, and lessons learned; deepening involvement is looking at opportunities in housing. In addition, with the RBF Knowledge Silo Breaker, formerly demand in newer areas of engagement and calls known as the community of practice (RBF KSB); and for innovation over the past year has led GPRBA to organizing events, including the inaugural RBF Forum offer TA in areas focused on climate-resilient housing in 2019. GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 9 the private sector for growth and sustainable  enter of Expertise Figure 6. C development. Two of the featured projects are Bangladesh Rural Sanitation and West Bank and Learning & Knowledge Gaza Solid Waste Management. Exchange COLLABORATION AND TECHNICAL LEARNING Collaboration with the World Bank, donors, clients, partners and stakeholders is an integral part of our KML Community activity. GPRBA partnered with the Social, Urban, Rural Events of Practice and Resilience (SURR) Global Practice to launch the RBF KSB. The RBF KSB conducted two flagship events this year, delivering technical trainings during the GSURR Forum and the inaugural RBF Forum. Website & Publications RBF Forum, May 15–17, 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Communications This was GPRBA’s flagship event of the year, combining expertise, knowledge sharing and awareness building. The event exposed practitioners and experts to new information and opportunities across countries and regions, catalyzing innovative thinking leading to PUBLICATIONS improved solutions for development challenges. The Documentation of lessons learned and content forum covered the landscape of current RBF approaches generation are core to GPRBA’s knowledge and included deep dives into specific instruments, as management program. Documents published this year well as sectoral discussions and cross-cutting sessions on include the following: fragility, inclusion and climate change. See box 1 below. • New Perspectives on Results-Based Blended Maximizing Finance for Development for the Poor Finance for Cities: Innovative Finance Solutions for (SURR Forum session), March 13, 2019 Climate-Smart Infrastructure – This report offers GPRBA presented the role RBF can play in MFD, innovative ideas for how cities and development focusing on how results-based financing can attract partners can use their limited public funds and private investors and unlock additional resources for direct policy decisions to leverage private sector development projects, while also ensuring that the investments. poorest communities benefit from these investments. • Considerations for Investment Returns and Pricing of Outcomes in Impact Bonds – This paper offers What if We Paid Against the Achievement of an initial framing of the challenge to set the terms Development Outcomes? The Case of Impact Bonds of investment and pricing, so that outcome payer (SURR Forum session), March 13, 2019 organizations can begin to address questions GPRBA presented the role impact bonds can play in regarding how to approach pricing outcomes in delivering basic social and environmental services to impact bonds. the poor. The session explained impact bonds, where • Impact Bonds and Maximizing Finance for they fit on the RBF spectrum, and the benefits of Development – This paper outlines the potential impact bonds vs. other types of interventions, relying contributions of impact bonds to the World Bank on examples that included the World Bank’s first social Group’s Maximizing Finance for Development impact bond (Uzbekistan Early Childhood Education). (MFD) approach. • “Maximizing Finance for Development” Papers – KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGES AND The MFD unit, in collaboration with GPRBA, EVENTS published project-specific briefs that document Partnerships and engagements with donors, and highlight the best examples of leveraging governments and other development partners is also 10 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Box 1. RBF Forum in Addis Ababa GPRBA and the World Bank organized a knowledge sharing event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 15–17, 2019 convening partners, clients and donors to the field in Ethiopia (where PforR projects are prominent) to get their perspective on RBF and see what’s on the pulse of other organizations in terms of RBF. About 90 attendees participated in the forum, including staff from across the World Bank Group, key players in results-based financing (from organizations such as SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), Enabel, the African Development Bank (AfdB), the