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Contributes to development
Focusing on budgeting, expenditures, savings, investment, borrowing, financial rights and obligations, the training is delivered to five segments namely high school students, university students, young adults, entrepreneurs and farmers. One-on-one training is supported by online training. Through actively used Twitter and Facebook accounts involving 305,000 followers, an average of 1.5 million interactions occur per month. Mobile budget and savings application aims to increase the inclusiveness of the project. The application was downloaded by nearly 93,000 smart phone users.
“I Can Manage My Money” contributes to 6 Sustainable Development Goals by its overall objective, target audience, training content and partnership structure. The project by its training content contributes to the Goals “Quality Education,” “Responsible Consumption and Production,” and “No Poverty.”
Implemented by UNDP and Habitat Association in cooperation, with support from 22 banks, “I Can Manage My Money” supports the Sustainable Development Goal “Partnership for the Goals” through harmonious cooperation among project partners and alliance of 22 banks to increase financial literacy.
They will manage their budgets correctly
Stating that developing the youth’s skills in managing financial resources in the sustainable development process will contribute significantly to the national economy, President of Habitat Association Mr. Sezai Hazır added: “We provide financial literacy to the youth everywhere we can reach them out. Based on the thinking that youth who manage their money can also correctly manage their lives, we aim that young people who achieve their goals more easily can take larger part in socio-economic life. We deliver financial literacy training to KOSGEB trainees for entrepreneurship. It is important that youngsters who are at the beginning of their entrepreneurship venture can ensure financial sustainability for their enterprises. We help young entrepreneurs manage the finances of an enterprise, draw up financial statements, and read such statements correctly to make correct plans for their ventures. Sustainable agriculture is one of the top agenda items for the future 10 years in the area of sustainable development. We prepared a special content for farmers to manage their financial resources more accurately. Based on this content, we provide training at village coffeehouses, village halls, fields and village squares.”