Financial Literacy-Training the Trainers: helping financially vulnerable families

វគ្គបណ្តុះបណ្តាលគ្រូសម្របសម្រួល
ពីការគ្រប់គ្រងហិរញ្ញវត្ថុជាមូលដ្ឋានជួយដល់អតិថិជនរបស់អ្នកទប់ទល់នឹងការប្រឈមជាមួយនឹងបញ្ហាហិរញ្ញវត្ថុ

Financial Literacy-Training the Trainers:
helping financially vulnerable families
10-11 & 12 November 2015

Workshop highlights:

• Highly participatory
• Packed with training examples and awareness builders ready to use with your clients
• Behaviour focused and client-centred, and adapted to Cambodia context
• Wide variety of training programmes, short sessions and awareness builders 
• Empowering: your trainers learn to manage their own money to be able to train your clients and practise training during the workshop – includes a test to identify key learning points that participants have not understood by day 2.
• Free access to our online training database.

Course objective: 
Participants understand the main tools to better control expenses and debt and to save. They identify the challenges of becoming financially literate, especially the behaviour and social parts. They apply these tools to better manage their own money. They practise training examples that they can use straight away with your low income clients.

Who should attend?

• Local and International NGO staff,
• Social workers,
• Community workers,
• Micro-credit institutions officers,

Course contents

Day 1: learning the basics of financial literacy for low income families

• Analyse the consequences of not managing money through a story,
• Get a clear understanding of how debts grow and impact future expenses,
• Overview of simple money management main tools through games (planning next month and prioritising basic monthly expenses, tracking, controlling spending by using envelopes, tracking, following a plan despite emergencies, inflation…),
• Analyse how we spend/choose (social pressure, short term, emotional…),
• Practise planning and managing irregular/non-monthly expenses and save for emergencies and yearly expenses and analyse where to keep savings.

Day 2: helping our clients better manage their money

• Assess training needs and resistance: how to change habits (awareness building vs. training),
• Build effective programme: long term prevention and crisis solutions,
• Set relevant learning objectives and key learning steps to help our target groups climb the financial ladder and become less vulnerable,
• Addressing budget and time constraint challenges: how to integrate financial education in existing programmes (health, nutrition, GBV, livelihood...),
• Practise sessions: participants start drafting their training plan, select a training activity or awareness builder from day 1 and facilitate it,
• Training tips and  do’s and don'ts of financial education,
• Written test on financial concepts and participatory training.

Day 3: Building financially literate communities

• Test review: explain key points that are not assimilated yet,
• Involve families in money management,
• Practise communicating effectively and sensitively about money,
• Project management and decision taking applied to big expense (motorbike, wedding, move...),
• Controlling debt level: planning how to pay back before taking a new debt,
• Analyse how to manage irregular incomes,
• Quick introduction on business profit,
• Ethics: other challenges of money,
• What is wealth: exploring non-financial assets (health, education, attitude, relations…),
• Action plan, course evaluation, certificates and group photo.

Trainer’s profile: Sophie Paine (a+b=3- Founder and Managing Director)
Sophie holds a DECF (Qualified Accountant), a Master degree in business studies (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris), a post-graduate in finance and banking (Paris-Dauphine) and a diploma in Islamic Finance (ETHICA). She has worked in financial management and accounting in international corporations and non-profit organisations for more than 15 years. She has facilitated numerous training workshops around Asia, and in USA and Africa. Since 2005, a+b=3’s programmes have reached more than 20,000 people. Our mission is to help people make better decisions with money to have a more harmonious and healthier life. This workshop will be co-facilitated in Khmer by a VBNK trainer. www.aandbmake3.com 

Our Approach:

participatory, group activities, case studies, training demonstration and practise sessions.

Why you can’t miss this workshop:

• Why you can’t miss this workshop:
• Learn how to help your clients reduce their financial vulnerability ,
• Learn how to include financial education in context and engage your clients,
• Offer holistic financial education workshops.
• Gain confidence by practising facilitating,
• Address your clients’ reluctance to change their financial habits,
• Improve your workshops’ attendance and measure their impact.

Impact your clients’ lives! 

REGISTER

Date:          10-11 & 12 November 2015 8:00-17:00 (including a 90 minute lunch break)

Fee:            US$195 (lunch, refreshment, training material and certificate from a+b=3 included)

Venue:        VBNK, #23, Street 554, Boung Kok 1, Toul Kork, PO Box 2307, Phnom Penh

Language:  English and Khmer, Information in Khmer Tel: : 023 885 805, 023 885 815

Deadline for registration: November 1st 2015 Early bird discount: October 17th 2015 ($20 off). Group discount (3 and more participants – please ask us).

Inquiries : info@aandbmake3.com , REGISTER ONLINE

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COURSE TITLE	DATE	ORGANIZER
Financial Literacy-ToT: helping financially vulnerable families New	10-11 & 12 Nov	a+b=3
Microbusiness Training the Trainers New	17-18 & 19 Nov	a+b=3

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