Establishment of the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility Coordination Office

A subsequent phase with an approved budget of $9.09 million was approved on 3 October 2019. An increase in TA amount and minor change in scope memo is being processed by the user unit to include a $2 million contribution from the United States. This will be the first contribution from the United States. Following the recommendations from the PRIF Governance and Implementation Review, the communication strategy for the new phase addresses the need for a regional perspective in partner coordination and improvement in information sharing and coordination with regional agencies; increase in in-country coordination with the PRIF partners through SWGs; increase in the level of support for national infrastructure investment plans including the inclusion of asset management and maintenance, capacity building; and recruitment of PRIF CO team leader to take an increasingly strategic view of the work program, development of strategic products and discussion papers in collaboration with the PRIF CO team and SWGs. In addition, the PMC meetings are now planned to create more time for strategic PMC discussions by approving some concept notes out of session