2024-25 bilateral allocation [budget estimate]

$2.1 million

2024-25 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]

$11.9 million

2023-24 bilateral allocation [budget estimate]

$1.9 million

2023-24 total Australian ODA [budget estimate]

$4.8 million

2022-23 total Australian ODA [actual]

$24.3 million

Australia’s development cooperation program in Palau supports Palau’s priorities, including tax reform, digitisation of the health and agricultural sector, tertiary education and training, aviation connectivity, cyber security, renewable energy, gender equality, removal of UXOs and community, media and sports projects.

Program highlights

Under development cooperation with Palau prior to its graduation from ODA, Australia supported development activities to:

• Australia is partnering with Palau to expand connectivity in the Pacific with a non-stop flight service between Brisbane and Koror. The Palau Paradise Express (PPE) commenced in May 2024 and is supported through the Australia-Pacific Partnerships for Aviation Program (P4A). 
• The Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) has funded Palau’s first solar and battery energy storage facility. The power plant will meet 20 per cent of Palau’s energy needs and reduce the government’s dependency on diesel generation. 
• Australia, Japan and the United States, are financing construction of an undersea cable to Palau to provide greater system redundancy.