Microfinance Approach

Our Mandate:

“To help poor entrepreneurs earn sustainable livelihoods by providing innovative and sustainable access to credit and savings services”

MEDA assists its institutional partners to provide cost-effective, high quality, and sustainable financial services to the poor in developing countries, through a variety of approaches:

• Providing professional consulting services to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in all aspects of operations, finance, and governance
• Managing long-term projects for microfinance sector development at the institutional or national level
• Assisting MFIs to access additional capital resources, including from MEDA’s own Sarona Risk Capital Fund
• Research and testing of new financial products and delivery mechanisms
• Advancing the legal and regulatory environment for microfinance
• Contributing to knowledge generation for the microfinance industry by sharing our best practice training tools and publications