About This Offer

The Millennium Challenge Corporation is an independent U.S. Government agency focused on unlocking growth through results-driven foreign assistance. MCC grants support large-scale infrastructure, strategic reforms, and economic modernization. MCC is unlocking growth: MCC’s singular focus on unlocking economic growth recognizes that prosperity is driven by trade, private sector growth, investments in innovation, and efficient markets. Our assistance programs catalyze private capital and champion market solutions, rather than encouraging dependency on foreign aid. To do this, MCC drives policy and institutional reforms that improve the management of public utilities and infrastructure, remove barriers to private sector competition, and modernize government administrative procedures. These reforms enable private sector investment, benefiting the overall economy. In Tonga, the proposed program on digital infrastructure will replace inadequate ICT equipment in the government’s central data center with trusted American equipment. The program offers a unique opportunity to support Tonga with trusted hardware from an American vendor such as Cisco, Dell, or Hewlett Packard. The digital project will also expand the footprint of SpaceX/Starlink, which received a license to deploy internet services from low earth orbit (LEO) satellites in 2022 after a volcanic eruption severed Tonga’s subsea telecommunications cable. Similarly, MCC will support the strengthening of Tonga’s nascent energy commission, enabling a free, fair and transparent energy regulatory framework that will open the growing energy market to US and other reputable private sector investors.

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This is proposed program is currently under development. Please consult www.mcc.gov for regular updates and partnership or contracting opportunities related to this program.