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The Grant Contracts formalizing Japan’s Grant Assistance for Grass-Roots Human Security Project, GGP for two new projects for the Kingdom of Tonga were signed on Friday, 24 October 2025 in Nuku’alofa. The signing ceremony was held at the Ministry of Finance conference room at St. George Building.

PFM reform journeys of Tonga and Fiji demonstrate that, despite ongoing challenges, meaningful progress is possible in strengthening national systems to better respond to climate change.

There has been a marked decline in Pacific development and progress against the SDGs since the early 2000s, attributable to the impacts of major disaster events, remoteness of Pacific Island countries (PICs) and distance to markets, and the constrained size of Pacific economies, private sectors, government administrations and populations.