Federated States of Micronesia

13 September 2021, The president requested the Congress to appropriate approximately USD2 million to augment the FSM Social Protection Program for Low-Income Household Assistance, which is otherwise funded in whole by the generous assistance of the Asian Development Bank.

(i) 22 April 2020, The government approved the economic stimulus package of USD15 million (about 3.8% of GDP). The package includes measures to support affected businesses, including wage subsidies, debt relief, as well as social security tax and other tax rebates; (ii) 13 September 2021, The president requested to extend Economic Stimulus Package (i.e. the Tourism Sector Mitigation Fund) for businesses to 30 June 2022.

(i) 31 March 2020, USD0.47 million under the COVID-19 Emergency Response; (ii) 8 April 2020, USD0.71 million under the TA 9950-REG: Regional Support to Address the Outbreak of COVID-19 and Potential Outbreak of Other Communicable Disease. As of 17 July 2020, the amount decreased to USD0.47 million. As of 12 February 2021, the amount increased to USD0.61 million. As of 8 October 2021, the amount increased to USD0.67 million; (iii) 15 April 2020, USD0.02 million technical assistance under Strengthening Social Protection in the Pacific; (iv) 17 April 2020, USD6 million under the Pacific Disaster Resilience Program (Phase 2); (v) 24 April 2020, USD0.13 million technical assitance under Developing the Pacific Health Sector (Additional Financing); (vi) 5 June 2020, USD0.14 million technical assistance under Pacific Economic Management (Additional Financing); (vii) 29 July 2020, USD1.03 million under COVID-19 Emergency Response; (viii) 10 August 2020, USD0.35 million under Knowledge and Support Technical Assistance for Strengthening Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Practices and Hygiene Behavioral Change in the Pacific; (ix) 12 August 2020, USD0.23 million technical assitance under "Support for gender sensitive responses to COVID-19 in the Pacific Developing Member Countries; (x) 12 November 2020, USD14 million CPRO "Health Expenditure and Livelihood Support Program"; (xi) 11 December 2020, USD6 million Pacific Disaster Resilience Program (Phase 3); (xii) 17 December 2020, USD0.10 million technical assistance under "Supporting MSMEs in the Pacific from the Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic".

(i) 27 March 2020, USD7.7 million supplemental funding signed by Trump under the CARES Act through the US DOI Office of Insular Affairs’ Technical Assistance Program; (ii) 30 March 2020, USD27.6 thousand awarded by US HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; (iii) 1 April 2020, USD1.26 million allocated by US Department of Health and Human Services; (iv) 8 April 2020, USD3.11 million awarded by US HHS Health Resources and Services Administration to support 5 health center grantees in Chuuk (1), Kosrae (2), Pohnpei (1), and Yap (1); (v) 14 April 2020, the Honorable Livingston A. Taulung, Secretary of the Federated States of Micronesia’s (FSM) Department of Health & Social Affairs and Chair of the COVID-19 Task Force, received His Excellency Huang Zheng, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China (China) in a handover ceremony wherein the Ambassador presented, on behalf of the people and Government of China, medical supplies and a cash donation of USD100,000 to assist the FSM in combatting the COVID-19 Pandemic; (vi) April 2020, The Joint Economic Management Committee, comprised of U.S. and Micronesian government representatives, approved USD1.65 million for Yap and USD1.40 million for Chuuk in prior-year unallocated Compact sector grant funding to be used for health-related COVID-19 preparedness and planning. For Kosrae, USD1.2 million in Compact infrastructure sector grant assistance was approved for construction of a 24-unit COVID quarantine facility. In addition, USD417 thousand in prior-year Compact Infrastructure Maintenance Fund assistance has been provided to Chuuk to assist with hospital infrastructure preparedness; (vii) 13 May 2020, USD300,000 from UN COVID-19 Response & Recovery Fund to Support COVID-19 Contingency Plan for Federated States of Micronesia; (viii) 1 September 2020, USD1.66 million Airport Improvement Program from the US Federal Aviation Administration; (ix) April 2021, USD9.67 million under American Rescue Plan Act Awards for COVID-19 response; (x) No amount/estimate: FSM receives COVID-19 medicine “Regeneron” from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services [update].