The main goal of the project was to encourage the empowerment and the participation of the most vulnerable women in their economic and social context. specific project objectives were objectives: 1. to provide the basic theoretical and practical tools necessary for a proper financial literacy of women living in vulnerable situations and economic and/or social difficulties; 2. to improve the knowledge of financial issues, especially those related to the management of own money and savings; 3. to strengthen women's self-esteem and their active participation in economic and financial processes within the community; 4. to raise community awareness of women's financial literacy needs. All project objectives were realized as planned. A total of 20 vulnerable women from Croatia and Italy were empowered to be fully integrated in their socio-economic context through the participation in two 4-day trainings which were organized in Rome (June 2022) and in Zagreb (October 2022). Through information events, final conference and media campaign relevant stakeholders and other community members were informed about the specific needs of this target group.
We decided to apply to this project to address the need of our beneficiaries- vulnerable women survivors of gender based violence and migrant women to learn new skills related to financial management and career management in order to gain independence and economic empowerment. according to current research across the EU, women have less financial education than men. the gender gap is particularly significant when it comes to financial literacy such as managing their budgets, savings or choosing convenient financial products. women survivors of gender-based violence are particularly vulnerable, since they were oftentimes under the control of their abusive partner and had no access to family finances. with this project we enabled 15 vulnerable women from Croatia and Italy to learn new skills related to financial management, savings, career managing, finding a better job, and using social capital. the two trainings they attended enabled them to set their long and short-term career goal s and to elaborate strategies and plans on how to realize them. a compendium containing relevant topics and outcomes of the trainings was created and disseminated to other interested stakeholders thorough partners’ websites and social media accounts.