INNOVATION FOR FINANCIAL INCLUSION
Fiji Ministry of Education takes up stewardship of Financial Education Project
August 17, 2017Suva, Fiji – Born out of a regional goal to increase financial competency in the Pacific, the Fiji Financial Education (FinEd) Project has been a global best practice for financial education in schools. Full management of the award-winning FinEd project was handed over from the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (PFIP) to Fiji’s Ministry of Education today....
PFIP announces Fin-Ed partnership with the Anglican Church of Melanesia
August 10, 2017Honiara, Solomon Islands – Three Rural Training Centres (RTC) of the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACoM) are the latest Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions that will be providing financial education (FinEd) curricula in their courses from 2018. This partnership between ACoM and the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (PFIP) which will run from 1st July 2017...
Modernised taxation system to transform Solomon Island’s tax and payment system
August 10, 2017Honiara, Solomon Islands – The Solomon Islands Inland Revenue Division (IRD) announced plans to modernize the Government’s Revenue Management System, vastly transforming the tax and payment landscape in the Solomon Islands. As a direct outcome of this modernization project, an estimated 123,800 wage and salary employees, 200 corporate taxpayers and 3,684 small businesses will be able...