European Commission, the Brookings Institution, Instiglio, and the Social Finance and the Education Outcomes Fund) representing major organizations from around the world; clients from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Myanmar; and local representatives from the donor community. Given GPRBA’s renewed strategic focus to provide greater flexibility in the financial instruments, getting this insight from others was critical. The agenda included deep dives into the different category of instruments such as PforR, Impact Bonds, Performance-based Contracts, and sectors and themes where RBF is prominent (energy, water and sanitation, health, education) and challenging (fragile situations and climate change). The event also included a site visit to Adama, Ethiopia, about 100km east of Addis Ababa. The project site presented results from a PforR project and served as a living laboratory for results-based financing. This half-day field visit to the Ethiopia Local Government Development Project II (a P4R GPRBA will continue to be important as a leader in operation) organized in collaboration with the Ethiopia Urban designing and testing new approaches in addition to being team gave good exposure to the participants on RBF financing a convener for knowledge—stay tuned for annual events to in a local government development context. continue the conversation. central to GPRBA’s role as a CoE. Some highlights jointly by the independent verification agent and the of this year’s collaborative engagements and global national utility. knowledge exchanges are detailed below. Burkina Faso/Cameroon Knowledge Exchange Sri Lanka/Timor-Leste Knowledge Exchange (August (November 12–14, 2018) – GPRBA arranged a study tour 28–31, 2018) – At the request of the Government of aimed at facilitating knowledge exchange and sharing Timor-Leste, GPRBA arranged a knowledge exchange of experiences between Cameroon and Burkina Faso, with Sri Lanka. The delegation included top Timorese on the topics of soil management and supplemental officials and experts who are expected to lead a irrigation for cotton farming. The knowledge exchange new IDA operation. An OBA component will be encompassed site visits and gathered participants incorporated into the IDA operation, modeling the from government-owned cotton processing and export project appraisal document (PAD) on the Ghana IDA companies, members of the National Confederation of PAD. The knowledge exchange visit was delivered Cotton Producers from both countries, and WBG staff. GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 11 The 4th High-Level Meeting on Country-Led CDD and Impact Bonds Seminar (June 18, 2019) – Knowledge Sharing (October 15–17, 2018) – GPRBA Together with the World Bank’s Community Driven- participated in the Fourth High-Level Meeting Development’s (CDD) Community of Practice, this (HLM4) on country-led knowledge sharing in Bali, event highlighted GPRBA’s Uzbekistan Early Childhood Indonesia, co-organized by the World Bank, the Islamic Education and two other World Bank projects, the West Development Bank, US Agency for International Bank & Gaza Finance for Jobs impact bonds, and the Development, the Federal Republic of Germany/ Women’s Livelihood Bond on women entrepreneurship in GIZ and the Japan International Cooperation rural India. Additionally, the seminar featured the Poverty Agency (JICA), to discuss and highlight opportunities Alleviation Outcomes Fund, which is one of the first to harness local innovation as a driver for global attempts to support impact bonds at scale. The speakers development. The Government of Indonesia’s Internal drew on their experience to explore opportunities for Audit Agency and verification agent for GPRBA’s using impact bonds in CDD operations. Local Government Development Project in Indonesia showcased outputs from GPRBA support, including a COMMUNICATIONS field visit to local innovation centers. Communication activities are complementary to GPRBA’s KML activities and focus on disseminating DFAT Workshop (October 23–25, 2018) – At the request curated knowledge through various media channels to of the Australian DFAT, GPRBA delivered technical reach audiences from the World Bank Group, donors, presentations to the Multilateral Development Division partners and practitioners. on the mechanisms (including blended finance and impact bond) and the potential of results-based Two of the main communication activities of FY19 financing, as well as on GPRBA’s work in the East Asia involved finalizing the rebranding and name change, and Pacific