Improving the Delivery of Infrastructure Services in the Pacific

Improving the Delivery of Infrastructure Services in the Pacific : Technical Assistance Consultant’s Report
Prepared by GlobalWorks, United States of America
For the Asian Development Bank, December 2007
3 volumes
Full report

This report contains the findings, regional and national strategies, and recommendations that constitute the chief results of ADB’s regional technical assistance (RETA) project: Improving the Delivery of Infrastructure Services in the Pacific. The infrastructure sectors examined include: telecoms, water/sanitation, power, roads, ports, and shipping.

Volume I is the Executive Summary, providing a synopsis of the main findings concerning the critical issues and the status of infrastructure sectors in the eight ADB Pacific Developing Member Countries (Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu) participating in the RETA’s consultative process, and of the national and regional strategies and of the concept of a Regional Advisory Service that have been developed from the consultations.

Volume II contains the full national strategies and country reports of the eight countries, the regional strategy paper, and the concept paper for a Regional Advisory Service (a capacity that might be developed to support implementation of the regional strategy).

Volume III contains the full papers discussing the critical issues affecting infrastructure that have been examined by the RETA, to wit, (i) Governance and Regulation, (ii) Finance and Private Sector Partnership (PSP), (iii) Asset Maintenance, and (iv) Benchmarking.