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APIA, SAMOA – 20 JUNE 2022<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The World Bank has made available a combined total of US$23.7 million (WST63 million) in grant funding to Samoa to boost support for its recovery.<\/p>\n

Although Samoa remained COVID-19-free until early 2022, the country operated under a State of Emergency since March 2020, triggered by the pandemic. In March 2022, Samoa recorded its first community transmission, and as of June 13, 2022, the country has reached its highest number of cases at 14,376 community cases and 28 COVID-19 related deaths.<\/p>\n

With unprecedented social and economic impacts felt across the country, Samoa\u2019s tourism industry came to a standstill and generated knock-on effects on other sectors.\u00a0 Households have felt the full brunt of the economic impacts of the pandemic, with the poorest and vulnerable most severely affected.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0The economic fallout from the war in Ukraine \u2013 such as rising commodity prices – have further exacerbated an already difficult time.<\/p>\n

In response to these urgent needs, the World Bank has committed US$14 million (WST37.2 million) through the second of a two-part resilience development project series. This is in addition to US$9.7 million (WST25.8 million) disbursed in May 2022 under the Catastrophe-Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat-DDO) of the\u00a0first resilience project<\/a>. Samoa has drawn on similar funding in the wake of the measles outbreak in 2019, and in March 2020 to bolster the government\u2019s financial capacity to support COVID-19 preparedness and response.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe double economic shocks that have hit Samoa in recent years \u2013 including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine \u2013 have had a significant impact on businesses, the tourism and health sectors and on Samoan families\u2019 livelihoods,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>said\u00a0Lasse Melgaard, World Bank Resident Representative for the South Pacific<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe are committed to supporting Samoa\u2019s recovery through this financing to bolster the country\u2019s economic, climate and social resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Samoan Minister of Finance, Mulipola Anarosa Ale-Molio\u2019o <\/strong>said this support from the World Bank will strengthen Samoa\u2019s capacity to respond and recover from the recent disasters especially the pandemic.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also important in being able to better prepare for future disasters, encourage foreign and private sector investments, create jobs, and harness community resilience to public health emergencies in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

This grant support is funded through the International Development Association (IDA) – the World Bank\u2019s fund for the world\u2019s most in need countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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