PRIF Week 2024: Celebrating Innovation and Progress
Between October 8-11, 2024, the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) Coordination Office hosted PRIF Week, one of the largest virtual conferences focused on Pacific infrastructure, bringing together development partners, Pacific infrastructure practitioners, government officials, private sector representatives, regional organizations, professional associations, and academia. The event aimed to foster discussion, collaboration, and information sharing on the challenges and opportunities within the Pacific infrastructure sector. This year, the event brought together over 500 participants, including nearly 300 unique virtual attendees and 120 in-person attendees at our physical hubs in Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu.
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Building robust infrastructure—better roads, ports, power, telecommunications, and water infrastructure—across the Pacific is essential for economic development, increasing employment opportunities, attracting investment into new industries, and enabling Pacific countries to participate in the global economy. At the community level, climate-resilient infrastructure will allow Pacific communities to continue to access essential services.
The theme for this year’s hybrid event was Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure in the Pacific. The event shared initiatives to deliver more effective and efficient infrastructure investment across the Pacific; mainstream climate disaster resilience into infrastructure planning, design, and financing; and introduce innovative solutions to transferable projects. It also focused on building local content and new capabilities, investment opportunities, inclusive infrastructure, and digital transformation.
PRIF Week 2024 also hosted a virtual special side event to launch the World Bank's flagship report, the Guide to Mobility for Livable Pacific Cities a blueprint for revolutionizing urban transportation in the Pacific, making it more sustainable, safe, affordable and people-friendly.
Special thanks to our partners for their support: the Asian Development Bank, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the European Investment Bank, the European Union, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the U.S. Department of State, and the World Bank. Special thanks also to our member countries and regional partners. We also extend our gratitude to our 34 panellists for their time and contributions to this important topic.
Video recordings of all sessions can be found at the PRIF website at https://www.theprif.org/prif-week-2024