About CYFI Child & Youth Finance International (CYFI) works with organizations to create and strengthen systems, structures and policies to ensure financial inclusion of children and youth, protect them from vulnerabilities, build their livelihoods and entrepreneurship skills, and empower them with financial knowledge. CYFI’s goal is to ensure the Economic Citizenship Education, access to quality financial services, skill-matched jobs, and the ability to save become rights for all young people. To achieve this, CYFI initiated the global Child and Youth Finance Movement to advocate Economic Citizenship of children and youth around the world. Launched in April 2012, the Movement set the ambitious goal of reaching 100 million children in 100 countries by 2015. To date, CYFI has already surpassed its first target – reaching 125 countries and 18 million children – and is well on track to exceeding its initial goal. CYFI works with financial institutions, banking associations, ministries of finance and education, bi- and multilateral agencies, (I)NGOs, academic institutions, and technical experts to ensure the successful rollout of child and youth friendly banking products and high quality Economic Citizenship Education programs, and related policies and regulation.
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