Women constitute approximately 50% of the country’s 7 million people but disproportionally represent less than 30% of total financial services portfolio in the country. They represent an untapped population of economically active low-income businesswomen, who are also household financial managers, making a large volume of transactions. All participating commercial banks and micro banks concurred that women represent an important market segment for them and at today’s workshop, made a commitment to increase outreach to women to 50% of total portfolio by 2015.
How Can We Deepen Womens Access to Financial Services

Line Waelgaard. Papua New Guinea. Winnie Weoa. This shows the daily life of village women in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.