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Australian aid is also supporting curriculum reform, upgrading school facilities and enhancing teacher training. For example, in 2009, 12 new or upgraded classrooms were provided to primary schools across Vanuatu. Australian aid is directed to improve the health of people across Vanuatu, including by reducing the impact of malaria. It is hoped that by 2014, malaria will be eliminated in Tafea Province, which is a key tourist destination and agricultural centre. Australia helps address a shortfall of skilled medical personnel through the provision of a physician, obstetrician-gynaecologist, surgeon and anaesthetist. Each of these specialists helps ensure that Vila Central Hospital, Vanuatu’s main hospital, retains its international teaching hospital status so that Ni-Vanuatu medical students can return to Vanuatu to complete their training rather than having to study overseas. The obstetriciangynaecologist has attended over 1,100 live births with no maternal or infant deaths from birthing complications. AusAID pays for the surgeon to travel to rural communities with a Ni-Vanuatu counterpart to provide surgical services that would not otherwise be available. Australia is also working to address a major nursing shortage by doubling the 2009-2010 nursing student intakes while maintaining quality educational standards. New Zealand New Zealand’s total bilateral assistance to Vanuatu in 2009-2010 was NZ$18 million and is projected to rise to $19 million in 2010-2011. NZAID and the Vanuatu Government have identified education governance and economic development as priority areas in the Vanuatu Country Strategy 2006-2010. In relation to education, NZAID’s focus is to increase access to, and quality of, basic education, especially at the primary school level. NZAID has led the donor community’s support for Vanuatu’s move towards a Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) in education. The aim is for all donors to align funding with the Government of Vanuatu’s own national education plan, and channel resources through government systems rather than running separate projects. The education SWAp will support improved resource planning and capacity building, and donor funds will be reflected in national budget allocations and auditing processes. NZAID’s support so far has included establishment of the Education Partners’ Group, which has a code of conduct signed by donors to show their commitment to improved donor coordination, alignment and harmonisation. NZAID support has also enabled the establishment of a comprehensive education database (the Vanuatu Education Management and Information System) to support evidence-based policy development and planning. NZAID and AusAID have conducted joint missions to assess the institutional and financial management capacity of the Ministry in order to better build its capacity toward a full future SWAp. During 2008-2009, NZAID and AusAID channelled up to $10m for priorities identified by the Ministry of Education, while also assisting the Vanuatu Government prepare for a SWAp in 2010. Schools are receiving teaching materials and stationery, teachers are being supported, and refurbishment of classrooms is underway. Priorities for 2010 included providing school grants for children in years one to six, to replace fees paid by parents and encourage more children to attend school; building classrooms and water tanks; providing reading books and stationery to primary schools and supporting development of a national curriculum and curriculum standards. In addition, to help Vanuatu meet its human resource needs, each year NZAID provides up to 25 tertiary scholarships for study in Pacific institutions and five awards for study in New Zealand. The scholarships programme is supplemented by a Short-Term Award Scheme to support professional training or attachment to a New Zealand organisation to gain hands-on experience. France Education, agriculture and food safety were the main priorities for France’s aid to Vanuatu between 2006 and 2010. In the education sector, French cooperation aims at helping Vanuatu to define and implement an education system reform aimed, in particular, at creating true bilingualism in a concerted manner with all the other donors. Within the SWAp context, France participates in a multinational study establishing a diagnosis of the education system and formulating reform 30
proposals. This contribution focuses especially on the unification of the system on a bilingual basis. It will lead to the implementation of a multi-year program (primary and secondary basic education, technical instruction and professional training and management of the education system by the Ministry). In the agricultural sector, the Organization Product for Farmers for Associative Marketing (POPACA) is an agricultural development project implemented by the Secretary of Agriculture in Vanuatu and co-financed along with France (MAE/FSP €1,500,00 and the European Union (9th EDF, €1,680,000). The aim of the project is to fight poverty and support rural populations by helping to increase small-scale farming revenues. Its main goal is to participate in creating sustainable small producer organizations within the commercial-family farming development framework. Millennium Challenge Account Vanuatu has received a grant of US$65.7 million from the Government of the United States of America through the Millennium Challenge Corporation to support a five-year programme of investments in the transport sector, aimed at facilitating poverty reduction through economic growth. Vanuatu is now in the implementation phase of the program. By September 2010 just over US$60 million had been disbursed. The program was developed through a consultative process and is designed to reduce poverty through infrastructure development to enable farmers in rural areas to get their produce to the markets and to foster development of the tourism industry. institutional support and capacity building. There were no ongoing loan projects in the portfolio in 2008, but there are three active technical assistance projects amounting to US$2.2 million. Vanuatu joined the World Bank Group in 1981. Since then, credits totalling US$18.9 million have been committed, the most recent in 2001. World Bank investments in Vanuatu have covered agricultural extension and training (1983), transportation and education infrastructure (1986), primary and secondary education (1988), affordable housing (1991), and an investment to support education in vernacular languages (2001), which never became effective. All of these are now closed. The Bank Group has provided grants for technical assistance to support the Government of Vanuatu’s reform efforts. The Bank Group anticipates significantly scaling up support for Vanuatu over the next few years. Its planned engagement with Vanuatu is focused on encouraging the access of Vanuatu citizens to regional labour markets, promoting privatesector-led growth, and strengthening Vanuatu’s disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation efforts. Asian Development Bank and World Bank The Asian Development Bank (ADB) operations in Vanuatu started in 1981. Since joining ADB, Vanuatu has received nine loans totalling US$51.25 million and technical assistance for 55 projects amounting to US$16.36 million. More than 50 per cent of the loans were for infrastructure rehabilitation, and more than 40 per cent of the technical assistance funding was for 31
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