Our Vision & Mission

Our Vision
INAFI envisions a world where the poor are empowered and given the opportunity to enjoy sustainable livelihood through affordable alternative financial services and active participation in their own development. A world where even the poorest of the poor enjoy life with dignity, sufficient food, and income security to meet basic needs including shelter, clothing, healthcare, and education.

Our Mission
INAFI strives to

• Promote alternative finance systems and mechanisms that are pro-poor, inclusive, and sustainable
• Strengthen the network’s capacity to bring together policymakers and practitioner organizations from North and South to develop pro-poor microfinance policies and practices based on the principles of mutual responsibility, accountability, and equal partnership
• Provide poor people with the means to accumulate, manage, and diversify the assets needed to become less susceptible to shocks and stresses, and/or to respond better to climate change challenges and opportunities.

Our Objectives

• Advocate for re-orienting microfinance and development initiatives to focus on poverty reduction and to ensure social impact by organizing practitioner institutions into a global network
• Expand outreach to the poorest and ensure social impact by building the capacities of practitioner institutions
• Influence and promote policies that enhance the capacities and credibility of practitioner members
• Build a global platform for sharing knowledge through research to enhance capacity within the sector and individual institutions, to encourage product innovation, and to support policy advocacy initiatives.