Economics
USAID dedicates funds to manage and prevent illegal, unreported, and unregulated this industry, a critical part of the Pacific economy.
What is fishing?
Per Ambassador Hennessey-Niland, in a 2022 article published in the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, American failure to maintain regional credibility could see Pacific nations turn to this foreign government.
What is the People's Republic of China?
The U.S. offered $3 million dollars to the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) in the Pacific to counter disinformation and hate speech that resulted from a pandemic caused by this illness.
What is COVID-19?
There are approximately this many Pacific Islands.
What are over 25,000?
This country is where the Ambassador served as an Ambassador from 2020-2022
What is Palau?
This is a five-year grant facility that addresses critical development challenges across the 12 Pacific island countries, sponsored by USAID.
What is the Pacific American Fund?
This U.S. Department announced $25m in capacity building funds to counter illicit drug trafficking in Palau, the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia.
What is the Department of Defense?
In 2020, the U.S. gave nearly $1.5 million in USAID funding so Pacific Island nations could combat this issue, which is defined as "the unlawful act of transporting or coercing people in order to benefit from their work or service."
What is human trafficking?
This country was jointly ruled by the British and French until independence in 1980.
What is Vanuatu?
This university, home of the Fletcher School of International Affairs, is the Ambassador's alma mater
What is Tufts University?
In 2020, U.S. Embassy Suva announced $20,000 dollars in funding for small businesses in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, and Tonga, distributed through an association with the abbreviation PTO, officially called this.
What is the Pacific Tourism Organization?
In 2020, for the first time ever, foreign military financing programming for maritime police units in Solomon Islands, Kiribati, and Tuvalu was implemented by this branch of the U.S. military.
What is the U.S. Coast Guard?
The State Department’s GEC ensured access to credible and independent news by giving media outlets in the Pacific Islands the ability to publish Associated Press (AP) content in English and New York Times (NYT) reporting in English and Mandarin free of charge. The Acroynm GEC stands for this.
What is the Global Engagement Center?
This island nation, formerly known as the New Hebrides, gained independence from joint British and French rule in 1980.
What is Vanuatu?
The Ambassador coaches this sport in his free time at Texas A&M?
What is Soccer?
In 2020, the U.S. announced $15 million in recovery funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support Typhoon Wutip reconstruction efforts in this Island country.
What are the Federated States of Micronesia?
The Global Defense Reform Program, GDRP, planned to embed a second advisor in this country in the fall of 2020 to support the capacity building of the Maritime Law Center and further development of the new Maritime Operations Center.
What is Palau?
The State Department funded a $250,000 training and capacity-building program for new diplomats in the U.S. Freely Associated States of Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and this country to strengthen their skills, including in diplomatic protocol, multilateral diplomacy, and foreign policy.
What are the Marshall Islands?
This is the approximate population of the Republic of Palau.
What is 18,000?
The Ambassador was the first American diplomat since 1979 to visit this place.
What is Taiwan?
In 2020, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of Insular Affairs and Bureau of Reclamation announced professional support and funding to enhance water and power resiliency in the Republic of Palau, the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia, three separate states known collectively as this.
What are the Freely Associated States?
The Indo-Pacific MDA seeks to facilitate coordination on maritime law enforcement and information analysis between the Oceania Customs Organization and the Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police's Pacific Transnational Crime Network, the acronym MDA standing for this.
What is Maritime Domain Awareness?
This State Department Bureau, in collaboration with the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, awarded $700,000 to the Pacific Community (SPC) to improve public data and information on good governance and human rights and strengthen government institutions.
What is the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor?
There are two Pacific Islands known as Christmas Island, belonging to these two different nations.
What are Kiribati and Australia?
Ambassador Hennessey-Niland recently ran for this elected position within the US Soccer Federation.
What is the Fan Council?