Site Map
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Who We Are
- About PFIP
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Team
- Till Bruett - Regional Financial Inclusion Advisor and Project Manager
- Jeff Liew - PFIP Regional Financial Capacity Advisor
- Anne Nacola - PFIP Project Officer
- Mereseini Tuivuniwai - PFIP Knowledge Management and Scholarship Coordinator
- Derek Tam- PFIP Transition Manager
- Abigail Chang- PFIP Fiji National Task Manager
- Joep Roest- PFIP Financial Inclusion Specialist
- Barry Maher - ILO/PFIP Microinsurance Fellow
- Oliver Ullrich - ILO/PFIP Microinsurance Fellow
- Carol Stewart- ILO/INFUSE Microinsurance Fellow
- Ramanathan Subramanian- Regional Technical Analyst
- Sanjeev Lal- Regional Deputy Manager
- Donors
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Partners
- Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)
- International Monetary Fund Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre (IMF/PFTAC)
- Money Pacific Working Group
- Microfinance Pasifika Network
- Pacific Financial Inclusions Donors Group
- Consultative Group to assist the Poor
- GSMA Mobile Money for the Unbanked
- Micro Insurance Innovation Facility
- Alumni
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What We Do in the Pacific
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Projects & Activities
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Branchless Banking
- Support to DataNets, Ltd. MPowa, PNG
- Mobile banking with Nationwide Microbank
- Research into Mobile Money in PNG
- Banking the Poorest through G2P
- Building a Better and Broader Agent Network in PNG
- Sharing and learning about branchless banking
- Support to Digicel Mobile Money, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu
- Support to National Bank of Vanuatu
- Support to Vodafone Fiji M-PAiSA
- Helping Westpac Bank build an POS Agent Network
- Lowering the Cost of International Remittances
- Financial Competency
- Microinsurance
- Financial Inclusion Policy & Regulation
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Branchless Banking
- Where We Work
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Success Stories
- Financial Literacy Changes Life of Villager
- Reserve Bank of Fiji Taking Giant Steps in Facilitating Mobile Money
- PNG Mobile Money Players Learn from Kenya's M-Banking Success
- PNG Pilot Moves to Support Payments for Cocoa Farmers
- Fiji Leads Pacific's First Mobile Phone Money Transfer Services
- Addressing Delinquency Amongst Microfinance Borrowers
- G2P starts with government to the poorest in Fiji
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Testimonials
- Stuart Mathison - Head of Operations, National Bank of Vanuatu
- Jeremy W. Cleaver - Private Sector Development Specialist, Asian Development Bank
- Michael Rowland - CEO Pacific, ANZ Bank
- Stephen Breen - Mobile Money Director, Digicel Pacific
- Sundar Ramamurthy - Managing Director Data Nets Ltd
- Graham A.N.Wright - Programme Director, MicroSave
- Mr Nicholas Rosellini - Deputy Assistant Administrator & Deputy Regional Director, UNDP Asia Pacific Regional Centre (APRC)
- Outreach
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Projects & Activities
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What We Do in Timor Leste
- About INFUSE
- Projects & Activities
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Timor Knowledge Centre
- Map of Financial Service Access Points in Timor-Leste
- Increasing Access to Investment Credit for SMEs: A Review of Options, For Better Business Initiative
- 2009 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report, Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion and Statement by the Executive Director for the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
- Policy and Regulatory Framework for Remittance - Timor Leste
- Financial Sector Diagnostic Timor-Leste
- Timor Leste Access to Finance for Investment and Working Capital.
- Financial Services Sector Assessment in Timor-Leste
- Timor-Leste: Independent Review of the Credit Component of the Community Empowerment Project, Paper No. 11.
