Making Green Microfinance Work
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Making Green Microfinance Work
24–28 November 2025
"Advance your capacity to design, deliver, and manage green microfinance solutions that drive sustainable impact."
Introduction to the course
This new course is designed with the use of the ILO Making Microfinance Work programmes, in particular - tailoring "Managing product diversification" training program to Green microfinance. The ILO Making Microfinance Work program aims to inspire and prepare managers to expand their institutions' outreach beyond what has already been achieved. It is built on adult education principles using a highly participatory methodology, varied activities, and a minimum of lecturing. The course aims at building the capacities of financial service providers, especially microfinance institutions, in the development and delivery of green microfinance products. It draws on available industry resources and case studies and brings them together in a holistic package addressing microfinance management and diversification challenges.
Who attends this course?
The main target audience of the course is middle and senior management staff of financial service providers, responsible for product design, innovation and marketing. The course will be useful also to other actors of the scope providers of technical assistance to FSPs, investment and funding agencies, national and regional networks, microfinance associations, apexes and federations of credit and saving cooperatives. Government agencies and regulators of the financial sector and development and humanitarian practitioners and donors will find this course relevant as well.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course you will:
- Strengthen your knowledge of the landscape of green inclusive finance and identify key sectors and subsectors relevant to your context.
- Understand how to prepare for product diversification using various tools tailored to green financial products.
- Develop outreach strategies for target groups through applying a new market development process.
- Analyze partnership and delivery strategies to expand reach and better serve green finance clients.
- Gain practical insights from global, regional, and local case studies on green microfinance.
- Engage in your own action planning to apply course concepts to your institutional and operational contexts.
Course Content
The course is structured around three thematic modules, drawing on the most recent global, regional, and local experiences, best practices, and documented failures. It is based on the conceptual framework of the ILO Managing Product Diversification manual, with material and case study from industry sources and providers.
The programme covers:
- Preparation
Delivering value. New market development, using tools to understand the green market and decide who to serve. The landscape of green inclusive finance and sectors/subsectors involved.
- Outreach strategy
Outreach strategies for selected target groups or green segments, covering products, communication, relationship and institutional delivery strategies. Managing HR, institutional culture, and organizational structure that may need adaptation or development.
- Managing diversified portfolios and relationships with key stakeholders
Identifying a pathway for building successful partnership models for providing green inclusive finance products and services.
Action planning activities are embedded into the course design.
The major focus will be on the FSPs abilities and capacities to develop green inclusive finance products, which will cover 4 groups of products (loans, other financial services for example savings and insurance, and non-financial services).
Certificate
Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate of participation.
Dates
24-28 November, 2025
Languages
English and French.
Arabic track can be added upon request.
Price
Tuition fee 1,825 EUR
Subsistence 720 EUR (includes full board and accommodation on ITC ILO campus for 6 nights)
Total 2,545 EUR
Registration Form
Contact
Contact the ITCILO: mmw@itcilo.org for any question you may have.
Course manager: Ms. Margarita Lalayan, m.lalayan@itcilo.org at Sustainable Enterprises and Economies (SEE) programme
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