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The energy sector is important to Samoa's economic, social, infrastructure and environmental composition. This plan has therefore been developed using extensive consultation with many groups. The purpose of the Energy Sector Plan is to provide a comprehensive plan for the energy sector to deliver outcomes consistent with the overarching Strategy for the Development of Samoa (SDS) 2012-2016, with due regard for cross-cutting issues including emphasising the importance of raising living standards, increasing resilience and boosting productivity for sustainable development. It provides a resourcing framework to support implementation of the plan.

This Flood Management Action Plan (FMAP) was developed in response to the Government of Samoa’s request for flood management assistance on particularly in the urban areas surrounding the capital of Apia. The need for flood management was first identified in Samoa’s work plan for the EDF 8 project in WS 3.4 and 3.5 pertaining to hazard assessment and risk reduction. The Plan has been developed as part of the regional EDF 8 Project Reducing Vulnerabilities in the Pacific ACP States, executed by the Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC). The implementation of the Plan should also consider the following documents, which had been developed in conjunction:| Samoa Floodplain Management: A Guideline for Planning and Development Assessment 2007| Samoa - Capacity Building in Flood Risk Management – Technical report SOPAC/EDF8 Project No : ER0069a

The energy sector is important to Samoa's economic, social, infrastructure and environmental composition. This plan has therefore been developed using extensive consultation with many groups. The purpose of the Energy Sector Plan is to provide a comprehensive plan for the energy sector to deliver outcomes consistent with the overarching Strategy for the Development of Samoa (SDS) 2012-2016, with due regard for cross-cutting issues including emphasising the importance of raising living standards, increasing resilience and boosting productivity for sustainable development. It provides a resourcing framework to support implementation of the plan.

In the past two decades Samoa has made sound progress in terms of economic and social development. In the early 1990s, two cyclones caused major devastation to the economy and in 1994 the Taro Leaf Blight destroyed Samoa’s major export earning commodity, taro. However, infrastructure has been restored, and macroeconomic stability has been achieved as a result of the bold reforms measures taken by government in the public sector, financial sector and to the tax and tariff systems. The economy is now benefiting from strong economic growth. Social indicators have improved and a host of activities are presently directed to improving health and education.

Samoa's national plan on natural disaster management emergency procedures