Australia to invest $47M on school infrastructure and another $10M for Rural Electrification Fund

Good news as Australia has announced another social infrastructure program of $47 million to carry out work to design and build infrastructure that is cyclone-resistant, disability-inclusive, and constructed using local materials and local people, with an initial focus on schools in the Suva to Nausori corridor.

This has been announced by Australian High Commissioner to Fiji Ewen McDonald While speaking at the Australian Day Celebration where he says he visited several of the nine schools they refurbished in Vanua Levu post the cyclone and admired the quality of the work done.

Australia will invest another $10.8 million in the Fiji Rural Electrification Fund which will bring their total investment to $12.3 million to this fund.

McDonald says this is the largest investment in off-grid renewable energy so far from Australia under their Climate Infrastructure Financing Partnership.

He says they are proud to be working with the Government of Fiji to provide renewable energy to the last 4 percent of the population who are not yet connected to the main energy grid.

The Commissioner says they are also working together on zero emissions by 2050, and Australia has committed $150 million to the Pacific Resilience Fund, a regionally designed fund to address climate issues for Fiji and the region.