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Nauru and ADB

ADB’s operations in Nauru focuses on infrastructure—particularly its main port and urban development—and public sector management, including fiscal sustainability, state-owned enterprise governance, and social protection.

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Nauru Facts

ADB's Work in Nauru

As a single island measuring only 21 square kilometers, Nauru faces the challenge of developing new drivers of growth amid significant resource constraints. The Government of Nauru’s income derives mainly from a regional processing center for asylum seekers and revenues from selling fishing licenses.

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and associated trade and travel disruptions have affected Nauru’s supply chains—compounding the challenges that the country already faced because of its small size, distance from markets, and dependence on imports.

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Data: Nauru

Economic Forecasts

Economic Forecasts

Forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.

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Poverty in Nauru

Poverty in Nauru

Development indicators for Nauru, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Results of ADB-Supported Operations

Results of ADB-Supported Operations

Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.

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Projects Cofinanced

Projects Cofinanced

Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects.

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ADB Projects in Nauru   View all projects

Featured

  • How innovation is helping to deliver a new port for Nauru

    The unique challenges of financing and building a climate-resilient port in a tiny Pacific country required ADB to develop and deploy innovative approaches to ensure the project’s design, governance, and monitoring were efficient and effective.

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Contact: Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office (PLCO)

Level 20, 45 Clarence Street
Sydney, NSW Australia 2000

  Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Monday to Friday)

  Tel +61 2 8270 9444
  Fax +61 2 8270 9445
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Nauru Pacific Country Office
Government Building
Yaren District, NRU68
Republic of Nauru

Lotte SCHOU-ZIBELL (Ms)
Regional Director
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Sally SHUTE-TREMBATH (Ms)
External Communications Specialist
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Matthew HODGE (Mr)
Deputy Regional Director and Senior Country Specialist
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  Holidays 2023

The Nauru Pacific Country Office will be closed on these dates:

  • New Year's Day: January 2 (Monday), in lieu of January 1
  • Independence Day: January 31 (Tuesday)
  • Good Friday: April 7 (Friday)
  • Easter Monday: April 10 (Monday)
  • Constitution Day: May 17 (Wednesday)
  • RONPhos Handover: June 30 (Friday), in lieu of July 1
  • Hammer DeRoburt Day: September 25 (Monday)
  • Angam Day: October 26 (Thursday)
  • Christmas Day: December 25 (Monday)
  • Boxing Day: December 26 (Tuesday)

Last updated: 12 December 2022