Can financial education help reduce poverty?
Poor people often borrow money to make ends meet, but their debts add a burden they struggle to pay back. As these people juggle with financial issues, surely better money …
How to measure the impact of financial education
In our second webinar, we gave some insights on this important but difficult question: how to measure the impact of financial education. The first challenge is that financial education is …
What should financial education be about?
Samira has been saving regularly over the years for her daughter’s education. Her sister, Bopha, calls her one evening – she has a cancer and not enough money to pay …
Embed financial education in other programmes
Financial education programmes for your clients Your target group is struggling to pay yearly expenses. Every year, most of them borrow from informal lenders to be able to pay for …
Finance in pictures: reflection over ten years of financial education
Reflections over 10 years of financial education: an exhibition was shown in Hong Kong and Phnom Penh in 2015 and Kinshasa in 2016 to challenge our views on finance in our lives. This exhibition is now available online: …
Critical thinking and mindfulness
Last November we triggered a long silence in our usually lively training room using cards printed on both sides (like the one displayed here): university students had just done their …
NGO: step by step guide to include financial literacy in your programmes
What do you want to achieve with your financial education project? Defining clear goals will make your project focused, measurable… and successful. For example, if your target group is heavily indebted, focusing the programme on …
Financial literacy through pictures
Whether urban, home, digital or rural, our landscapes are filled with ads: pictures nudging us to buy this, or use that service: lots of colours, a striking picture and a …
Reverse the knowledge balance: your clients already know a lot about money
Today, Mr. S., farmer and father of three, is attending a financial literacy workshop. As the facilitator introduces himself, Mr. S’s mind wanders. He left his wife and eldest son …