2024-25 bilateral allocation [budget estimate]

$29.0 million

2024-25 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]

$51.8 million

2023-24 bilateral allocation [budget estimate]

$29.0 million

2023-24 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]

$53.5 million

2022-23 total Australian ODA [actual]

$60.3 million

Australia's Official Development Assistance: Statistical Summary provides further details on ODA actuals and estimates, including funding from non-ongoing COVID-19 response and other regional measures.

Australia is Samoa’s largest bilateral development partner, with our enduring commitment to establish, long-term, locally led programs, designed to directly respond to Samoan’s development priorities.

Our development cooperation is centred on listening, respect and genuine partnership, and advances our shared vision in the 2050 Blue Pacific Strategy of a peaceful, prosperous, and resilient region. Australia is committed to supporting Samoa to deliver on its Pathway for the Development of Samoa, and to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. Our development assistance focuses on: human development; economic governance; budget support; scholarships and infrastructure.

We are currently designing the new Samoa-Australia Development Partnership Plan (DPP) to set out our development priorities for 2024-30 in line with Australia’s new International Development Policy. The Samoa DPP aims to translate into action the development priorities Australia shares with Samoa going forward. It will set out agreed objectives, how we will work together to deliver shared outcomes, and how progress will be monitored. The DPP will replace the COVID-19 Response Plan developed in 2020.