ADB’s support to Palau focuses on renewable energy and energy security, urban planning and management, water and sanitation, public financial management, and private sector development.
The collective efforts and resilience of Pacific Island communities in the face of climate change highlight the importance of international support and sustainable infrastructure to combat environmental challenges.
Palau is a small island developing state in the northern Pacific. It is exceptionally vulnerable to natural hazards, and its narrow economy exposes it to international market volatility.
These charts illustrate the need for Pacific countries to expand local livelihood opportunities while balancing between sustaining remittance flows and addressing local labor shortages.
This report provides an overview of the strategic context, activities, and deliverables of the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) in 2022.
The Pacific Approach, 2021-2025 of ADB serves as the country partnership strategy for Palau, and focuses on building resilience against economic shocks, delivering sustainable services, and promoting inclusive and sustainable growth. It introduces new priorities for a programmatic approach to climate change, longer-term capacity support, procurement flexibilities, and an emphasis on gender equality. Recognizing the need for capacity support to complement physical infrastructure, ADB is helping improve utility and public sector performance alongside infrastructure works.
6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, 1550 Metro Manila, Philippines
Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Monday to Friday)
Palau Pacific Country Office
Room 209, 2nd Floor, RTFT Building
Koror, Palau 96940
The ADB Pacific Department provides the primary operational link for activities between ADB and the government, the private sector, civil society stakeholders, and development partners. The Pacific Department engages in policy dialogue, country partnership strategy development and programming, and portfolio management, while also acting as a knowledge base on development issues in Palau.