Centre plans to work together with banks on loans

The Centre for Excellence in Financial Inclusion (CEFI) wants to partner with financial institutions to provide lending and implementing markets for farmers’ project.
Cefi officials met representatives of Bank South Pacific, Westpac, MiBank, Women’s Microbank, People’s Microbank, Kada Poroman Micro Finance, Nasfund Contributors Savings and Loans and East New Britain Savings and Loans recently.
At the workshop were representatives from the productive partnership in agriculture project and World Bank. The workshop also featured presentations from the Department of Agriculture and Livestock deputy acting secretary Regina Nukudj and Market for Village Farmers Project manager Robert Lutulete.
Thierry Mahieux, a consultant with International Fund for Agriculture Development, spoke on digital financial services for agriculture-innovation in agriculture lending and risk mitigation via zoom.
Cefi’s executive director Saliya Ranasinghe said Cefi would like to be partners with the institutions in implementing the market for village farmers’ project.