9 Mar 2010

EU signs new aid agreement with Vanuatu

10:20 pm on 9 March 2010

The European Union has signed a new aid agreement to provide help to agriculture in Vanuatu and to strengthen the social sector.

Following talks on Monday Vanuatu and EU agreed on a new financing agreement worth over eight million US dollars for the next five years for agriculture and other economic development.

Separately the EU has also given around 300 thousand US dollars for the theatre group, Wan Small Bag, which through theatre aims to raise awareness of gender based violence, to reduce rates of sexually transmitted disease and to improve reproductive health.