region. as well as using social media and online platforms to spread GPRBA’s messages and results more widely. Kenya National Electrification Strategy Conference (December 6–8, 2018) – This conference, held Our communication activities presented thematic feature in Nairobi, enhanced practical knowledge and stories and multimedia products about GPRBA’s funded capabilities for the design and implementation of projects. They were disseminated to our partners and robust electrification programs, drawing on the KSB through our newsletter, website, and social media. experiences of African and international practitioners. Highlighted topics included: blended finance, sanitation, GPRBA organized a workshop on “Informal Settlement impact bonds, climate change, education, and RBF. Electrification,” which presented the achievements of GPRBA also prepared social media toolkits to help the successful GPOBA/IDA-funded slum electrification partners leverage their own social media channels and program implemented by Kenya Power and Lighting presence to share our information. Company (KPLC) from 2012 to 2017. The multimedia products included videos about our Impact Bonds Working Group Meeting (February new name and mission and our knowledge exchanges, 26–27, 2019) – The 3rd Impact Bonds Working Group as well impact bond interviews, and a series on “What Meeting was held at the World Bank in collaboration does RBF Mean to You?”. For details, see Appendix with GPRBA. The working group’s objective is to design D. GPRBA will also ramp up its work on knowledge a strategy that will help members use impact bonds sharing through new channels that have now become and related pay-for-success instruments effectively at accessible. For instance, GPURL has a Twitter following scale and contribute to launching quality development of almost 50,000 and access to all World Bank handles projects. Sector-focused panels and round-table representing sectors and topics of GPRBA involvement. discussions focused on education, health, jobs and the Using these channels will multiply the dissemination environment. and online impact of GPRBA’s work. LOOKING AHEAD orking in complex and changing important as a leader in designing and testing new W environments requires greater flexibility in approaches. the financial instruments we use. Through a renewed strategic focus, more projects One of the exciting new developments for GPRBA has are being developed using not just OBA, but a blend been its integration into the new World Bank global of different RBF instruments, with the objective of practice, GPURL. Given both the pace of urbanization leveraging donor resources to maximize private- and the climate crisis, this global practice is at the sector financing. Our recent name change unleashes cutting edge of global developments. Through this new opportunities for creativity and flexibility in the integration, GPRBA will leverage its considerable program’s unwavering efforts to help the residents of experience in results-based approaches and innovative low-income communities lead better lives. financing to focus on new areas and issues. Some of the new thrust areas for GPRBA directly reflect GPRBA is seen as an integrator that helps address donor emphasized priorities—a greater attention to inclusive development by linking payments to gender and inclusion as well as fragility and forced investments that specifically target low-income displacement through both new knowledge and communities. GPRBA is also recognized as an technical assistance. Since the application of results- innovator that tests new mechanisms and expands into based approaches in these areas is still nascent, GPRBA new areas, such as impact bonds to leverage private will use its leadership to commission think pieces with resources for social outcomes, supporting the Bank’s operational relevance, so as to move into subsidy PforR agenda and developing its work on blended projects and impact bonds. In entering these new finance. As more players become experienced areas, GPRBA will be squarely within the scope of the and active in this area, GPRBA will continue to be SDGs and the campaign to “leave no one behind”. 13 APPENDICES 15 16 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 APPENDIX A FINANCIA L S TATEMENTS G PRBA derives its resources from donor Donor Contributions to GPRBA Table A.1.  