Digicel PNG makes another bold step to fostering financial inclusion in rural PNG, through a new arrangement between Digicel CellMoni and Kamapim Ltd. This strategic arrangement promises to bring digital financial and payment services to thousands of unbanked Papua New Guineans, particularly women and smallholder farmers who lack access to formal financial services. It will further enable rural producers, many of whom lack identity documents and live far away from banking infrastructures. The access to traditional financial services including sending and receiving money and making secure payments via Digicel CellMoni’s mobile money service. This innovative approach supports Kamapim Ltd’s mission to build transparent, regenerative, and equitable value chains, starting with the Vanilla sector. “Most women in the rural areas are excluded from the economy because they lack formal IDs and access to financial services. By integrating Digicel CellMoni’s digital wallet system with our traceable sourcing platform, we can offer farmers, especially women a safe, fast, and transparent way to be paid and empower them to be economic contributors,” said Nancy Irwin, Managing Director of Kamapim Ltd. She said through this partnership, farmers supplying vanilla and other high-value crops to Kamapim Ltd will be issued digital economic identities, allowing them to register their Digicel CellMoni wallet and receive mobile payments, build a digital financial history, and gain access to savings and other financial services such as paying for school fees or superannuation. This is particularly transformative in remote areas where formal banking is inaccessible or non-existent. “At Digicel Cellmoni, we are proud to partner with Kamapim Ltd to drive real change in communities that need it most. We believe digital inclusion is a pathway to economic empowerment, especially for farmers and women in rural PNG and we are more than happy to facilitate this through our strategic alliance with Kamapim Ltd,” said Thompson Sakyi, Managing Director at Digicel Cellmoni PNG. The pilot phase will be launched in Afore LLG, Oro Province and Boiga District, Madang Province with plans to scale across Kamapim’s wider farming network of 21,000+ smallholders by 2026. The integration will also support supply chain traceability, climate-smart agriculture, and gender-inclusive practices aligned with national and donor priorities for inclusive rural transformation.