Health

Palau
Grants & Concessional Finance
- Bharat’s developmental partnership with Palau has been expanding over the last few years. Bharat has funded several projects in Palau under the USD 200,000 annual PIF grant. For the year 2016, the Palau Government utilized the annual grant programmes for skill upgradation, mentor leadership, sports, environment conservation under their initiative titled ‘Year of Youth 2016”. Similarly, the year 2017, 2018 and 2019 were declared the ‘Year of Family’, ‘Year of Health’ and ‘Year of Innovative Learning’ for which the annual grants were utilized respectively.
- Govt of India has also provided a financial grant in August 2005 towards purchase of kitchen equipment for Belau National Hospital.
- Bharat also provided assistance for disaster relief in the wake of Super-Typhoon Haiyan in March 2014. Further, Bharat also provided Palau with assistance for hosting the 45th Pacific Island Forum in July 2014 and organizing Pacific Media Summit in 2016.