contributions, which are channeled through (in $millions) trust funds administered by the World Donor Pledged Received Bank Group. The World Bank recovers an DFID 112.81 112.81 administrative fee for costs associated with this task. IFC 97.80 97.80 GPRBA’s budget and accounting processes are aligned DGIS 28.27 28.27 with the World Bank fiscal year, which runs from July to DFAT 37.49 37.49 June. SIDA 69.89 69.89 EU 1.80 1.80 CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED Total 348.06 348.06 As of June 30, 2019, GPRBA’s donors have pledged a total of $348.06 million to the program, of which all $348.06 million has been received (see Table A.1). In fiscal year 2019, GPRBA received $4.26 million from donors (see Table A.2). activities approved in prior years that are implemented over multiple years. Of the total disbursements this DISBURSEMENTS fiscal year, $25.5 million (88 percent) was related to GPRBA disbursements totaled $25.5 million in fiscal business development and project implementation. year 2019 (Table A.3). Disbursements were made for At $99,947, program management and administration activities approved in fiscal year 2019, as well as for represented less than 1 percent of total disbursements. Table A.2. Receipt of Donor Contributions by Fiscal Year (in $millions) FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 Total DFID 2.50 3.40 6.80 21.70 13.30 10.20 19.20 14.50 11.22 6.84 1.63 1.52 112.81 IFC 35.00 25.50 37.30 97.80 DGIS 11.00 8.00 9.27 28.27 DFAT 0.26 28.93 8.31 37.49 SIDA 6.90 8.90 2.20 20.80 3.04 15.68 2.21 5.90 4.26 69.89 EU 1.00 0.80 1.80 Total 2.50 3.40 41.80 32.96 53.70 49.40 28.10 54.00 19.53 28.44 4.67 17.20 2.21 5.90 4.26 348.06 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 17 Table A.3. Disbursements FY 2018 Actual expenses as of June 30, 2019 Uses of Funds W1/W2 W3 Prep/Sup W3 Subsidy PMU Total Program Management Unit — — $99,947 $99,947 (PMU) Administrative Cost Business Development/project $3,638,216 18,835,693 $22,473,908 implementation Technical Assistance and KM $2,923,226 $2,923,226 Total $2,923,226 $3,638,216 18,835,693 $99,947 $25,497,081 SINGLE AUDIT PROCESS The World Bank Group has instituted an annual activity is required to confirm that due diligence has ‘single audit’ exercise for all trust funds. As part of been exercised with respect to the administration, this exercise, the GPRBA Head signs a trust fund management, and monitoring of the funds awarded representation letter attesting to the correctness and for the activity, and has ensured that all expenses and completeness of the financial process for all GPRBA disbursements are made in accordance with World trust funds. The task manager for each approved Bank procurement and administrative guidelines. 18 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 APPENDIX B GPRB A PROJEC T S TABLE B.1. Ongoing Projects Planned Country Project Name Grant Amount Amount Disbursed Output Description Beneficiaries Energy Solomon Electricity Access Expansion $2,225,000 $297,676 Households with 14,620 Islands Project electricity connections and minigrid connections Zambia Electricity Service Access $3,000,000 $0 Increase electricity 115,000 Project access in rural areas Health Uganda Reproductive Health Voucher $13,300,000 $6,909,216 Safe deliveries 132,000 Program II – Scale Up Water and Sanitation Burkina Faso Supporting Small-Scale $5,850,000 $0 Increased Cotton 1,000 Cotton Farmers Production Kenya Urban Water and Sanitation $11,835,000 $3,562,108 Water and sanitation 150,000 OBA Fund for Low Income connections Areas Project Tanzania Accelerating Solar Water $4,500,000 $0 Increased access to 500,000 Pumping water in selected rural communities Totals $40,710,000 $10,769,000 912,620 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 19 TABLE B.2. Fully Implemented Projects Disbursed No. of Country Project Name Amount Output Description No. of Verified Outputs Beneficiaries Education Vietnam Vietnam Education Project $2,896,389 Tuition Packages 8,145 8,145 Energy Armenia Amenia Access to Heat/Gas $3,087,196 Households with access to 5,847 23,739 heating either through an individual connection or local boiler system Bangladesh Rural Electrification $13,950,000 Solar Home Systems 497,613 2,488,065 and Renewable Energy Development – SHS Project Bangladesh Rural Electrification $1,099,581 Mini grid and solar water 2,184 8,500 and Renewable Energy pumps Development – Mini Grid Project Bangladesh Scale-Up for Bangladesh $14,952,250 Solar home systems, 9,290 48,324 Rural Electrification minigrids, and solar and Renewable Energy irrigation pumps. Development Bolivia Bolivia Rural Electricity $5,152,403 Solar Home Systems and 11,755 60,815 Access with Small-Scale Pico-PV systems Providers Colombia Colombia Natural Gas $4,880,382 Households with gas 34,138 