UN Women Papua New Guinea says it plans to introduce women-only buses in Port Moresby to protect women from violence and sexual harassment.
The organisation recently conducted a series of focus groups and found more than half of the 124 women surveyed felt unsafe travelling on the city's buses.
A spokeswoman, Julie Bukikun, says the pilot scheme would be introduced early next year and she believes it will make a difference.
"We'd like to introduce it, first of all, to at least address the safety issue for women and girls but in the long-run hopefully through an intervention like this create awareness of the problem within the city and start getting attention for other stakeholders to address this issue and hopefully a reduction of violence - not only against women but men and other groups as well."
Julie Bukikun says the pilot will run for six to 12 months and then be reviewed.
