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Annual Report 2003 : Moving the Poverty Reduction Agenda Forward: Priorities and Outcomes : The Pacific

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Samoa

Strategy and Policy Dialogue. The strategy aimed to improve (i) the enabling environment for private sector growth and job creation, (ii) access to and delivery of basic social services by providing infrastructure and enhancing management and performance of relevant public sector institutions, and (iii) equity of and access to quality education.

The strategy reflected the most common aspirations of vulnerable and disadvantaged communities based on ADB’s participatory poverty surveys—employment, quality of and access to basic social services and education, and access to finance and land.

Policy dialogue focused on private sector participation in public service delivery and the implementation of the new legislative framework for stateowned enterprises. It also included dialogue on the policy and legislative environment for business development, specifically on legal impediments to the economic use of customary land, improving debt recovery mechanisms, and facilitating secured transactions.

In September 2003, ADB signed a PPA with the Government.

Loans and Technical Assistance.
ADB approved one loan amounting to $8.0 million to improve the sanitation and drainage systems of the capital, Apia. Four technical assistance projects totaling $1.7 million were also approved.

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