Government officers from the East New Britain Provincial Government (ENBPG) are now certified Training of Trainers (TOT) under the Center for Excellence in Financial Inclusion (CEFI).
The officers from Kokopo, Gazelle and Rabaul districts graduated on Tuesday, December 6th after undergoing a three weeks-long training in Kokopo.
The 65 participants covered two modules; savings and budgeting.
CEFI principal trainer, Jill Pijui facilitated the training while representatives from CEFI Special Project Manager, Jeremiah Wenogo were present to witness the graduation and present the certificates.
Division of Commerce advisor, Rosemary Murure said the training is the first so far in the province following the signing of MOU between the ENBPG and CEFI last year.
“If ENB is talking about ward focus development than financial inclusion is a basic financial management tool for our ordinary people in the villages” she said.
Mrs Murure also challenged them to go back to their own wards and run similar financial literacy training.
Mr Wenogo explained that the training is not another normal training but it is derived from a national government policy and one of the key strategy is that CEFI has to deliver is the financial literacy training.
The financial literacy training is one of the major activities among other activities CEFI is rolling out and urged all to make use of the skills and knowledge to others and in their wards.