Purpose: Mutual learning and exchange of knowledge and experience in improving financial literacy in the region.
Components:
- research: data collection and analysis of the level of financial literacy of the adult population, analysis of regional experience in implementing national financial literacy strategies
- implementation: study trips and online seminars to support the implementation of national financial literacy strategies
- exchange of experience: face-to-face annual meetings to assess progress and manage workflow.
Products implemented for the NBU, and key events:
- Expert advice was provided by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Finance, MoneyWise, the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, and the central banks of Italy and France on how to develop, launch, and promote the financial literacy website Harazd.
- The workshops Financial Education: Teacher Training, and Inclusion of Financial Education in the School Curriculum: Experience of the Region were held.
- The NBU team’s participation in the project’s annual meetings was supported.
- An exchange of experience was conducted with the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina in implementing the Train the Trainer project for students and youth.
- Expert advice was provided on how to draft the National Strategy for Financial Literacy Development until 2030.
- Work began on the development of the OECD Information Note on Mechanisms to Finance the Implementation of the National Strategy for Financial Literacy Development until 2030 in Ukraine.