This PPP case demonstrates how OBA became an important factor attracting reputable sanitary-landfill operators to the bidding where in a conflict and fragility situation the Palestinian Authorities obtained a World Bank loan for its first sanitary landfill and engaged IFC advice on the PPP structuring. GPOBA grant helped to set up waste collection and to encourage cleanliness verification in the poorest municipalities of Bethlehem and Hebron.

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Output-based aid (OBA) is a results-based financing mechanism that ties the disbursement of funds to the achievement of specified outputs. This note examines the design of two projects—in Nepal and the West Bank—that use an OBA approach to SWM.

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• PPPs for the Poor
• Further Reading

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Purpose and structure of the Report

This is Volume 1 of the Report which is the product of a FEMIP (Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership) Trust Fund Study analysing the legal and financial frameworks for Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in each of the Mediterranean partner countries. The definition of PPP for the purposes of the Report is a partnership between the public and private sectors pursuant to a long term contractual agreement and covering the design, construction, financing and ongoing operation and maintenance of an infrastructure asset.

Over the last decades, West Bank and Gaza have suffered due to political and economic instabilit, resulting in years of inadequate infrastructure investment and poor provision of public services to the people of Palestine. The provision of standard municipal public services, especially solid waste management, was of particular concern. In response, the World Bank Group provided an integrated solution to the client, the Joint Services Coun- cil for Hebron and Bethlehem (JSC-H&B), leading to the successful conclusion of the first public-private partnership (PPP) in the West Bank.

The NDP is structured along the lines of four key sectors: Economic Development and Employment, Good Governance and Institution Building, Social Protection and Development, and Infrastructure. It is informed by performance evaluations and lessons learned from earlier plans, providing a structured framework to monitor and evaluate effective and efficient policy implementation and public sector management.

The objective of this study is to assess and promote the prospects for successful PPP programmes in the Mediterranean partner countries.

IFC Public-Private Partnership Stories

West Bank & Gaza: Solid Waste Management

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