NGO- Assessing training needs
In step 1, you have defined your project objectives and scope. In step 2, you need to find out what your clients would need to learn and do differently in order to (depending on your project goal) get out of debt, save, open a bank account…
The needs assessment will help you get a clearer picture on:
- What issues your clients face- and more specifically, what financial issues they have
- How they currently manage money
- Quantitative data on their spending pattern/saving/debt
- How available and open they are to attend a programme on money matters
- What training need they spontaneously identify for themselves
- simple needs assessment – interview
- focus group questions
- questionnaire
Note that questions are not only on facts but also behaviour. Why? Because Financial Education aims at changing behaviour: the point is not to spend money on a programme teaching what is a budget... but investing on a programme which empowers people to use a budget to get a better standard of life.
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