- Inclusive Finance for the Under-Served Economy (INFUSE) Project Document 2007 - 2012
- Success Stories
- Testimonials
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Events
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Upcoming & Recent Events
- Launch of Financial Literacy Green Ribbon Campaign
- Mobile Money Workshop for the Reserve Bank of Fiji
- Mobile Money Workshop for the Bank of Papua New Guinea
- Mobile Money Workshop for the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
- Tonga Informational Exchange on Mobile Money
- Papua New Guinea Informal Information Exchange on Savings
- 6th International Microinsurance Conference
- National Microfinance Workshop: Developing a Strategy for Financial Inclusion in Solomon Islands
- Pacific Credit Union Technical Congress
- Developing Inclusive Financial Systems: CGAP Course for Funders of Microfinance
- Financial Education Summit: Mind Over Money-Influencing Positive Financial Behaviour
- Launch of the Fiji Financial Education Curriculum Development Project
- National Microfinance Workshop- Extending Financial Services Outreach to the Next Level
- Pacific Islands Financial Inclusion Working Group
- Fiji Informal Information Exchange on Savings
- Microfinance Supervision Training
- Accelerating MDG's in the Pacific: Developing the Private Sector
- 3rd Pacific Microfinance Week
- Samoa Information Exchange on Remittances
- Vanuatu Information Exchange: Chatting with the Experts
- Learning Event on Savings, Pacific Microfinance Week
- Learning Event on G2P, Pacific Microfinance Week
- G2P in Fiji: Knowledge Sharing Event
- Weaving the Safety Net: Findings from Microinsurance Demand Research in Fiji
- Fiji Information Exchange on Customer Segmentation of Electronic payment products
- Introducing Microinsurance to Women Market Vendors in Rakiraki, Fiji
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Past Events
- Pacific Financial Literacy Train the Trainers Workshop
- Financial Inclusion for Fijian Bankers Lecture
- Renewable Energy Microfinance Training
- The Pacific Economic Governance Agencies' Seminar Series (PEGASeS)
- World Consumer Rights Day
- South Pacific Central Bank Governors Meeting
- Growth & Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions in Fiji Workshop
- Financial Services Sector Assessment Debriefing
- Timor Leste Informal Information Exchange on Inclusive Finance
- Vanuatu Informal Information Exchange on Mobile Money
- Samoa Informal Information Exchange on Mobile Money
- Solomon Islands Informal Information Exchange on Mobile Money
- PNG Informal Information Exchange on Microinsurance
- Knowledge Product Launch: Financial Capability, Financial Competence and Wellbeing in Rural Fijian Households
- Knowledge Product Launch: Building a Mobile Money Distribution Network in Papua New Guinea
- Pacific Central Bank Financial Inclusion Working Group
- National Microfinance Workshop: Medium Term Strategy for Financial Inclusion in Fiji
- Learning Event on Microinsurance, Pacific Microfinance Week
- Learning Event on Financial Literacy, Pacific Microfinance Week
- Mobile Money Transfer Africa Conference
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poor Annual Meeting
- GSMA Mobile Money Summit
- SEEP Training to Fiji Microfinance Instituitions
- Pacific Financial Inclusion Donors Group Meeting
- Central Bank Financial Inclusion Working Group Study Trip to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)
- Microfinance Exposition and NFIT meeting
- Fiji Informal Information Exchange on Microinsurance
- Central Bank Financial Inclusion Working Group Workshop on Developing Policy Checklist for branchless banking
- Boulder Microfinance Training Programme
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Upcoming & Recent Events
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Research
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Publications
- Financial Capability, Financial Competence and Wellbeing in Rural Fijian Households
- Map of Financial Service Access Points in Timor-Leste
- Fiji Financial Services Sector Assessment
- Reducing Risk: Microinsurance in the Pacific
- Building a Mobile Money Distribution Network in Papua New Guinea
- Beneficiary Perceptions and Attitudes in Fiji
- In Search of Sustainability: The Provision of Rural Financial Services in Solomon Islands
- Credit Unions and Cooperatives in Fiji: A missed opportunity for financial inclusion
- G2P: Expanding Financial Inclusion in the Pacific Report
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Focus Notes
- Women's Financial Inclusion Significantly Improves Household Wellbeing
- Can Fiji Micro Finance Institutions be Sustainable?
- Formulating a National Action Plan for Financial Inclusion in Solomon Islands
- Saving Groups: A Sustainable Mechanism for Rural Financial Services in Solomon Islands
- Five Catalysts for Financial Inclusion in Vanuatu
- Weather Index-Based Insurance in Fiji: Brief on Initial Scoping
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Presentations
- Policy Talk: Agent Banking
- Policy Talk: Mobile Phone Banking
- Policy Talk: Introduction
- Policy Talk: AML CFT for Financial Inclusion
- Policy Talk: Consumer Protection
- Establishing the Alliance for Financial Inclusion in the Pacific
- An Analysis of Sustainable Growth in Fiji
- Financial Inclusion in Fiji: Impact and Opportunities
- The Fiji Economy
- Financial Capability in the Pacific Status Report
- The Global Economy and Regional Outlook
- Definition and Evolution of Microfinance
- Evolution of Microfinance: Financial Systems Approach
- Financial Competence Building in Fiji
- PFIP 2009 Achievements & 2010 Output Results
- The Role of Commerical Banks in Microfinance
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Evolution and What it Could Mean for Timor-Leste
- Prospects for Mobile Money in the Pacific
- Prospects for Mobile Money in the Pacific, Focus on Samoa
- Prospects for Mobile Money in the Pacific, Focus on Vanuatu
- The Future of Microinsurance in Papau New Guinea
- Pacific Banking Literacy Program 2009-2011
- Pacific Banking Remittance Card
- Developing a Financial Competence Framework for the Pacific
