Pacific Impact Stories
Over the last 4 decades, the ADB has been helping its Pacific developing member countries overcome common challenges in delivering sustained economic growth and human development, and in reducing poverty from small, narrowly focused economies. Read Pacific Impact Stories to find out more about how ADB assistance is changing lives of Pacific people in, Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste.
- Efficient Ports Upgrade Supports Growth in Fiji
Following help from ADB via the Fiji Ports Development Project, the Fiji Islands’ main ports in Suva and Lautoka are now models of efficiency. Not only did the project finish on time, within budget, and showcase some specialized engineering features, it also included a climate-adaptation component that guards against earthquakes and tsunamis.
- Freedom at the Frontier
Improved feeder roads in the highlands of Papua New Guinea are reducing the isolation of tribal communities in a valley that was hidden from the world until a few decades ago. Better access to markets, schools, and hospitals are giving subsistence farmers greater freedom of choice.
- Helping Build an Efficient Public Service
Building an efficient public service is among the many challenges faced by one of the world's newest and least developed nations—Timor-Leste. A partnership between the Government and ADB has resulted in a series of training programs that have boosted the efficiency of the public service.
- Lighthouses Boost Fishing as well as Shipping
A national program to renovate navigational aids is guiding big and small ships through Papua New Guinea's largely uncharted and often unsafe waters. In Milne Bay, these beacons are also boosting night fishing, trade, and local shipping.
- Models of Efficiency
With help from the ADB, the Fiji Islands' main ports in Suva and Lautoka are now models of efficiency. Not only did the project finish on time, within budget, and showcase engineering best practices, it also included a climate change-adaptation component that guards against earthquakes and tsunamis.
- New Condom Campaign to Combat HIV/AIDS
A well-researched $10 million program to distribute millions of subsidized condoms in "hot spots" of sexual activity in Papua New Guinea aims to control an HIV/AIDS epidemic.
- Not Just Another Road Project
ADB is partnering with the Government of Timor-Leste and the nongovernment organization CARE Australia on a road project that is empowering
communities and generating jobs. It is a new approach that may pave the way for better road projects in Timor-Leste in the future.
- On The Same Track
ADB and its development partners discuss their joint response to restoring roads and bridges in the Solomon Islands through the eyes of the almost complete Post Conflict Emergency Rehabilitation Project.
- Restoring the Reef
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) under an ADB project have mobilized shoreline villages in Papua New Guinea to take charge of protecting their marine resources. By trading short-term pain for long-term gain, these villages are beginning to reverse the tide of overexploitation.
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