GIZ Ghana on Friday?launched free on-line monetary literacy coaching programme to empower Ghanaian ladies.
The programme dubbed: “?Making Remittances Work for You,” is below the Programme Migration and Diaspora, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Financial Cooperation and Improvement (BMZ).
The e-learning programme goals to teach individuals, significantly ladies, via an interactive on-line course on primary expertise to handle their remittances from the diaspora productively.
The capacity-building measure is being carried out by the Deutsche Gesellschaft for Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Ghana.
Mr Guskowski, Head of Sustainable Financial Improvement at GIZ Ghana, stated on-line modules had already been designed to cowl diaspora cash transfers on related business-related areas akin to entrepreneurship, insurance coverage, financial savings, and funding.
“GIZ seeks to create a future price dwelling around the globe, we hope to supply an enticing and strong on-line coaching product for ladies in remittance-receiving households, and to ship this efficiently to a pilot cohort of girls,” he stated.
He stated that the programme would assist enhance the abilities and confidence of girls in utilizing digital monetary companies to speculate parts of remittances for sustainable financial growth.
Remittance flows and their utilization are gaining extra traction in worldwide discourses on migration and sustainable growth.?
Remittances have advanced right into a dependable supply of funds for accelerating human growth, monetary inclusion, and productive funding.
The product is on GIZ’s e-learning platform, Atingi, and may be accessed via www.atingi.org.
Ms Florence Hope-Wudu, Managing Accomplice, Purple Almond Consulting Service, stated the concentrate on ladies was as a result of they carried a heavier burden in balancing work and household.
The platform, she acknowledged, would allow ladies to turn into financially literate and enhance their information on the necessity to inculcate the behavior of financial savings.