Our Events

Aflatoun International holds events and regional meetings to strengthen the Aflatoun network in each region, raise awareness of social and financial education, highlight the work of our partners, and continuously innovate the empowering of children and young people.

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Past Events

Aflatoun International’s New Strategy 2022-2026 Global Launch Event

ENERGISING THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EDUCATION

 

Aflatoun International is delighted to invite all our partners, friends, and supporters to the Global Launch of the new strategic plan that will guide us throughout 2022-2026. The event will take place online on March 3, 2022 at 11 am Central European Time.

 

Aflatoun pioneered social and financial education (SFE) fifteen years ago when financial education for children was still essentially taboo. In the years since, Aflatoun has worked with over 300 partner organisations and 40+ governments in over 100 countries. Research evidence has shown the positive impact of SFE in children and youth’s educational performance and financial habits.

 

Today, we believe Aflatoun remains uniquely positioned to bring essential life and financial skills to children and youth worldwide. The voices of children, our partners, and our stakeholders were at the centre of building our strategy for 2022–2026.

 

Over the next five years, by training over 250,000 teachers, growing the Aflatoun movement to 600 partner organisations and working towards national integration with governments and multilateral agencies in over 60 countries, we aim to reach 60 million children and youth.
The event is open for all those interested and will be broadcast in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.

 

Watch the video recording HERE

Join Our Online Panel Discussion!

On November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Aflatoun kicked off the campaign “Education Without Limits: Young women on the journey to empowerment” in order to showcase the impact stories of the “Elimu Haina Mwisho: Skills Development programme for Young Women through FDCs” project which was implemented in Tanzania by the local partner Karibu Tanzania Organization (KTO) and funded by the Mastercard Foundation. The campaign will end with the online panel discussion on December 16, 2021.

The panel will focus on innovative approaches in skills development programmes, including KTO’s approach to support young out-of-school women. During the panel, we will also discuss social and financial education’s contribution towards eliminating GBV, and the creation of a safe environment for women and girls to thrive economically and personally

The event was held on December 16, 2021 from 11:00 am CET.

Asia Learning Hours

Aflatoun International invites you to participate in “Asia Learning Hours” to learn about the Aflatoun Curriculum Supplements: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). The target participants for this event are Teachers and Trainers*.

Learn more about the SEL and WASH supplements here.

The trainers will be:

– Lemuel Bonete and Brian Lariche for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
– Pankaja Kshirsagar and Hazel Modino for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

The event was held on 7 – 8 December 2021 from 09:00 am to 12:00 pm CET.

2nd edition of Research days on financial Inclusion

“FINANCIAL INCLUSION, CRISES AND ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA” Launched in 2019 under the leadership of the African Center for Higher Studies in Management Sciences (CESAG), the first edition of Research days on Financial Inclusion (JRI) took place on the sidelines of the financial inclusion week organised by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) in the countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). The second edition of the JRI will be held from November 17 to 18, 2021 in Dakar under the theme: “Financial inclusion, Crises and Endogenous Development in Africa”. The 2021 edition of the JRI will be organized by CESAG in collaboration with the African School of Economics (ASE), Aflatoun International, and Développement international Desjardins (DID). Check out the Call for communication here and apply! More about the event here (In French).

Launch Webinar: Gender-Sensitive Global Citizenship and Life Skills Education for Youth

PARTNERING ON GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION AS A TOOLBOX FOR ADOLESCENT’S EMPOWERMENT

On September 30th, we hosted the first of a series of webinars under the Reach out to Asia (ROTA) – Aflatoun project “Gender-Sensitive Global Citizenship and Life Skills Education for Youth” implemented in Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, discussing the empowerment of girls by equipping them with skills in line with global citizenship education (GCED) framework.

This webinar focused on how the project plans to respond to the challenges faced by youth struggling with poverty, limited access to basic services, discrimination and violence, or other factors of marginalisation.

Watch the recording here.

