How Cabo Verde uses data and financing to turn skills training into jobs Claudia Marie Muriel LopezLaura BermeoMedjy Pierre-Louis September 28, 2026 This page in: English

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/how-cabo-verde-uses-data-and-financing-to-turn-skills-training-i?cid=ECR_E_NewsletterWeekly_EN_EXT&deliveryName=DM290623 Training funds are now widely used to finance skills development, but their results are uneven. Too often, they count people trained without showing whether graduates find work or whether employers value the skills provided. Cabo Verde offers a useful counterexample. Its Fundo de Promoção do Emprego e da Formação (FPEF), or Employment Promotion and Training Fund in English, combines sustainable financing, competitive grants, equity targets, and employment tracking in a single system.