Publications

Financial empowerment is an approach to poverty reduction that focuses on improving the financial security of low-income people. This brief outlines the framework for this approach including proven interventions that are helping low-income people participate and feel included in our financial system.

This brief provides recommendations on the next phase of the Ontario government’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. It focuses on the Financial Empowerment approach to improving the financial security of low and modest‐income households.

Read SEDI's recommendations for financial literacy programming and incentivized savings for youth in care in the Opportunities Account for Youth in Care Final Report (July 2013). The report captures the results of a pilot project which sought to equip youth in care with the financial literacy knowledge, skills and behaviour required for them to thrive as successful adults.

This infographic reflects findings from the Financial Literacy for Ontarians project. The Centre for Financial Literacy provided financial literacy training to more than 75 Ontario community organizations serving Aboriginal Peoples, newcomers to Canada, youth, women, and families with children through this project.

In 2010, SEDI launched the financial Literacy Evaluation Project (FLEP), a pan-Canadian strategy to promote the effective monitoring and evaluation of community-based financial literacy activities. This report covers findings on financial evaluation in Canada.

This report assesses what we currently know about the impacts and limitations of financial literacy programs for vulnerable Canadians and highlights the next set of research, policy and practice questions.