Youth Empowerment & Employability: Best practices and experiences

1 in 10 youths are unemployed worldwide. In order to address this challenge, Aflatoun and its partners provide social and financial skills to children and youth worldwide. For World Youth Skills Day on July 15, 2021, together with the education technology nonprofit Solve Education!, we organised a webinar that gathers partners, governments, NGOs, funders, education experts to discuss youth employability, the digitisation of employability skills and the importance of skill-building for youth empowerment.

Click on the image to watch the recording!

Click on the image to watch the recording, and check out Solve Education! here.

2nd edition of Research days on financial Inclusion

The 2021 Regional Meeting for Anglophone Africa will provide an opportunity for network partners to get key insights in to the opportunities and achievements during 2021. More specifically, we will look at newly launched Financial Education and Financial Inclusion strategies. Additionally, we will take this opportunity to look at key innovations in the sector of Digital Education. Digital is the direction the world is going and as a network, we will look into opportunities to leverage innovations to reach the most vulnerable. As Aflatoun approaches the launch of the 2022-2026 strategy, this meeting will also be an opportunity to reflect on the engagement and collaboration within the partner network. In doing so participants will contribute to finding new ways to engage with partners in the network and the Aflatoun Secretariat.
Before kicking off the Regional Meeting, the Aflatoun Secretariat will present the key findings from the Aflatoun Strategy Survey and Focus Group Discussions conducted and completed by the Aflatoun Partner Network

Focus Group Discussion and Strategic Survey Presentation.
Date: 27 October
Duration: 11:00-13:00 CET

Part 1: Financial Education and Inclusion Strategies and Best Practices
Date: Tuesday 23 November
Duration:10:00-11:30 CET

Link to YouTube here .

Part 2: Digitisation and Digital Education
Date: Tuesday 23 November
Duration:15:00-16:30 CET

Link to YouTube here .

Part 3: Network Workshop
Date:25 November
Duration:10:00-12:00 CET

The full programme and the agenda will be available soon!

The Aflatoun Regional Meeting: Latin America & the Caribbean 2021

The event was aimed at facilitating discussion between teachers, managers, educational and financial authorities, private banks, international agencies, and NGOs on the importance of Financial Education, Entrepreneurship, and the Promotion of Sustainable Development for children and young people.

The event comprised three main activities:

 

Watch the recording here.

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The EDUCA, Ahorra y Emprende Fair (June 8-16): aimed at students at different levels. They will share their entrepreneurial experiences and reflect on financial education, entrepreneurship, gender equity, sustainable development, the culture of peace, and responsible citizenship. Participants: Aflatoun Network Organisations.

2

Regional Meeting of the Americas Network (June 17-18): aimed at discussing financial education, entrepreneurship and the promotion of sustainable development, and the state of the art in the region. The meeting is organized for teachers, managers, educational and financial authorities, private banks, international agencies, and organisations implementing or supporting financial education programmes. Participants: open to the general public.

3

Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (June 23-24): promoted by EDUCA México, it consists of two days of training for entrepreneurs on the design and execution of social and financial projects at an advanced level. Participants: students who participated in the “EDUCA Ahorra y Emprende Fair”.

Digital Learning Awareness Workshop

On 28th July 2021, we hosted a webinar for our partners and participants to learn about highlights in digital learning and to hear our strategy for the next 5 years. We presented our offerings and products available and ready to use, as well as recommended useful digital learning tools for training, teaching and collaboration.

To watch the recording, click here.

Aflatoun Day 2021

We celebrated our annual Aflatoun Day, which happens on the 25th March during Global Money Week, a little differently this year through an online showcase of our students and partners.

In the lead up, we organised several calls with students to hear their perspectives on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their lives, and how their governments can help them. Read their insights and the full statement here.

On Aflatoun Day itself, we hosted the awards ceremony of the Aflatoun Partners Resilience Challenge, highlighting outstanding stories from our partners on navigating the COVID-19 crisis and continuing to empower children and youth worldwide with social and financial education.

Despite the strains of this pandemic, Aflatoun International and our global network of partners adapted to the crisis and found creative solutions to ensure that every child and young person keeps receiving high quality social and financial education for their future empowerment.

To showcase their resilience to the challenges caused by COVID-19, our partners took part in the Aflatoun Partners Resilience Challenge! Read about the challenge here and watch their entries.