The MFMI empowers the world's largest network of professionals who are working to bridge best practice lessons in microfinance with the delivery of novel learning programs about management and organizational development within microfinance institutions (MFIs).

The reach of the MFMI is global, but its mission is local.  MFMI and its founding organization CGAP have learned from years of work on capacity building that contextualization to local realities is a key driver of successful learning programs.

The MFMI channels its energy and resources to a growing network of 46 training and academic organizations in 25 developing and emerging countries-where microfinance practice is found.  Member organizations reside in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, working throughout these regions to meet the critical need for capacity building services within the microfinance sector.

The MFMI fosters network collaboration both virtually and at regional workshops to 1) facilitate peer-to-peer exchange and lateral learning based on their experience and internal institutional changes in developing learning programs on microfinance management, and 2) fast track members' skills spanning from research to evaluation processes, but contextualized to their respective microfinance marketplace.

The MFMI collaborates with CGAP to educate funders of microfinance, in a manner that complements the skills development work of MFMI with training and education providers.  MFMI and CGAP co-deliver the CGAP Course for Microfinance Funders to build the strategic awareness of funders and government officers for making responsible investments in the sector.

MFMI Products and Services

The MFMI promotes effectiveness and quality of its members' work through a host of products and services.  Knowledge creation and knowledge dissemination are at the center of MFMI products and services:

1. Support for primary research and the development of new learning tools to push creative thinking on new products and services, business models, delivery channels and the need to align the same with the realities of low-income households
   
   
2. Skills development in the analysis, design, development, delivery and evaluation of all aspects of training and academic programs for microfinance
   
   
3. Facilitation of peer-to-peer learning and working groups for MFMI members to further their interests in microfinance programming
   
   
4. Advisory to members for program development, drawing on the global experience of CGAP and MFMI
   
   
5. Offer of the CGAP Course for Microfinance Funders to shape responsible investment
   
   
6. Knowledge management function to highlight and package materials for trainers and academics, and provide market information about training and academic programs offered globally