Research

Two comprehensive development areas (ZAC) with complementary purposes – accommodate housing and business activities – have been created. The aim is to address the challenges of urbanization and development in Greater Nouméa. They should allow a harmonious development of the city, by promoting...

The Magnin and Baie des Citrons/Anse Vata private clinics are merging to become the new Ile Nou Magnin clinic. It will provide a full range of services from 24-hour emergency services to follow-up and rehabilitation care. It is scheduled to open in 2018.

Based in Noumea, the Pacific Ocean Regional Division covers three countries in the region: New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna and French Polynesia.

A coalition spanning the globe, from Canada to New Zealand has joined forces to use nature-based solutions to help communities in the Global South better adapt to climate change. AFD, the European Union and Australia are among the partners at the center of the innovative Kiwa initiative, which...

The Pacific Ocean is a world heritage region that needs to be preserved with its outstanding land and marine biodiversity that affords priceless services to communities. Located in one of the world’s most climate change vulnerable regions, the Pacific countries and territories have little...

AFD is providing emergency funding to help 12 Pacific island countries and territories monitor and respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. The support will also boost the region’s ability to cope with other health crises and emerging diseases, like dengue fever.

Since 2010, the “New Caledonia” sui generis territory has been developing from a normative activity to an increasingly massive intervention in the economy. With the various transfers of competences from the State, New Caledonia now actively participates in the implementation of virtually all the...

The Observatory of New Caledonian Municipalities has just been released. The 2019 edition, the 4th of its kind, is based on the 2017 accounts of the 33 municipalities. This publication produced by AFD’s Nouméa agency, which is intended for elected officials, municipal teams and their partners,...

Around 20 Pacific islands suffering from climate change and biodiversity erosion are going to receive financial support from AFD and its partners. This support will help them carry out projects to conserve nature and adapt to climate events.

The Kiwa Initiative aims to strengthen the climate change resilience of Pacific Island ecosystems, communities and economies through Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). Launched by AFD in 2020, the initiative is the product of a unique commitment driven by France and the European Union, with Canada,...

Emmanuel Macron made a landmark visit to Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea in July, the first by a French President since Charles de Gaulle. The visit comes as climate change poses enormous risks for countries, communities and islands across a region seen as a laboratory for solutions to the...

The RESCCUE project, implemented by the Pacific Community (SPC), aims to fight against the impacts of climate change. How? By increasing the resilience of the terrestrial and marine ecosystems of the Pacific Small Island Developing States and developing financial mechanisms able to sustainably...

At the Interministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) on February 8, 2018, the government made a commitment to strengthen the integration of overseas territories into their regional watersheds by supporting cooperation projects with neighboring states. Measure...

Sponsored by the governments of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, and supported by AFD'S FICOL fund, the establishment of the Relais de la Francophonie in Port Vila is an important new symbol of the cultural and economic ties between the two territories. The project has just recently been...

The Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN) is strengthening its surveillance and response capacity to combat epidemic diseases in the region.

Ouvea is listed as World Heritage by UNESCO and is one of the largest Pacific atolls (54 km long, 132 km²). It has a population of 3,400. The island is particularly vulnerable to climate hazards and global warming: cyclones Cook and Donna in 2017, drought and water shortages, and rising water...

AFD is cofinancing the Témala solar power plant to allow cleaner energy to be generated. 12,000 photovoltaic panels will be installed, with a capacity to produce electricity for the equivalent of 1,500 households.

New Caledonia’s geographical isolation, far travelling distances from one island to another, and its sharp economic and social disparities all add to the difficulties of healthcare provision, especially for the elderly and disabled.

Given the French territory's struggle to provide...

The Territory is installing an independent mobile phone network – Manuia – to meet the need to improve local telecommunications infrastructure and contribute to opening up the territory.