This case study documents learning from Fondation Zakoura Microcredit's (FZMC, or Zakoura) “Expanding Financial Services to Vulnerable Youth in Morocco,” or LYKOM (which means “for you” in Arabic), project.
From 2006–2009, Save the Children and Fondation Zakoura Micro-Crédit (Zakoura) partnered to implement a youth financial services and livelihoods promotion project called “Linking Youth with Knowledge and Opportunities in Microfinance,” or LYKOM. The program included financial and business literacy training, savings promotion, and access to credit for youth businesses. This case study examines the challenges Save the Children and Zakoura faced and the ways the institutions sought to address these challenges.
The SEEP Practitioner Learning Program (PLP): Reaching Scale in Youth Financial Services, conducted in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, seeks institutions currently providing or facilitating access to financial services for young people to participate in a unique program.
Under the innovative new Youth-Inclusive Financial Services Program (YFS-Link), Making Cents International has designed a ground-breaking new survey on youth-inclusive financial services for youth-serving organizations, financial serving providers, microfinance networks and associations, training and technical assistance providers, and a variety of supporting organizations such as funders and researchers.
These guidelines illustrate how microfinance can effectively support the elimination and prevention of child labour under certain circumstances, and they describe when the local context is not appropriate for microfinance. They provide guidance to organizations involved in eliminating child labour about how to utilize this tool so that households continue to have access to financial services after a donor-sponsored project has ended.
Making Cents International invites you to a half-day, hands-on session where you can learn how to adapt field-tested enterprise development curriculum resources to your specific youth programming needs. This workshop takes place one day before the Global Youth Enterprise Conference.
Featured curricula include:
EcoVentures International is hosting a series of workshops to assist organizations engaged in or interested in youth livelihoods programming.
Microfinance Opportunities invites you to a one-day training on our new curriculum for youth, Young People: Your Future, Your Money, developed by the Global Financial Education Program (GFEP) as part of our nine-module participatory curriculum package. The workshop will be presented in four chapters: managing money, financial services, financial negotiations, and earning money.
The SEEP Network is seeking a facilitator for the Innovations in Youth Financial Services PLP. The PLP engages microenterprise practitioners in a collaborative learning process that combines a small-grant program with an intensive small-group facilitated-learning process aimed at addressing learning at three levels: the individual organization, the PLP group, and the industry at large.
Term: 40-50 days per year over 3 years (August 2009-July 2012)
This field manual by the Women’s Refugee Commission has been developed to provide practitioners with usable information and helpful tools so that they can design and implement more effective livelihood programs — programs that are based on market demand and are contextually appropriate; programs that build on the existing skills and experience within the target population; and programs that enhance the dignity and options for the displaced.
