The GSMA mWomen Programme works across the developing world and a centre for its research in the Pacific region is Papua New Guinea. One reason for this focus is that the country is one of the most isolated in the world. A recent article by the World Bank reports that the World Bank Group, together with other development partners, is helping introduce mobile competition to promote expansion of services with lower prices. With more mobile operators, two million more people in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands now have access to mobile phones and the life-enhancing benefits these can bring to women and men in the country. Read the article.

You can also catch up on last year’s report from the field in Papua New Guinea which contains first impressions of women’s wants and needs in the country and which was part of the research conducted for our latest research report, Striving & Surviving.