Many rural households in Vanuatu are without access to secure and
convenient financial services. In some remote areas, government workers
and teachers who receive salary payments into their bank accounts must
make expensive, time-consuming trips to the nearest NBV branch to
collect their money. Local farmers have resorted to burying their money
in ‘Milo’ tins in the ground, rather than face long trips to town to
deposit money. To make banking easier for rural communities, the bank has developed an e-Banking Project using solar power and data communication through the nation's mobile GSM network.
As part of our committment to helping developing nations with their online strategy e-CBD created the website and content management system for NBV using a similar platform to our work with the Government of Kenya.