Infrastructure Development Plan 2016 - 2025.

This second Infrastructure Development Plan (IDP) is a cross-sector ten-year document aiming to outline the major infrastructure initiatives set out by the Governments of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The included projects will be reviewed at regular intervals as part of the national and state planning and budgeting processes. The Plan covers the infrastructure in ten sectors representing the components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions. They are (1) electric power; (2) water and wastewater systems; (3) solid waste management; (4) road and pedestrian facilities; (5) maritime transportation; (6) air transportation; (7) telecommunications; (8) education; (9) health; and (10) government administrative buildings. In particular, the IDP involves three main components, namely (i) institutional; (ii) infrastructure; and (iii) funding. It also provides for a gradual transition to whole-of-life asset management and the guidance for the partners on the priorities of the national needs in the sector. Implementation has been planned over three periods.
The Vision at the basis of the infrastructure Strategy has remained the same as the IDP of 2004, namely "To improve the life and livelihood of the Federated States of Micronesia citizens with affordable, environmentally sound and sound infrastructure". The same applies to the overall objective, which aims to promote the sustainable social and economic development of FSM through the provision and utilization of cost-effective, safe, reliable and sustainable infrastructure. All priority infrastructure projects have been rated against four strategic objectives, as follows (i) economic, relating to economic growth, private sector capacity and employment, and living conditions and income generation; (ii) social, relating to public health and education services; (iii) environmental with particular attention to natural disasters and climate change resilience; and (iv) institutional, relating to government infrastructure agencies and financial sustainability.
To make agriculture and fisheries more productive and sustainable, the Plan proposes to extend cross-island and inner roads to facilitate agricultural and other development and to improve dock facilities to meet fisheries shipping needs.
In order to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, the document envisages to provide road and maritime transportation infrastructure that enables market opportunities to be realized for all areas of the country.
The resilience of livelihoods to disasters, a cross-sector targeted throughout the document, will be increased by building road and pedestrian facilities infrastructure resilient to the impacts of climate change and providing education and health infrastructure that is resilient to potential natural disasters and the impacts of climate change.
As for the Governance, accountability for implementing the Plan, at State level, will lie with the Infrastructure Planning and Implementation Committees. Furthermore, this Plan establishes a Project Management Office in each State, responsible to the Committee for the day-to-day planning and implementation of projects. While at National level, the Department of Transportation, Communication and Infrastructure will assume the overall program coordination role, supported by the Program Management Unit, and will work closely with the Departments of Finance and Administration and Foreign Affairs. The IDP also plans to provide telecommunications systems infrastructure to utilize ICT for good governance.