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National Financial

Literacy Program

for Youth (NFLPY)

SBP in collaboration with NIBAF is
implementing the National Financial
Literacy Program for Youth (NFLP-Y) to
impart basic Financial Education to
Pakistani Youth. The NFLP-Y team
continued their efforts to promote financial
literacy through classroom trainings and
digital learning platforms and expanded its
outreach to include marginalized segments
of the society. While various online and F2F sessions understanding basic financial concepts. Over the
have been conducted over the quarter, the project’s previous quarter, nearly 50 free financial literacy training
flagship online financial literacy game, PomPak – Learn to sessions were provided to more than 150 hearing
Earn has also surpassed 630,000 enrollments. A brief impaired students in multiple districts including Bannu,
overview of activities of the project over the quarter is as Bhakkar, Dera Ismail Khan, Okara/Depalpur, Faisalabad,
below: Ghotki, Jhang, Layyah, Quetta, Thatta and Bahawalpur.

Financial literacy for Persons
with Disabilities Capacity Building for Women Entrepreneurs

NFLP-Y’s collaboration with Pakistan Poverty Alleviation NFLPY has joined hands with META to train and up-skill
Fund and Deaf Reach opened avenues for ‘People with Pakistani women entrepreneurs with an aim to foster
Disabilities’, the partnership primarily focuses on sustainability and resilience of women-led businesses in the
providing free of cost financial education to deaf students. country. The program is being implemented under the ‘Business
In the last few months, the project team successfully Resilience through Financial Education (BRFE)’ component of
conducted sessions in multiple districts of Pakistan for the Meta’s flagship women empowerment program
hearing impaired students. Under the partnership, NFLP- ‘SheMeansBusiness’. The project team conducted six virtual
Y’s level 2 financial literacy workbook ‘Anaar Ka Darakht’ training workshops, with Ms. Natasha Mehmood and Mr. Rahat
has also been transformed into Pakistan Sign Language Gul engaged as the main instructors. Till July 2022, over 350
to provide special children with more ease in women have been given financial management training.