COVID-19 presents an unprecedented health and economic challenge, which will have lasting impacts, particularly for Australia’s closest neighbours in Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.
This paper draws on Market Development Facility’s (MDF) extensive on-the-ground experience in empowering businesses to innovate and adapt to demonstrate how this approach will allow businesses to become more efficient and resilient, creating more equitable supply chains and markets, leading to better development outcomes.