The UN Capital Development Fund’s (UNCDF) flagship Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme designed and supported projects to increase access to and usage of financial services for Pacific Islanders. All interventions were designed in such a way that all stakeholders involved were part of the solution.

UNCDF incentivised the development of:

• enabling policies and regulations,
• invested in financial literacy and
• boosted the design of innovative financial products that meet the needs of Pacific users.

In 2010, the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme, together with the Australian Pacific Training Coalition (APTC), successfully developed materials, trained teachers and launched a pilot project in technical vocational education and training (TVET) centers in Fiji.

Read about the project, including lessons learned, in this ‘legacy’ brief by the UNCDF team on the ground.