Financial Literacy Training Solutions Package for the World Food Programme

In partnership with the UN Capital Development Fund, and on the World Food Programme's request, the RIL delivered a Matchmaker package on financial literacy training solutions. Financial literacy training is vital for short-term sound use of cash-based transfers and longer-term for inclusive development, equitable empowerment, and financial inclusion. The Covid-19 pandemic presents new challenges in delivering training with safety restrictions that require limited human contact. In-person training puts the trainer and the community at risk of the disease spreading. Numerous internet-based solutions exist to deliver learning, communities affected by the digital divide with limited access to the internet or smartphone device ownership risk being left behind. For instance, the proportion of the population owning a phone in Uganda is 71%, but this proportion drops to 43% among refugees. Hence, Organizations like the UN's World Food Programme are looking to continue delivering training on financial literacy, are searching for innovation in process, method, and technology to implement training with limited human contact under Covid-19 safety restriction.

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