ABOUT GMW

Global Money Week (GMW) is a global awareness-raising campaign on the importance of ensuring that young people, from an early age, are gradually acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitude and behaviours necessary to make sound financial decisions and ultimately achieve financial well-being. The ultimate goal of GMW is to ensure that all children and youth have access to high-quality financial education, they learn about money matters and are able to take smart financial decisions that can improve future financial resilience and financial well-being.

Initially developed by Child & Youth Finance International (CYFI) in 2012, the campaign is coordinated globally by the OECD International Network on Financial Education (OECD/INFE) since 2020 and organised nationally by a wide range of stakeholders. Participating organisations engage young people during GMW through a variety of financial education activities in person and on line which can include financial education workshops, trainings and seminars, visits to money museums and financial institutions, public debates and competitions, financial literacy games and fairs, and much more. In many countries, financial education messages are broadcast and disseminated via a variety of channels including social media, websites, TV, radio, printed media and other online channels. Over the years, many of the countries represented in the OECD/INFE have joined the GMW campaign.

“Joining GMW activities was very helpful and educational. It gave me a lot of beneficial experiences, such as how to make a financial plan, how to achieve goals and why we should save our money. In conclusion, joining GMW activities made me realise that we can achieve big goals if we save our money from the very beginning.”

─ Mohsin, student from Sultan Sharif Ali Secondary School, Brunei Darussalam, GMW2017