Fiji: Sustainable and Resilient Recovery Program for Fiji (AIIB-000663)

Countries
  • Fiji
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
C
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Aug 1, 2022
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of Fiji
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Law and Government
  • Technical Cooperation
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 50.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Loan Amount (USD)
$ 50.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 338.30 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ AIIB website

Updated in EWS Jun 15, 2023

Disclosed by Bank May 30, 2022

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to the bank's documents, "The program objective is to support the Government of Fiji (GOF) to restore fiscal sustainability and inclusive climate-resilient economic growth, which have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and coinciding disasters, while building fiscal, community, and private sector resilience to climate change and future shocks."

The program will be co-financed with Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide a single-tranche policy-based loan (PBL) to GOF. The program comprises three reform areas: (i) public financial management for fiscal resilience and debt sustainability, (ii) public policy for community resilience, and (iii) enabling environment for resilient private sector recovery.

The program builds on and complements reforms under the AIIB and ADB supported Sustained Private Sector-Led Growth Reform Program in 2020, while responding to policy challenges intensified by the pandemic. After its economy's contraction by an unprecedented 17.2% in 2020, the economy is expected to have further declined by 4.1% in 2021 because of the local COVID-19 outbreak. The program will help create fiscal space to implement a new medium-term reform program that is expected to be finalized in 2022, integrating the post-election government's reform priorities after national elections expected in the second half of 2022. The program will support GOF's reforms to systematically mainstream resilience (including climate resilience) into the government's budgeting and decision-making processes, as well as in its medium-term reform agenda.

Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

AIIB: USD 50 million
ADB: USD 150 million
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA): USD 76.6 million
Government of Australia: USD 60.1 million (Grant)
Government of New Zealand: USD 1.6 million (Grant)


Contact Information
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AIIB
Bo Zhang, Investment Operations Officer
bo.zhang@aiib.org

ADB
Erik Aelbers, Unit Head, Economics and Programming
eaelbers@adb.org

Borrower
H.E. Nemia Dawai
Head of Treasury at Ministry of Economy Fiji
nemia.dawai@economy.gov.f

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

You can submit an information request for project information at: https://www.aiib.org/en/contact/information-request/index.html

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF AIIB

The AIIB has established the Accountability Mechanism for Project-Affected People (PPM). The PPM provides Òan opportunity for an independent and impartial review of submissions from Project-affected people who believe they have been or are likely to be adversely affected by AIIBÕs failure to implement the ESP in situations when their concerns cannot be addressed satisfactorily through Project level GRMs or AIIB Management processes.Ó Two or more project-affected people can file a complaint. Under the current AIIB policy, when the bank co-finances a project with another development bank, it may apply the other bank's standards. You can refer to the Project Summary Information document to find out which standards apply. You can learn more about the PPM and how to file a complaint at: https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/project-affected-peoples-mechanism/how-we-assist-you/index.html

The complaint submission form can be accessed in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, Chinese, English, Tagalog, Hindi, Nepali, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu. The submission form can be found at: https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/project-affected-peoples-mechanism/submission/index.html

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