- Relationship Between Financial Capability, Financial Competence and Household Wellbeing
- Remittances and Send Money Pacific
- Remittances and Financial Literacy
- Money Smart
- National Strategy for Financial Literacy in New Zealand
- Community Level Financial Literacy Training
- Samoa Enterprise and Financial Education Curriculum Development
- Reaching Microfinance Clients Efficiently with the Services they Need
- Risk, Insurance and Microinsurance
- Microinsurance Prospects and Possibilities in the Pacific: Sales, Marketing, Claims
- Microinsurance Prospects and Possibilities in the Pacific: Product Descriptions
- Study of Micro Insurance Fiji and Papau New Guinea
- Evolution of Microinsurance Products
- Facilitating Agency, Roles and Resposibilities of BASIX
- Designing Renewable Energy Loans
- Increasing Banking Access: a case for interoperability
- Financial Inclusion Practices and Potential in the Pacific
- Building a Mobile Money Market
- SEEP Training: Measuring Performance of Microfinance Instituitions
- Microinsurance: Area of Focus in Fiji
- M-Money in the Middle of The Ocean
- Prospects for Mobile Money in the Kingdom of Tonga
- In Support of Savings: Addressing the Challenges of Papua New Guinea
- Financial Inclusion:Challenges and Opportunities
- Financial Inclusion Strategy: The Fiji Experience
- The Uganda National Strategy
- A Financial Sector Overview: Understanding the Situation in Solomon Islands
- Mobile money: The potential, where it has been done, who is involved and what it could mean for the Solomon Islands
- Building Financial Competency In The Solomon Islands
- Community Based Models and Development Synergies
- Bank of the South Pacific
- Solomon Islands Credit Union League
- Economic Development and Access to Finance in Solomon Islands
- The Psychology of Savings: Designing Products to Save us from Ourselves
- Fiji Financial Education Curriculum Development Project
- Lessons learned for national financial inclusion strategy development
- Public Private Partnerships to Build Financially Inclusive Sectors
- Mobile Money Overview
- UNCDF SmartAid Report
- FinEd Fiji Project
- Prospect of Faster, Cheaper Remittance Tomorrow: A Provider's Perspective
- Klick Ex: Currency Exchange for Everyone
- Cheaper, Faster Remittances Tomorrow
- Observations:Private Remittances
- G2P: Expanding Financial Inclusion in the Pacific, Fiji takes the first steps
- FinEd Fiji: An Introduction to the Project
- Savings Products Case Studies
- Designing Savings Products People Value
- Financial Inclusion in Vanuatu
- Minimum Adult Financial Competencies For Low Income Households in Pacific Island Countries
- Savings Workshop:Evaluations and Feedback
- G2P Workshop: Evaluations and Feedback
- Designing E-Money Products That Meets Customer Needs
- Mobile Money Attitudes and Perception Omnibus Survey
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Publications
- Grants & Other Support
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Media Centre
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Press Releases
- PFIP Provides Support for Pacific Participants' Microfinance Training
- Poor and Rural Excluded from Financial Services in Fiji
- Investing in Women Maximises the Impact of Financial Inclusion: UN Report
- Report on Financial Capability and Wellbeing of Fijian Households to be Launched
- Central Banks Focus on the Unbanked
- Mobile Money gets Coverage in Vanuatu
- Central Banks Gear up for Financial Inclusion
- Mobile Phone Banking to take off in Samoa
- Building A Mobile Money Network in Papua New Guinea
- National Bank of Vanuatu and Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme Announce Partnership to Improve Rural Banking Services
- Working Together with Microfinance for the Benefit of the Poor
- Cutting Costs on Sending Remittances to the Pacific
- Exploring the Potential of Microinsurance in the Pacific
- Survey Finds Financial Literacy Leads to Better Off Households
- Technology Making Microfinance More Accessible
- PFIP Work in Microfinance Recognised
- Financial Literacy Crucial for Sustainable Microfinance
- USD 80,000 Grant a Boost for the Microfinance Pasifika Network
- PNG Hosts the Launch of the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme
- Fiji Microfinance Institutions get a Boost from Financial Training
- Protecting Fiji's poor from the financial devastation caused by Unpredictable Events
- PFIP Clarifies Mobile Money Registration Requirements
- Financial Inclusion in the Pacific Goes Global
- Pacific Central Banks Discuss Expanding Financial Inclusion
- Iosefo Bourne Italy-bound
- Pacific Central Banks Hear Fiji's Experience in Mobile Money Transfer
- Will Kina Soon Go Digital? BPNG Hosts Mobile Money Workshop
- Savings is a Crucial Weapon in the Fight Against Poverty
- Microinsurance: Communicating with Communities in Fiji
- Great Steps Forward for Financial Inclusion in Solomon Islands
- Building a Future Generation of Financially Strong and Competent People
- Stakeholders review financial inclusion strategies
- The Psychology of Savings: Designing Savings Products to Save Us from Ourselves
- PNG businesses meet to discuss mobile money
- PFIP Provides Further Support for LICI's MicroLife Insurance Policy
- Faith Based Organisations Participate in Microinsurance Planning Event
- Cheaper Faster Remittances for Samoa
- FinED Fiji Project First Professional Development Workshop for Primary Teachers
- FinED Fiji Project First Professional Development Workshop for Secondary Teachers
- PFIP Sponsors Pacific Delegates for Premier Microfinance Training
- Fiji on Target to Reach Unbanked Population
- Vodafone MPAiSA Fiji unveils international remittance service
- Solomons Team here to observe FinEd Fiji Project
- Digicel and KlickEx Launch web to mobile wallet remittance transfer
- Regional Workshop to Empower Regulators and Insurance Providers to Protect their Poor
- Workshop to build capacity and support development of microinsurance in the Pacific
- Lautoka Teachers Trained on Financial Education and Integrating FinED into the School Curriculum
- Making Learning Fun - Educational games to boost financial education in schools.