204,828 connections Ethiopia Ethiopia Electricity Access $451,290 Household electricity 60,000 300,000 Rural Expansion Project connections, including two compact fluorescent lamps Ghana Solar PV Systems to Increase $4,065,021 Solar Home Systems and 16,822 100,932 Access to Electricity Services solar lanterns in Ghana India Improved Electricity Access $40,901 Households with electricity 15 75 to Indian Slum Dwellers connections Kenya Kenya Electricity Expansion $5,150,000 Households with electricity 41,273 165,092 Project connections Kenya Kenya Electricity Expansion $3,000,000 Households with electricity 54,000 216,000 Project-Additional Financing connections (KEEP-AF) Liberia Liberia Electrification $9,983,743 Households with electricity 16,739 83,695 connections Mali Rural Electrification Hybrid $4,558,352 Households with electricity 13,509 146,347 System connections and solar home systems Nepal Biogas Support Programme $4,974,979 Biogas plants for rural 26,363 184,541 in Nepal households Philippines Access to Sustainable Energy $2,892,589 Solar home systems 7,000 35,000 Project – PV Mainstreaming (continued on next page) 20 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 TABLE B.2. Fully Implemented Projects (continued) Disbursed No. of Country Project Name Amount Output Description No. of Verified Outputs Beneficiaries Uganda Energy for Rural $5,499,179 Households with electricity 36,864 184,320 Transformation Project connections Vanuatu Improved Electricity Access $1,493,847 Households with electricity 2,187 10,716 connections Zambia Electricity Access for low $4,950,000 Households with electricity 38,000 140,000 income households in Zambia connections Health Lesotho Lesotho New Hospital PPP $6,250,000 Inpatient services at the 808,739 808,739 new Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital and outpatient services at three semi-urban filter clinics Nigeria Pre-paid Health Scheme $4,128,973 Medical Services 13,473 13,473 Pilot in Nigeria Philippines Philippines Reproductive $2,001,146 Enrollments and vouchers 99,319 453,440 Health for safe deliveries Uganda Reproductive Health $4,046,688 Safe deliveries and 97,248 162,838 Vouchers in Western Uganda treatments of sexually transmitted diseases Yemen Yemen Safe Motherhood $3,555,225 Enrollments 16,878 33,756 Program Telecommunications Indonesia Extending $1,516,534 Internet locations 222 476,000 Telecommunications in Rural Indonesia Mongolia Mongolia Univ Access to Tele $257,335 1 public access telephone 3 22,315 network and 2 wireless networks Water and Sanitation Bangladesh OBA Sanitation Microfinance $2,886,527 Hygienic latrines 170,679 776,590 Program Cameroon Cameroon Water Affermage $1,816,259 Households with water 25,254 151,524 contract – OBA for coverage connections expansion Ghana Urban Sanitation Facility for $4,850,000 Toilet facilities 7,685 47,190 Greater Accra Honduras National OBA Facility for $4,536,847 Households with 14,600 87,600 Water and Sanitation water and sanitation Services connections India India Naandi Foundation $834,276 Ultraviolet water 25 77,878 purification systems providing access to clean water (continued on next page) GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 21 TABLE B.2. Fully Implemented Projects (continued) Disbursed No. of Country Project Name Amount Output Description No. of Verified Outputs Beneficiaries Indonesia Expanding Piped Water $1,084,391 Households with water 13,473 67,815 Supply to Surabaya’s Urban connections and Master Poor meters Indonesia Expansion of Water Services $1,743,902 Households with water 5,042 25,210 in Low income areas of connections Jakarta Kenya Microfinance for Community- $2,597,119 Households with water 17,500 202,000 managed Water Projects connections and Water Kiosks Kenya Nairobi Sanitation Project $4,912,726 Water and sanitation 7,683 84,940 connections Morocco Improved Access to Water $6,999,766 Households with 12,426 62,130 and Sanitation Services water and sanitation Project connections Mozambique Water Private Sector $4,768,183 Households with water 30,764 163,357 Contracts OBA for coverage connections expansion in Mozambique Philippines Improved Access to Water $2,063,573 Households with water 28,562 171,372 Services in Metro Manila connections Senegal On-Site Sanitation Project $5,099,544 Households benefitting 11,495 103,455 from increased access to new sanitation facilities Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sanitation $4,894,840 Sewerage connections 4,791 48,445 and on-site sanitation services Uganda OBA in Kampala – Water $1,509,455 Water yard taps, public 