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An Assessment of the effects of Financial Counselling on decision-making behaviour of housing beneficiaries in Jaffna and Killinochchi

Author : Gunasekara, Vagisha., Najab,N., Mohamed, M.

Publisher: Centre for Poverty Analysis

Place of Publish: Sri Lanka, Colombo

Year: 2015

Page Numbers: 35

Acc. No: 4907

Class No: 363.5 GUN-SL

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Social Problems and Services

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-955-1040-91-8

A study conducted by CEPA found that approximately 85% of the SDC housing beneficiaries had unmanageable debt and over 50% of them lacked knowledge about managing finances. In response to this evidence, SDC implemented a financial counseling module, specific to the housing process, as a way of maintaining low housing-related debt levels. This intervention shapes the main objective of this study, which is to understand the extent to which SDC's financial counseling module shaped behavioral changes in housing (re)construction process.Blurb source: Cepa