- Low-income households demand new ways to manage emergencies- insurance companies to take lead
- Partnerships in Microinsurance – Insurers look to next steps
- Cash for Christmas- Who is sending money to you?
- Chiefly Island Empowers Youths with Financial Skills
- Pacific Islands Working Group (PIWG) prioritizes consumer protection for 2012
- Surviving on FJ$90 a month
- BLOG: Mobile Money technology- Why do Tom, Mere or Hari need it?
- Survey Finds 80% Prefer Cash Over Mobile Money
- Game Simplifies Insurance for Rakiraki Women
- Timor Leste Women Get Protection through Partnership with Tuba Rei Metin, Moris Rasik and National Insurance Timor-Leste (NITL)
- UN Head Launches First Community Based Microinsurance Scheme in the Pacific
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In the News
- Rural Dwellers Switched On
- You Can Bank On Your Phone
- MPOWA Pilot Extended to Kokopo
- Vodafone tests M-PAISA transfer project
- 250,000 unbanked
- AusAID to Double Aid
- Financial Literacy Not High: RBF
- Fiji:Poor Excluded from Financial Services
- PFIP Website
- Microinsurance in Fiji
- Talk Business on Fiji Microinsurance Information Exchange
- PFIP Clarifies Mobile Money Registration Requirements on Fiji TV
- Details to trace the unbanked
- Save to live: Luvena
- 80pc lack access to finance services
- Digicel launches mobile money service
- Fears that microfinance might not suit Fiji
- Nacola on the 'unbanked'
- Good things come in small packages: mobile money in Fiji
- Westpac for Social Welfare Recipients
- Electronic upgrade for welfare payments
- Digicel Continues Pacific Rollout Of Mobile Money Service With Tonga Launch
- Children to be taught money management
- RBF establishes National Financial Inclusion Taskforce
- National Financial Inclusion Taskforce holds first meeting
- Regional Training for Microfinance Supervisors
- UNCDF SmartAid Report now online
- Remittances to Samoa to become cheaper and faster
- Clicks across the country
- Building Partnerships with the Private Sector to Advance Branchless Banking
- MiCash
- Easy Transfer
- Practical Money Skills
- Insurance providers and their challenges
- Payments made easier for micro-financed
- Westpac goes rural banking
- VANWOD’s officer to attend Microfinance Training in Italy
- KlickEx, Digicel Pacific offer web-to-mobile wallet money transfers
- PNG Microbank signs on 100,000th customer
- Loans made easy with mobileSMK
- Remittance advise for festive season
- HFC signs up with M-PAiSA
- Insurance cover accessible via M-PAiSA
- Digicel Mobile Money enables customers to pay their electricity bills anytime,24/7
- DIGICEL EXPANDS MOBILE MONEY NETWORK
- Digicel launches mobile money service
- Mobile money deal
- AusAID and PFIP supports rural deepening of mobile money services in Fiji
- Cash is the mode
- Sellers learn of risk
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Photo Gallery
- Pacific Microfinance Week 2009
- Informal Information Exchange - Vanuatu
- Pacific Central Bank Financial Inclusion Working Group Meeting, February 2010
- Informal Information Exchange on Micro insurance in Fiji
- Fiji Financial Education Curriculum Development Project Launch 2011
- National Microfinance Workshop: Developing a Strategy for Financial Inclusion in Solomon Islands
- Launch of LICI Fiji's MicroLife Products
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