Samoa Observer, 31st May 2018
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (S.P.R.E.P.) has been reassured support by the Australian government with the signing of a three-year agreement.
The agreement promises A$12 million (T$22.9m) assistance towards S.P.R.E.P., which becomes effective in July 2018.
Australia’s High Commissioner to Samoa, Sara Moriarty and S.P.R.E.P. Director General, Leota Kosi Latu signed the agreement at the S.P.R.E.P. headquarters, Vailima yesterday.
This agreement is an extension of Australia’s A$18.25 million (T$34.9m) multiyear grant arrangement with S.P.R.E.P. in 2013.
Ms. Moriarty believes in strengthening partnership with S.P.R.E.P. in fighting climate change in the Pacific region.
“The reason Australia has been such a strong firm and partner of S.P.R.E.P. is because Australia has a strong commitment to the South Pacific and S.P.R.E.P. as one of the regional organisation that is headquartered here in Samoa.”