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 beneath 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, notably ladies, by an interactive on-line course on primary abilities 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 reminiscent of entrepreneurship, insurance coverage, financial savings, and funding.
“GIZ seeks to create a future price dwelling around the globe, we hope to offer an interesting and sturdy 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 providers 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 developed 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 will be accessed by www.atingi.org.
Ms Florence Hope-Wudu, Managing Companion, 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.