Development assistance in Fiji
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2024-25 bilateral allocation [budget estimate]
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$54.0 million
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2024-25 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]
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$123.1 million
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2023-24 bilateral allocation [budget estimate]
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$44.0 million
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2023-24 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]
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$88.1 million
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2022-23 total Australian ODA [actual]
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$149.3 million
Australia also provides budget support to Fiji which will be included in actual figures published in the relevant Australia’s Official Development Assistance: Statistical Summary.
We are working with Fiji to design the new Fiji Development Partnership Plan (DPP) in 2024, which will replace the existing COVID-19 Development Response Plan. Sitting under the Fiji-Australia Vuvale Partnership, the DPP will set out our shared development priorities in line with the International Development Policy. Australia’s International Development Policy presents a long-term vision for how our development program will meet the critical needs of our partners, while also supporting Australia's national interests and the interests we share with our region. The Fiji DPP is being developed in consultation with government and non-government stakeholders in Fiji and Australia.
Stability
As a key Pacific economy and a regional hub, Fiji’s stability is of great importance to the region and Australia. Australia’s support has focussed on strengthening Government of Fiji’s national policies and institutions, including the national social protection system, gender equality, education and the Fijian public service. Australia’s governance program is supporting productive peer-to-peer partnerships with key institutions, including Parliament, news media, and the Fijian Elections Office.
Further information on programs addressing stability in Fiji.
Economic recovery
We are contributing to Fiji’s efforts to maintain fiscal sustainability through targeted budget support to help the Government of Fiji shore up its fiscal position and bolster economic recovery from the pandemic. Australia’s budget support during and after the pandemic enabled Fiji to maintain expenditure in key areas like health and social protection, and strengthened Fiji’s fiscal position and debt profile, better positioning Fiji’s economy for recovery. Separately, our private sector investments, including through the Market Development Facility and the Australia-International Finance Corporation Partnership, were reoriented to find opportunities for the tourism sector to rebound, while economic growth programs began exploring economic diversification opportunities. We are assisting Fiji to improve efficiency of service delivery and promote broad-based, private sector-led economic growth.
Further information on programs addressing economic recovery in Fiji.
Health security
Australia is Fiji’s largest public health partner and is responding to Fiji’s most acute health priorities. Our support builds institutional capacity, strengthens the health system, helps improve patient care (especially maternal, new-born and child health), improves water, sanitation and hygiene, and has supplied critical vaccines.
From 2020 to 2023, Australia provided $16.9 million to strengthen vaccine access in Fiji, including supporting the procurement and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines. In 2021, Australia also deployed three Australian Medical Assistance Teams with embedded New Zealand health specialists to support Fiji's emergency health response to COVID-19.
Further information on programs addressing health security in Fiji.
Fiji Program Support Facility
Up to $176.5 million, 2017-25
The Fiji Program Support Facility (the Facility) was established in 2017 to support Australia's delivery of education, health, governance and scholarship programs in Fiji. Over the past five years, working in close partnership with the Government of Fiji the Facility has implemented almost half of the Australian Government's bilateral aid program to Fiji. The Facility integrates civil society engagement, gender equality, disability inclusion, emergency preparedness and response, and climate change across the programs it implements.
The Facility promotes coherence across programs and provides an overarching structure through which the Government of Australia can coordinate its development relationship with the governments of Fiji.