A new generation of young Fijian women like Payal Paddy are breaking down gender barriers to build their own businesses. They’ll be doing this with the support of a new partnership between Good Return and the Market Development Facility, an Australian Government initiative implemented by Palladium. The partners have a mission to develop sustainable and accessible financial products for women-led MSMEs in Fiji.

Ms. Meas Sarom is an entrepreneur at heart - always seeking further opportunities to build her business and create opportunities for her community around her. Thanks to the partnership between Cambodian microfinance institution Chamroeun and Good Return’s Impact Investment fund, women like Meas can access finance and technical support to build a sustainable business model and drive a women-led local economy.

Our new inclusive banking award will reward FSPs in the Asia-Pacific for their commitment to meeting the needs of their community of customers.

Good Return and The Good Business Foundation announce a three year partnership to reduce inequality, by investing in an inclusive recovery across the Asia Pacific.

Ethical investing starts with applying your personal ethical standards to your money decisions. It can help you ensure your money is invested in businesses that will help make the world a better place.

Good Return has signed a significant new partnership agreement with the Solomon Islands Central Bank to help build a strong, inclusive and stable financial sector.

Meet Aulia, a young agribusiness entrepreneur, who is determined to build opportunity for women in her community.

After struggling to access formal banking, Aminah is now building her farming business thanks to a loan and training from our Indonesian partner CROWDE.

Your donations to our Nepal appeal will help bring financial support and education to people struggling from the economic impacts of the covid pandemic.

Giving women an active role in the economy is not just an act of empowerment, but a crucial part of economic growth.

Confidence building and specialist skills training are key to the inclusion of people with a disability into the economy.

We need to take urgent action to ensure the positive efforts into reducing poverty over the past twenty years are not undone by the pandemic.

The World Bank estimates an additional 24 million people throughout the Asia Pacific will be affected by poverty as a direct result of the pandemic.

In Australia, we expect our governments to financially support us during covid. But what happens in places where this support is much more difficult to access?

Our trainers in Nepal won’t let a long journey by foot stop them from delivering our financial education programs.

If you have ever read an article on community development or microfinance, you will recognise the terms ‘financial capability development’ and ‘financial education’. Often used interchangeably, these terms represent very different concepts.

We recently met with our Cambodian loan partner, Chamroeun Microfinance, and visited some branch offices and local villages to get a sense of the loan process, from finding out about the financial service to final approval.

Disability is a cause and a consequence of poverty. This means, if you are living with a disability, you are more likely to live in poverty, and if you live in poverty you are more likely to develop a disability. But the cycle between disability and poverty can be broken.

One of the key issues that we need to overcome is the recognition of multi-dimensional vulnerability - or simply, people that are discriminated against for more than one reason, all at once.