Evidence review: Results-based payments

Overview

Results-based payments (also known as performance-based aid, performance-based contracts, impact investments or conditional transfers) provide funding conditional on actions undertaken by target beneficiaries (which are sometimes verified by third parties). This evidence review will focus on results-based payment interventions at national to community scales in desired outcome areas globally.

The evidence gap map and intervention heat map will answer the following questions:

What is the extent of the evidence base on the effectiveness of results-based payment interventions?
Where has the GCF allocated project finance to date within the intervention/outcome framework developed for the evidence gap maps?

The systematic review will answer the following questions:

To what extent have results-based payment interventions been effective at achieving change in desired outcome areas at the micro, meso and macro scales?
How can these interventions be clustered most effectively to allow aggregation and meta-analysis?
To what extent have the form of the financial instrument and/or the institutional architecture determined significant change within groups of interventions?

Key documents

Results-based payments Approach Paper
Results-based payments Brief
Learning paper: Evidence gap map and intervention heat map
Synthesis brief: Evidence review on Results-based payments in the context of climate change