Samoa is well advanced in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Poverty has fallen faster than the targeted rate, universal primary education has almost been achieved, gender disparity in primary and secondary education has been eliminated, and child and maternal mortality has been reduced. The country is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of environmental sustainability.

ADB's country operations business plan (COBP), 2013-2015, for Samoa is targeting improvement of growth prospects and living standards, especially for disadvantaged members of the community, and is closely aligned with the Strategy for the Development of Samoa, 2012-2016.