24 Ocotober, 2020. Australia is facing an estimated farm labour shortage of 26,000 workers. Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Tonga, Vanuatu and East Timor have agreed to restart their farm labour schemes.
ADB approved $94 million in contingent disaster financing the Pacific Disaster Resilience Program
25 November, 2020. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $94 million in contingent disaster financing (CDF) for the third phase of the Pacific Disaster Resilience Program to help boost disaster resilience in the region.