By the end of this course you will:

1. Strengthen your knowledge of the landscape of green inclusive finance and identify key sectors and subsectors relevant to your context.
2. Understand how to prepare for product diversification using various tools tailored to green financial products.
3. Develop outreach strategies for target groups through applying a new market development process.
4. Analyze partnership and delivery strategies to expand reach and better serve green finance clients.
5. Gain practical insights from global, regional, and local case studies on green microfinance.
6. Engage in your own action planning to apply course concepts to your institutional and operational contexts.

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:

1. 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.
   
    
2. 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.
   
    
3. 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).

Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate of participation.

24-28 November, 2025

English and French.

Arabic track can be added upon request.

Tuition fee 1,825 EUR

Subsistence 720 EUR (includes full board and accommodation on ITC ILO campus for 6 nights)

Total 2,545 EUR

https://oarf2.itcilo.org/STF/A9018470/en

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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