The Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map is an analytical tool designed to enhance aid effectiveness in the Pacific by improving coordination, alignment and accountability of foreign aid through enhanced transparency of aid flows. The Pacific Aid Map has collected data on more than 37,000 projects and activities across all the Pacific Islands from 97 donors from 2008 onwards. This raw data has been made freely available on this interactive platform, allowing users to drill down and manipulate the data in a variety of ways.
The Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map is updated on an annual basis.
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Reporting
The Pacific Aid Map database is the most comprehensive ever compiled on Official Development Finance to Pacific. However, there will always be development projects operating in the region that have either not been reported by development partners or otherwise publicly recorded. There may also be errors or inconsistencies in some of the data compiled for this project. In those respects, the map remains incomplete.
The Pacific Aid Map team encourages users to provide us details on these gaps. Please do not hesitate to send us an email with information on any project that we can track down and include in the map.
Pacific Aid Map Team
Alexandre Dayant is the Project Lead of the Pacific Aid Map. He is a senior economist and Deputy Director of the Indo‑Pacific Development Centre, a dedicated policy research centre within the Lowy Institute.
Riley Duke is a Research Fellow working on the Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map. He holds a Master of International Relations from the University of Sydney, with a specialisation in Country Risk Assessment.
Nasirra Ahsan is a Research Assistant working on the Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map. She holds a Master of Science in Economics from the Queen Mary University of London. She previously worked as a research consultant for The World Bank.
Roland Rajah is Director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre, a dedicated policy research centre within the Lowy Institute. Roland also serves as the Lowy Institute’s Lead Economist, a position he has held since joining the Institute in 2017.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the critical research contributions of Jacob Stone, Lucie Greenwood, Wendy Xiao, Michael Phan Minh Ngyuen, Sulagna Basu, Tahi Izumi, Roland Rajah, Caitlin Gauci, Jia Deng, Gilliane De Gorostiza and Jonathan Pryke.
Special thanks also to the Pacific Islands Forum and the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility for their ongoing support.
The Institute would finally like to thank the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) for supporting this initiative.
The Pacific Aid Map site was designed and built by Stephen Hutchings.
This project is supported by Australian Aid.
