Webinar - Financing Skills for Livelihoods: Aligning Education Finance with Real-World Pathways to Work
What does it take to finance skills training that leads to real jobs, entrepreneurship, and sustainable livelihoods? In this webinar, experts from Africa and South Asia explore how education finance can better support learners on their journey from training to employment. Key learnings include the importance of designing financial products around real income patterns, using employment outcomes as underwriting signals, financing the full cost of employability beyond tuition, and creating shared-risk models involving lenders, training providers, employers, and governments. The discussion also highlights why repayment challenges are often caused by product design rather than borrower behavior, and how verified outcome data can become a powerful tool for expanding access to skills finance. Discover insights from Kenya’s growing TVET sector, lessons from India’s skills financing reforms, and practical recommendations for financial institutions seeking to invest in pathways that connect learning to livelihoods.