For this second week with GIZ Laos and the support of Australian AID and Bank of Laos, and our partners EDC, we are running the same Training the Trainers but this time in Luang Namtha, in the North of Laos, with other participants. Today was split in three parts: Better understand what financial education is…
This morning participants practised facilitating the first module of the GIZ-AFP business literacy programme that they experienced yesterday. This gave the opportunity to give feedback on some facilitating techniques. Then they discovered module 2 that aims to encourage villagers to find new business/income-generating ideas. Through a story, the module addresses the need to assess who…
After looking at a few photos of other programmes that have implemented our programmes, facilitators turned into small businesses and ran a little shop – the best way to learn the challenges of running a business. Participants then put on their “villagers’ hats” and experienced the first module of the business literacy a+b=3 has designed…
Second day of a five day Training of Trainers in Pakse, Laos, organised by GIZ-AFP, sponsored by Bank of the Lao-PDR, GIZ-AFP and Australian Aid and co-facilitated with our Laos partners EDC. Today, facilitators practised facilitating different examples of financial literacy programmes for different target groups: farmers with yearly income, factory workers with a monthly…
First day of a five day Training of Trainers in Pakse, Laos, organised by GIZ-AFP, sponsored by Bank of the Lao-PDR, GIZ-AFP and Australian Aid and co-facilitated with our Laos partners EDC. After a brief inaugural speech by the Bank of Lao-PDR, this first day introduced financial education, the importance of needs assessment and building…
After focusing on business finance/bookkeeping on day 1 and family expenses on day 2 – and planning on both days – today participants worked on how to improve their business: who their customers are, what they want, and also cash management and ethics issues. Discussions were very lively. Then we concluded this full half day…
Third day of our Training the Trainers: participants experienced the second module of the farmers’ training, which focuses on how to avoid debt (budget to pay back debt, managing expenses such as festivals and big purchase decisions), and in the afternoon we prepared tomorrow’s pilot training with farmers.
Today, Outspan and Lao Women Union’s staff who participate to our 5-day Training the Trainers organised by EDC, practiced facilitating the first module of the coffee farmers’ training. Apart from feedback on facilitation skills, this was also the opportunity to fine-tune some parts of the training that we plan to facilitate with coffee farmers on…