7,524 129,900 Connections for the Poor water points Uganda OBA in Water Supply in $2,414,031 Water yard taps and 2,416 54,486 Uganda’s Small Towns and Public Water Points. Rural Growth Centers Vietnam Vietnam Rural Water (EMW) $4,499,967 Households with water 35,344 176,720 connections Solid Waste Management Nepal Nepal Solid Waste $3,364,616 Improved SWM services 500,000 500,000 Management West Bank West Bank Solid Waste $8,256,623 Improved SWM services 840,000 840,000 Management Total $183,966,647 $10,150,307 22 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 APPENDIX C GPRB A TEC H N IC AL AS S IS T AN C E AN D KNOW LEDGE AC T IVIT IES TABLE C.1. Ongoing TA and Dissemination Projects Total Grant Activity Name Objective Sector Amount ($) Colombia: Technical Support the Government of Colombia in the design and implementation of the Urban 200,000 Assistance for recently created National Home Improvement Subsidy Program’s Casa Digna, Development Improving Housing Casa Vida. This activity supports the identification of low-income households in Resilience urban areas that are currently marginalized from traditional housing programs to build housing that is more resilient to disasters and climate change. Ghana: Clean Prepare and pilot a results-based program to incentivize the private sector’s Energy 250,000 Cooking growth to innovate, invest in and transform the market for clean cookstoves in Ghana. Global: GPRBA Assess current practices in order to identify strategies and develop tools for Global 300,000 Gender Strategy reducing gender gaps in GPRBA operations. and Toolkit Global: PPP in Land Explore the World Bank’s maximizing financing for development (MFD) approach Urban 450,000 Administration to land-administration services, with an added emphasis on creating affordable Development services for the poor. This activity comprises: an analytical framework; an operational framework; country-level feasibility studies for up to three countries; consultations to facilitate dialogue between public and private-sector participants and obtain their feedback; and the exploration of RBF approaches for PPPs in land administration. India: Kerala Urban Identify key policy, regulatory, institutional, financial and technical/capacity Urban 150,000 Service Delivery challenges that are hindering the delivery of solid and liquid waste-management Development Project services in selected cities in Kerala and support the design of a results-based framework and institutional capacity-development program for such services. The framework will be used for about $130 million worth of capital investments, as part of the World Bank’s Kerala Urban Service Delivery Project (KUSDP). Status: Under preparation. Indonesia: Analyze the market and develop a results-based and blended financing Housing 230,000 Results-Based and (RBBF) scheme that will improve access to affordable and resilient housing Blended Finance for lower-income households in Indonesia. The activity will ensure that such for Low Income financing will complement existing World Bank Group initiatives, such as the Housing National Affordable Housing Program. Indonesia: Technical Scale up and expand the use of output verification in Indonesia’s housing, Multi-sector 230,000 Assistance education and health sectors. Initially piloted in four infrastructure sub-sectors— for Improving irrigation, roads, sanitation, and water—the government of Indonesia is one Infrastructure of the first to innovative results-based design principles on a large scale to Accountability target improvements in inter-governmental fiscal transfers. The activity aims to facilitate the institutionalization of the verification system and principles within the government, in order to increase the sustainability of the system and improve project performance measurements. (continued on next page) GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 23 TABLE C.1. Ongoing TA and Dissemination Projects (continued) Total Grant Activity Name Objective Sector Amount ($) Indonesia: Technical Support the incorporation of RBF into the Bantuan Stimulan Perumahan Urban 250,000 Assistance Towards Swadaya (BSPS) program’s framework and subsidy-delivery mechanism, to Development Results-Based improve the quality of BSPS housing (e.g., livability, disaster resilience, access to Home Improvement services, etc.) and accountability. Program Liberia: Integrated Design pragmatic, cost-effective, integrated and multi-sector service-delivery Urban 500,000 Services for the interventions that can be implemented through results-based financing. These