Our 2024 Key Findings Report and all the underlying data are available on our website: pacificaidmap.lowyinstitute.org If you have any questions, feel free to reach out! 9/9

Thank you to my colleagues from the Indo-Pacific Development Centre Riley Duke, Nasirra Ahsan and Roland Rajah, as well as to the whole @lowyinstitute.bsky.social team that assisted us along the way 8/9

Geopolitics drives fragmentation of aid - The rise of “micro-donors” has meant that the same amount of ODF per capita is being dispersed across many more projects by many more donors 7/9

The infrastructure race poses growing debt risks - Some 60% of infrastructure financing in the Pacific is now being financed by loans 6/9

Aid securitisation hampers human development - Strategic competition has come with a larger focus on infrastructure, opening gaps in health and education priorities 5/9

Beijing’s #Pacific strategy gets smarter - China’s ODF has acquired a more targeted focus on winning influence in specific countries, involving more grants and community-level outreach 4/9

#China reclaims its position as the Pacific’s second largest bilateral donor - After a pandemic lull, Beijing has narrowly displaced the United States in ODF spending and ramped up its project commitments 3/9

Official Development Finance (ODF – development grants and loans) to the #Pacific Islands region plummeted by 18% from 2021 levels, with falls in grant support and growing donor reliance on non-concessional financing 2/9