Members of the Microfinance Pasifika Network and the PMW Steering Committee identified a range of priority challenges and opportunities for achieving greater financial inclusion in the Pacific. PMW provided a platform to seek solutions to these challenges and support organisations to better take advantage of opportunities by building the capacity of stakeholders and institutions. PMW delegates participated in several Plenary and Panel sessions to learn about new initiatives, discuss and debate ‘best practice’, exchange knowledge and build partnerships to increase progress towards achieving greater financial inclusion in the region. Alongside these sessions multiple intensive workshops were held giving delegates further opportunities to build capacity and network with other stakeholders.
Some of the topics for this year’s PMW included:
- Digital finance and delivery channels
- Women’s empowerment through access to finance
- Enhancing the potential of non-bank financial institutions
- Growing micro clients’ businesses
- Policy and regulation attuned to the Pacific
- Products and services innovation
- Measuring financial inclusion in the Pacific
- Effective corporate governance structures to improve performance
- A special session on financial inclusion in the Solomon Islands
- And much more!
The Pacific Microfinance Week 2015 Program can be downloaded here.