Development Urban Poor interventions are expected to be piloted through public-private partnerships (PPPs) and to be financed via a future GPOBA request for $15 million that will be used to integrate lessons from GPOBA grants as well as International Development Association (IDA) projects in the country. The pilot projects will inform IDA’s pipeline across sectors in Liberia, as well as other fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) countries in West Africa. Mozambique: RBF Support the government of Mozambique in the prevention of gender-based Social 150,000 for Gender Based violence (GBV) and response, using RBF. The activities include: (i) identification Development Violence of entry points for RBF for GBV at the local level; (ii) preparation of case studies focused on key provinces with higher levels of GBV and/or where the World Bank currently has a larger portfolio; and (iii) development of a toolkit describing how to operationalize RBF for GBV-prevention programs. This should help the government of Mozambique to integrate RBF financing for GBV in ongoing projects. Myanmar: RBF for Support a comprehensive analysis of low-income urban settlements, land Land 150,000 Urban Upgrading administration, and the supply of affordable housing in key urban areas of Administration and Affordable Myanmar, to develop policy and investment priorities that could be implemented Housing through results-based financing, to improve living conditions for residents of low-income settlements and increase the supply of affordable housing. Nepal: Municipal Conduct a deep-dive assessment of municipal solid-waste (MSW) systems for Solid Waste 180,000 Solid Waste urban local governments, including identifying opportunities for establishing Management Management results-based approaches in Nepal. The activity will support the Nepal Urban Services for Urban Governance and Infrastructure Project (NUGIP), a $150-million lending program. Local Governments It builds on the success of previous GPRBA support to Nepal’s MSW sector through RBF and seeks to expand the scope of the GPOBA model, taking a comprehensive end-to-end service delivery approach that will also address institutional barriers at the local level. Pakistan: Support the development of a results-based performance-grant framework to Urban 200,000 Results-Based improve the Karachi metropolitan area’s institutional capacity for the delivery Development Financing for of critical municipal services; also support city-wide strategic investments in Municipal Services integrated storm-water drainage and municipal solid-waste management in Karachi (SWM). These are components of the World Bank-financed Karachi Urban Management Project (KUMP). Zambia: Clean Provide TA for i) a pilot project that will demonstrate cleaner cooking options Energy 250,000 Cooking in schools and to school families and ii) a gender assessment to ensure the effective communication of the benefits and risks of cleaner cooking to women and children. 24 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 APPENDIX D GPRB A COMMUN IC AT ION S PR ODUC TS Table D.1. GPRBA Communication Products in FY19 Activity Description Animated Video To help audiences understand the rationale behind changing our name, a two- minute animated video was produced to announce and explain the rebranding of the GPOBA to the GPRBA, as well as to provide a brief overview of the group’s mission and context. http://www.gprba.org/ knowledge/multimedia/introducing-gprba Helping Farmers Combat Climate In this video, a cotton farmer explains his relief and optimism for more stable production yields Change (Burkina Faso) and increased income from GPRBA’s first irrigation project, intended to stave off the effects of drought and excess rainfall. Shooting took place during a field visit at the Burkina Faso- Cameroon South-South Knowledge Exchange. New Approaches for Urban This video summarizes different types of sanitation solutions in different contexts, using RBF. The Sanitation in Sri Lanka backdrop for this production was the Sri Lanka-Timor Leste South-South Knowledge Exchange. Impact Bond Interviews The 2nd Annual Impact Bond Working Group meeting held at the World Bank provided us with the opportunity to interview representatives from UBS Optimus Foundation, Enabel and SECO, to produce the following three short videos on the use of this form of RBF: • UBS Optimus Foundation Talks Impact Bonds; • Enabel Talks Impact Bonds; and • SECO Talks Impact Bonds. What Does RBF Mean to You? A series of 6 videos recorded at the RBF Forum 2019 provide insight