Common use of Donor Coordination Clause in Contracts

Donor Coordination. The majority of donors in Vanuatu have focused more consistently on the social sectors. Donors such as Australia and New Zealand have recently committed to enlarging their assistance to the agriculture and tourism sectors in response to the priorities for growth and poverty reduction outlined in the Government’s PAA. MCC’s focus on transport infrastructure presents a number of mutually beneficial coordination opportunities with ongoing and planned donor programs, namely: the European Union (the “EU”) and France’s Agricultural Producers Organization Project; the EU and the Asian Development Bank’s (“ADB”) Tourism Training and Education project; ADB’s Rural Credit Strengthening and Secured Transaction Framework projects; New Zealand Agency for International Development’s Customary Land Tenure initiatives; the Australian Agency for International Development’s “AusAID”) Business Climate Reform program; and the EU’s Institutional Strengthening for Infrastructure Maintenance program. Moreover, AusAid is providing funding for key household data surveys (such as the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (“HIES”), which will be used in monitoring Program impacts. The United States Agency for International Development does not maintain a mission in Vanuatu and is not currently providing any development assistance programs to Vanuatu.