Empowering women

During PNG Women’s Day, the Australian High Commission highlighted how Incentive Fund is contributing towards empowering women across PNG.

Across all Incentive Fund projects, 80% of projects are empowering women and girls.

Since 2015, the Incentive Fund has provided livelihoods and sanitation training for over 3000 women, worked with 17 partner organizations to improve how they include and work with women and girls, and people with disability.

These were the words of Her excellency, President Dr Hilda Heine, of Republic of Marshall Islands during her keynote at the opening of the 13th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women in Fiji last night.

“We simply cannot afford to leave out, or in some cases exclude, half the population of our economies,” President Heine said.

“It is bad economic policy no matter which way you look at it.”

“The staggering imbalances in our economies between men and women clearly reflects why progressing gender equality has been slow.’