into the value of RBF, as explained by the following practitioners: • Namawu Alhassan Alolo, Country Program Officer, African Development Bank (AfDB); • Bernard Olayo, Sr. Health Specialist, IFC; • Anne Mutta, Multi Country Program Manager, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation; • Max Bode, Associate Partner, Instiglio; • Ismail Shaiye, CEO, Water Sector Trust Fund; and • Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Fellow, Center for Universal Education, Brookings GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 25 Table D.2. GPRBA Feature Stories in FY19 Communication Items Description Type MFD Blended Finance and New This newsletter highlighted how GPRBA work on blended finance can be used July 2019 GPOBA Website as an RBF tool to unlock additional resources for development projects while Newsletter ensuring that low-income communities benefit from these investments. RBF Guidebook and Annual This story (“New Diagnostic Tool for Results-based Financing”) highlighted the October 2019 Report 2018 publication of a report detailing the different types of RBF, based on a workshop Newsletter organized by Instiglio for GPRBA; the publication was timely, given the transition into newer forms of RBF. RBF in Sanitation and World To demonstrate GPRBA’s efforts to provide improved sanitation services during November 2019 Toilet Day the month of World Toilet Day, this story (“Filling the Global Sanitation Finance Newsletter Gap”) showed how results-based financing is one way to improve communities’ lifestyles with toilet access. Announcing Our New Name: Through this news item (“Changing our Name, expanding our Mission”), we February 2019 GPRBA announced our transition from GPOBA to GPRBA, explaining our shift to look Newsletter beyond output-based aid and to apply other types of results-based financing. Impact Bonds - RBF for the The “What If We Paid for Outcomes?” story coincided with the second meeting March 2019 Social Good of the Impact Bonds Working Group, hosted and co-organized by GPRBA at the Newsletter World Bank. RBF in the Climate Change The publication of GPRBA’s report on RBF for climate-friendly investments for April 2019 Agenda urban areas was the basis for this story (“Delivering Results for Low-Carbon and Newsletter Climate-Resilient Cities”). “Zambia Electricity Scale-up This announced the May 1st Grant Agreement to extend a highly successful and Press Release for Rural Areas” overperforming project that brought electricity access to urban and peri-urban areas, so that rural areas now receive connections to the grid. “Uzbekistan Children’s Education” This announced the signing of the first impact bond supported by GPRBA to Press Release provide education to primary school children in Uzbekistan. (need to delete if Uzbek project is not ready) Helping Farmers Combat Climate A cotton farmer explains his relief and optimism for more stable production Video Change (Burkina Faso) yields and increased income from GPRBA’s first irrigation project. New Approaches for Urban This video summarizes the different types of sanitation solutions in different Video Sanitation in Sri Lanka contexts, using RBF. Impact Bond Interviews Three short videos were filmed at the 2nd Annual Impact Bond Working Group Video meeting held at the World Bank, featuring representatives from UBS Optimus Foundation, Enabel and SECO. What Does RBF Mean to You? A series of videos were recorded at the RBF Forum 2019 to provide insight into Video the value of RBF, as explained by several practitioners. Key Takeaways from RBF This is a compilation of several attendees’ thoughts on their experiences and Video Forum 2019 takeaways from this GPRBA-organized conference. 26 GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 APPENDIX E GPRB A TEAM Maitreyi Das Practice Manager Zaruhi Tokhmakhyan Acting Head/Senior Infrastructure Specialist Inga Afanasieva Infrastructure Specialist Sylvestre Bea Infrastructure Specialist Oxana Bricha Senior Program Assistant Amsale Bumbaugh Operations Analyst Daniel Coila Operations Analyst Raluca Golumbeanu Senior Infrastructure Specialist Saúl E. González Senior Knowledge Management Assistant Oleh P. Khalayim Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Hywon Cha Kim Senior Knowledge Management Officer Charis Lypiridis Infrastructure Specialist Jessica A. Lopez Operations Officer Juliet Pumpuni Senior Infrastructure Specialist Dilshod B. Yusupov Operations Analyst GPRBA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 27 Credit: World Bank. 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