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Mobilisation created change
Indicating that “I Can Manage My Money” spread across 81 provinces, reached 1 million people and created change, Ms. Merve Tezel, Visa Turkey General Director, said: “We see through our impact analyses that the training considerably improves financial knowledge and competencies of individuals. Looking at the financial literacy level in Turkey, we see that awareness and knowledge were built on financial literacy. All these results demonstrate that creating change is possible. Work undertaken by the public and private sectors have great impact on improving financial literacy; big distance has been covered through, say, a mobilisation. We pioneered a change in the society through this venture we started 9 years ago. We created this change collectively with our banks, partners and volunteer young people who delivered the training in 81 provinces. Our objective for the immediate future is to further scale up by including those segments who need training on financial matters. I truly thank our business partners, our banks which displayed an exemplary sectoral mobilisation, and our young people.”
International certification for training
The training content of “I Can Manage My Money” was approved by the Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) which worked across the world to increase the financial literacy of children and youth. The assessment was made against the international standards set by the CYFI Education Working Group composed of representatives from such international organisations as UNICEF and OECD, civil society organisation and trainers. The training under “I Can Manage My Money” was assessed in terms of both content and training methods, and awarded this important certification.
Training for farmers
Last year, financial training was initiated for farmers. Training includes managing separately individual budget, family budget and business budget; keeping regular records of expenditures; savings, investment, correct borrowing and protection against risks. Training is delivered voluntarily by students in agriculture faculties, employees of provincial and district directorates of food, agriculture and livestock, employees of chambers of agriculture and farmers. More than 104,000 farmers were delivered individual training in 1,706 villages in 59 provinces. It is aimed to reach out 130,000 farmers by the end of 2018.