{"id":1251953,"date":"2022-11-16T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/16\/we-are-determined-to-help-raise-financial-literacy-to-drive-inclusion-ecobank-ghana\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:57:21","slug":"we-are-determined-to-help-raise-financial-literacy-to-drive-inclusion-ecobank-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/16\/we-are-determined-to-help-raise-financial-literacy-to-drive-inclusion-ecobank-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"We are determined to help raise financial literacy to drive inclusion-Ecobank Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) run by women have received financial education and training from Ecobank Ghana to handle important day-to-day financial issues such bookkeeping, basic accounting, budgeting, savings, and investments.<\/p>\n

The seminar was held to commemorate Ecobank Day, the bank\u2019s annual flagship CSR initiative that aims to give back to the communities where it lives, works, and serves.<\/p>\n

The focus of this year\u2019s Ecobank Day, according to Ecobank Ghana\u2019s Managing Director, Mr. Dan Sackey, was increasing financial literacy and financial inclusion, especially for women and young people in underserved communities.<\/p>\n

According to him, financial inclusion means having access to practical and reasonably priced financial products and services, such as payments, savings, loans for individuals and small businesses, and insurance, to satisfy one\u2019s requirements.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take financial inclusion and financial literacy very seriously because we understand that they can change people\u2019s lives. We are determined to help raise financial literacy, which in turn will drive financial inclusion in our local communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEcobank Ghana is committed to playing an important role in our communities as a meaningful contribution to the development of the African continent, in line with our overall corporate vision\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

He continued by saying that financial inclusion and financial knowledge were crucial enablers for lowering poverty and increasing prosperity.<\/p>\n

He said that the Ecobank family in Ghana hosted four simultaneous events in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi, and Tamale to provide people in the SME sector with information and skills to handle their finances properly as part of the bank\u2019s commitment to lowering these numbers.<\/p>\n

Dr. Edward Nartey Botchway, Executive Director and Head of Consumer Banking for Ecobank Ghana, revealed that the training was conducted concurrently in all 33 African nations where the bank has operations under the same theme of \u201cFinancial Inclusion For All; Leave No One Behind\u201d throughout the continent.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Botchway, it wasn\u2019t a one-time thing, and Ecobank would keep working with the participants to help them improve their circumstances in the small and medium-scale enterprise sector by using the knowledge and skills they learned through the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout properly documenting and tracking what you are doing, it is impossible to determine how well your firm is performing. Because of it, we consider this training to be important,\u201d he stated<\/p>\n

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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) run by women have received financial education and training from Ecobank Ghana to handle important day-to-day financial issues such bookkeeping, basic accounting, budgeting, savings, and investments. The seminar was held to commemorate Ecobank Day, the bank\u2019s annual flagship CSR initiative that aims to give back to the communities where it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[4017,3366,1325,85,28972,6968,423],"class_list":["post-1251953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-determined","tag-drive","tag-financial","tag-ghana","tag-inclusionecobank","tag-literacy","tag-raise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}