rp21 situational analysis - Pacific Health Voices

the program of work, Australian advisers are
deployed to work with government, including
personnel from the Australian Government
Department of Finance and the Australian
Federal Police (AFP). The AFP provided the
Director of Police and a special police adviser
in 2005 to work with local police to address
prosecution backlogs and undertake skills
building. Australian programs have also supported
health sector planning and management
improvements since 2006. 434
Australian non-government
organisations
A search of the Australian Council for International
Development website provided no
evidence of international NGOs working
in Nauru.
7.7 International
involvement
The monetary donor aid flows to Nauru
are estimated to total approximately 46 per
cent of its 2007–08 budget revenues. Apart
from Australia, other major donors include
Taiwan (AU$4.4 million) and New Zealand
(AU$1.4 million). Other donor partners include:
the Secretariat of the Pacific Community,
Japan, the European Union, India,
the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, United
Nations Development Programme, South Pacific
Applied Geoscience Commission, South
Pacific Tourism Organisation, Forum Fisheries
Agency, the United Nations FAO and WHO,
Cuba, Venezuela, Italy, Israel, Brazil, Singapore,
South Korea, the Czech Republic and
the United States. 435
For some time, ties with Taiwan were suspended
in favour of a relationship with the
People’s Republic of China on the promise
of US$130 million in aid, but this position
was reversed in 2005. 436 Nauru has a troubled
relationship with the Asian Development Bank,
joining in 1991 but having loans suspended
due to non-compliance with associated conditions
in 2003. The loan program was restarted
with the election of a new government in late
2004, but as of 2007, outstanding repayments
remained. The ADB program supports
the National Sustainable Development
Strategy development and implementation of
priorities. 437
93
434 Ibid.
435 Republic of Nauru and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (2007), Joint Country Strategy
2008–2010, September 2007. Available at: .
436 Above, fn.418.
437 Asian Development Bank and Nauru: fact sheet. Available at: (accessed May 2009).
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