Resources on social finance
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ILO Social finance
ILO empowers microfinance staff to promote financial literacy among hosts and refugees
12 February 2024
The cadre of trainers trained on ILO's renowned financial education curriculum will strengthen the capacity of financial service providers to educate hosts and refugees and improve their access to financial services.
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Presentation
Risk of child labour in microfinance: findings from the ILO and 60 Decibels
10 August 2023
Approximately 160 million children worldwide (almost 1 in 10) are in child labour. The ILO deploys a range of tools and approaches to combat this scourge, including access to finance. The logic is that, if parents have access to enterprise training and appropriate financial services, they can increase household income and manage risks more effectively, and perhaps not have to resort to child labour. But, in some circumstances, access to finance can have the opposite effect, and actually create a demand for child labour. Research by the ILO's Social Finance Programme and 60Decibels yielded interesting findings about the impact and risk of child labour in microfinance.
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Instructional material
Financial education for garment workers in Cambodia – Trainee’s booklet
05 June 2023
This trainee’s booklet, developed in partnership with Better Factories Cambodia, supports participants in the ILO Financial Education course. It targets workers in the garment factories in Cambodia who wish to improve their money management. This booklet introduces basic knowledge, skills and tools related to earning, spending, budgeting and using financial services such as savings, credit, money transfers and insurance. It also includes information on how workers can safely receive, access and use their wages through digital means.
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Document
Financial education
05 April 2023
Financial education is key to ensuring that people, regardless of their income or social status, not only have access to relevant financial services but also know how to use them effectively. Since 2006, the ILO Global Programme on Financial Education has been involved in over 35 interventions worldwide, assisting disadvantaged and underserved populations in making informed financial choices and changing their financial behaviour for a better future.
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Instructional material
Financial education for micro, small and informal businesses in the Philippines – Trainee’s booklet
19 December 2022
This trainee's booklet on financial education targets primarily micro, small and informal business owners of the Philippines who wish to improve their digital money management. The booklet introduces basic knowledge, skills and tools related to earning, spending, budgeting and using financial services such as savings, credit, money transfers and insurance. The trainee's booklet was produced under the “Bringing Back Jobs Safely under the COVID-19 crisis in the Philippines” project, with the generous financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
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Instructional material
Financial education for national and migrant workers – Trainee’s booklet
13 October 2022
This ILO Financial Education trainee’s booklet, developed with support from Better Work Jordan, supports training participants throughout their learning journey. It primarily targets local and migrant workers, employed in factories of Bangladesh, who wish to improve their money management. This booklet introduces basic knowledge, skills and tools related to earning, spending, budgeting and using financial services such as savings, credit, money transfers and insurance. It also incorporates key messages on how workers could receive, access and use their wages safely through digital means.
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Instructional material
Financial education for national and migrant workers – Trainee’s booklet
13 October 2022
This ILO Financial Education trainee’s booklet, developed with support from Better Work Jordan, supports training participants throughout their learning journey. It primarily targets local and migrant workers, employed in factories of Jordan, who wish to improve their money management. This booklet introduces basic knowledge, skills and tools related to earning, spending, budgeting and using financial services such as savings, credit, money transfers and insurance. It also incorporates key messages on how workers could receive, access and use their wages safely through digital means.