Global Financial Education Program is a client-oriented financial education curriculum to promote financial literacy among the poor. The curriculum will help clients to improve their:
Cash flow and budgeting skills
Management of financial services, including credit, savings and insurance
Financial negotiation skills
Effective use of bank services
Global Financial Education Program comprises the following components:
Financial Education Toolkit
CORE CURRICULUM
SPECIALIZED CURRICULUM
IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE
TRAINERS' GUIDES & TRAINING OF TRAINERS MANUALS
Budgeting: Use Money Wisely
Savings: You Can Do It!
Debt Management: Handle with Care
Bank Service: Know Your Options
Financial Negotiations: Communicate with Confidence
TRAINERS' GUIDES & TRAINING OF TRAINERS MANUALS
Young People: Your Future, Your Money
Remittances: Make the Most of Them
Risk Management and Insurance: Protect Your Family's future
Consumer Protection: Balancing Rights and Responsibilities
Introduction: The Rationale for Financial Education
Market Research Guidance
Outcomes Guidance
Adaptation Guidance
Adult Learning Principles and Curriculum Design for Financial Education
Working Papers
Market Research for Financial Education
Assessing the Outcomes of Financial Education
Who Can Use the Global Financial Education Program Curriculum?
Microfinance executives, practitioners and staff
Microfinance consultants and trainers
Microfinance networks
How is the Global Financial Education Program Curriculum Used?
Training of trainers who will instruct low-income households
Trainers working with low-income households
Self-study
How Can the Global Financial Education Program curriculum Benefit an Institution?
Using the Toolkit can lead to actionable results and make a difference to microfinance institutions:
Improved communication between microfinance institutions and their clients
Well-informed and engaged clients
Greater client satisfaction
Enhanced client use of microfinance services
Microfinance Opportunities 1701 K Street N.W., Suite 650 Washington, D.C. 20006 Tel: 202-721-0050 — Fax: 202-721-0010 — Email: info@mfopps.org
Microfinance Opportunities is registered as a 501(c)(3)non-profit organization.
