Youth Financial Empowerment Conference 2023

ABOUT

Youth Financial Empowerment Conference is a platform that we have created in order to showcase and recognize the informal and formal youth enterprises that are deprived of financial literacy and financial empowerment. We feel that if they are nurtured to innovate socially they will become enlightened public servants, instrumental drivers of corporate social investments into their communities, social entrepreneurs, social development researchers, etc.

The motivation for launching this financial ecosystem is ensuring that the culture of financial innovation is inculcated into the fabric of the marginalized community traders and youth entrepreneurs integrated with youth lead savings groups and stockels.

The Youth Financial Empowerment Conference will have primary Segments with each segment having its aligned activities and objectives:-

Objectives:

• Build a bridge between financial education and financial inclusion initiatives of

various networks and to communicate and share ideas and policy priorities

between these different platforms;

• Create a platform for the exchange of ideas and sharing of innovations and best practices for the advancement of youth financial inclusion, financial digital

education and the delivery of youth financial services;

• Discuss national policy and Public-Private Partnership initiatives for youth

financial capability through a collaborative policy development process in the

language of the Youth today. eg Conduct of financial Institution (COFI) Bill and

Inter-governmental Financial Working Group (IFWG)

During the Conference topics of discussion will include:

• Digital finance and mobile money for youth;

• Financial consumer protection frameworks for young people;

• Financial inclusion of young women and youth ;

• Financial education and inclusion of vulnerable youth especially in

townships.

• The importance of data collection on youth financial access and financial

literacy;

• Enhancement of entrepreneurship skills among the informal and formal

youth traders;

• Programmes to develop and empower youth financially and foster socially responsible economic citizens, and other themes.

The Youth Financial Empowerment Conference was developed and piloted in 2020 with a central focus on Community Economic Development Initiatives and supporting Local formal and informal Enterprise Development, based on the economic issues magnified by COVID-19.

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