Output-based aid for delivering WASH services in Vietnam: ensuring sustainability and reaching the poor

Output-Based Aid is now being increasingly used and is recognized as one of the key financing mechanisms to expand targeted access to basic services for the poor and ensure sustainability. Since 2007, East Meets West (EMW), an international non-governmental organization (INGO) headquartered in USA, has been scaling up the OBA approach in the WASH sector in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. This briefing paper is to examine the lessons learned from the implementation of this output-based rural water supply, sanitation, and hygiene programs in Vietnam, the first of its kind in the country.