Single mother and sole bread winner Mary Pako received solar lighting in her home for the first time last year. The 45-year-old, who lives in a remote village of Tenarau in the Guadalcanal province of the Solomon Islands is a client of the South Pacific Business Development (SPBD) Solar Lighting … [Read more...]
GLOBAL HEAD OF UNCDF TO ADDRESS PACIFIC MICROFINANCE
FORUM HONIARA - Organisers of the biennial Pacific Microfinance Week are pleased to announce that the head of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) will be visiting Honiara in September. UNCDF is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs). … [Read more...]
UN invites private sector to help the Pacific’s unbanked access financial services
PACIFIC FINANCIAL INCLUSION PROGRAMME (PFIP) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has launched a new funding facility, inviting financial service providers to develop new ways of enabling low-income and rural Pacific Islanders to access … [Read more...]
PFIP- Australia Supports Financial Inclusion Programme
PACIFIC FINANCIAL INCLUSION PROGRAMME Australian Secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Varghese launched a AUD$14.15 million (FJD$24 million) three-year partnership today with the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme, aimed at increasing financial services for … [Read more...]
Building Partnerships with the Private Sector to Advance Branchless Banking
13 September 2011 by Tillman Bruett and Joep Roest The next post in a new blog series looking at the role public funders can play in branchless banking. We look forward to your comments in the coming weeks. The Pacific has not been a hospitable place for traditional microfinance. Challenging … [Read more...]
PFIP Sponsors Pacific Delegates for Premier Microfinance Training
22 June 2011 Two representatives from microfinance institutions in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea and four representatives from the Reserve or Central Banks in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands will be part of the Pacific delegation to attend the Boulder Institute of Microfinance … [Read more...]
PFIP PRESS RELEASE
Surviving on $90 a month… [ 9th Feb, 2012, Suva, Fiji] Surviving on FJ$90 a month is not easy. So when youths on the chiefly island of Bau were presented with Financial First Steps training, social welfare recipients Akosita Tinai and Leanatasi Vuiloma were also keen on learning skills that … [Read more...]
