Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference
Financial Education for Adolescent Girls
This paper conducts a landscape assessment of organizations delivering or facilitating financial education programs, identifies the purpose of the financial education, reviews the associated curricula (when available), understands target groups, and analyzes content and delivery. These findings and recommendations are then used to inform future approaches on how to extend financial education to adolescent girls.
Authors
Carmen Morcos and Jennefer Sebstad
Abstract
Assets provide a foundation of resources that girls can use throughout their lives to reduce vulnerabilities and protect against risks, while at the same time expanding opportunities and providing a strong foundation for longer-term independence, control and economic security. Adolescence is a prime time to engage girls in programs and activities in order to build their social, human, financial and physical assets.
A number of organizations' approaches to extending financial services are examined, with organizations ranging from intermediaries providing curricula and training of trainers to on-the-ground organizations directly delivering training to participants.
Keywords
Youth, young people, children, financial education, non-financial services
