Entry Finance: Building the Livelihoods Assets and Capabilities of Youth

This brief outlines the concept behind the Entry finance program, namely, the need to build a more intentional bridge between youth and traditional MFIs. Entry finance achieves this goal by increasing the readiness of older children and youth to make use of microfinance services (including both savings and credit products), and by introducing new mechanisms and products that make microfinance providers more accessible to a younger clientele. The brief also summarizes the program's four step process.