CYFI’s 3rd Annual Regional Meeting for Europe and Central Asia (ECA) will bring together policy makers and financial service providers from the region to discuss innovative ways to responsibly and sustainably include children and youth in their national economies
Youth to Advise Policy-Makers on their Economic Future
CYFI’s 3rd Annual Regional Meeting for Europe and Central Asia (ECA) will bring together policy makers and financial service providers from the region to discuss innovative ways to responsibly and sustainably include children and youth in their national economies.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands – The 3rd Annual Regional Meeting for Europe and Central Asia (ECA) will be hosted by the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia in hotel Aleksandar Palace, Skopje, Macedonia from October 2-3, 2014. Regional leading policy-makers, financial institutions, experts, practitioners and innovators who are engaged in the issues of children and youth’s financial access, financial inclusion and financial education, employability and entrepreneurship opportunities will attend to share success stories and challenges. The objective of the meeting is to strengthen and align financial inclusion, Economic Citizenship Education and entrepreneurship initiatives for youth in the region.
Senior representatives from Ministries of Education, Ministries of Finance, Central Banks, children's rights organizations, multi-lateral agencies, and educational and financial institutions are confirmed to attend.
65 children and youth from across Europe and Central Asia will present to the policy-makers their action points for creating appropriate and sustainable youth economic opportunities. By ensuring youth are included as active participants in the decision-making process we believe that the policies shaped will be more youth-focused and inclusive, and the youth themselves will be more inclined to agree with the policies as they helped create them.
About Child and Youth Finance International
Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) aims to develop a generation that will be able to prevent future financial crises by increasing the financial education, financial access, employability, and entrepreneurship skills of children and youth.
Launched in April 2012, the Child and Youth Finance Network has already expanded to 125 countries and reached more than 18 million children. Our international and regional events result in policy changes, and are the only events in the world where children contribute to setting the global agenda.