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Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - 2:15am

Today, U.S. Ambassador to Fiji Joseph Cella announced approximately US$200,000 (FJD$406,394) in additional funding to support recovery efforts following the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Yasa, one of the most powerful storms to ever hit Fiji. This new funding brings the total emergency assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to approximately US$300,000 (FJD$609,590). These additional funds will bolster the ability of our humanitarian partner on the ground—the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and their local partner the Fiji Red Cross Society—to scale up response efforts in communities affected by Tropical Cyclone Yasa.

A MERIP staff diver and project beneficiary tending to the underwater coral farm.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 9:45am

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently marked the completion of a partnership that has helped make coastal communities in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, more resilient.

U.S. Government Awards New Climate Adaptation Grant for Tuvalu and Solomon Islands Communities
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 - 9:00pm

The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a new project that will help make the health systems of Pacific Island communities more adaptive to climate change. Through its Pacific-American Climate Fund (PACAM), USAID awarded a US $250,000 grant to the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International (FSPI). FSPI will implement the Mainstreaming Indigenous and Local Knowledge into Human Health Responses to Climate Change project with USAID support. This project will help the peoples of Tuvalu and Solomon Islands use local and indigenous knowledge to inform policies and scale up successful initiatives. This will contribute to building climate resilient health systems in the long term.

Visit of Embassy Officials Highlights U.S. Government Support to Peaceful and Transparent Elections
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 - 1:30am

U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, Hon. Catherine Ebert-Gray, and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director for the Philippines, Pacific Islands, and Mongolia, Dr. Susan Brems, visited Bougainville on August 22-23, 2016 to meet with partners of ongoing U.S. Government support in the region.

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