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Country Assistance Plans - Republic of the Fiji Islands

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VII. Asian Development Bank’s Operational Program

38. Given the above operational strategy and operational framework, it is proposed that firstly, the ADB continue to program and to prioritize sector-based infrastructure projects of approximately one per year and to continue to provide approximately $3 million TA per annum. Secondly, it is proposed that the ADB provide priority TA to the central Ministries of Finance, National Planning and the Office of the Prime Minister to strengthen public sector policy management and implementation. The lending pipeline retains the loan in the year 2000 for water supply and sewerage systems estimated at $30 million (PPTA consultants have been fielded). A loan in 2001 for road rehabilitation is estimated at $25 million, and a loan is included in 2002 for urban sector development (the nature and scope of this proposal will be defined on the basis of the 1999 Urban Sector Strategy Study TA). A loan for the rehabilitation of the sugar sector has also been tentatively included for the year 2000 for $10 million. All loans are on OCR terms.

39. The TA program includes PPTAs in support of sugar industry rehabilitation (1999), further road rehabilitation and urban sector development (2000). Advisory TAs have been identified in support of improved public sector asset, debt, and overall financial management, improved economic policy formulation, further public enterprise reform, further assistance to the financial sector, assistance to restructuring the sugar industry, improving environmental management, vocational education, improving the investment regulatory environment, targeting public investments in support of major private tourism developments, and helping to implement the Women’s Plan of Action. The ADB’s proposed lending pipeline and the technical assistance program for the period 2000-2002 are summarized in Table 1.

40. Government came in to office in May 1999 and it is still very early for it to fully establish, and to start to implement its own policies and programs. The ADB’s program was reviewed and revised with the new Government in June 1999. Further revisions can be expected. While the program remains very tentative at this stage, it will likely become more firm in 2000.

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