Vanuatu assistance

It will also boost its financial support for the nation’s priorities and increase collaboration with development partners.

On her first visit to Vanuatu, Victoria Kwakwa, World Bank Vice President for East Asia and Pacific, signed an agreement with Vanuatu’s Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Jotham Napat, to lay a path for stronger relations between Vanuatu and the World Bank.

The assistance is a top-up to the 31 million Euros that Brussels had approved in 2014 in its national indicative programme for Vanuatu that will cover the period from 2014 to 2020.

The visiting EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, told a press conference at the National Convention Centre in Port Vila today that 25 million Euros from the 31 million earmarked for this interactive programme in Vanuatu will be channeled to rural development and sustainable agriculture.