TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kumar,Geeta
AU  - Kumar,Geeta
AU  - Lieberman,Ira
AU  - Mumssen,Yogita
TI  - Access to Finance in Output-Based Aid
T2  - Other papers
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Access to Finance
KW  - Accountability
KW  - Affordability
KW  - Capacity Building
KW  - Capital Costs
KW  - Capital Expenditures
KW  - Capital Requirements
KW  - Collateral
KW  - Commercial Banks
KW  - Communications Technology
KW  - Cooperatives
KW  - Debt
KW  - Developing Countries
KW  - Development Economics & Aid Effectiveness
KW  - Economic Development
KW  - Expenditures
KW  - Finance and Financial Sector Development
KW  - Financial Crisis
KW  - Financial Institutions
KW  - Governance
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - Household Income
KW  - Immunizations
KW  - Interest Rates
KW  - International Finance
KW  - International Financial Institutions
KW  - International Governmental Organizations
KW  - Letters of Credit
KW  - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
KW  - Microfinance Institutions
KW  - Microinsurance
KW  - Savings
KW  - Small Businesses
KW  - Technical Assistance
KW  - Trade Finance
KW  - Transparency
KW  - Transport
KW  - Urban Development
KW  - User Fees
KW  - Villages
KW  - Water Supply
N2  - Output-Based Aid (OBA) and other results-based financing mechanisms are gaining popularity in the development context for many reasons, in particular, the desire to link scarce public funding with actual results on the ground. But withholding disbursements until the delivery of 'results' or 'outputs' requires that the service providers delivering the results must have access to finance (A2F) to pay for the 'inputs' in the first place. Such finance is not always available or affordable. The purpose of this working paper is to outline some of the key issues related to OBA and A2F. The analysis focuses on the energy, water, and health sectors. Micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) financing is the main topic; however, OBA is ultimately about poor households affording access to basic services, and many OBA schemes attempt to address A2F for households, so some of these innovations are also described. The working paper is expected to support a consultative process between experts dealing with A2F challenges and experts on OBA. This process should help raise awareness of the OBA approach among potential financiers, and help consider solutions (instruments, partnerships, capacity building) so that OBA and other similar results-based financing mechanisms can be brought to scale and integrated into broader sector policy, where appropriate
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/27816
ER  -