Microfinance Opportunities is a microenterprise resource center that promotes client-led microfinance. Established in 2002 as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, we seek to facilitate an improvement in poor people's lives by increasing their access to well-designed and well-delivered financial services.

Microfinance Opportunities occupies a specialized market niche within the microfinance industry, providing action-oriented research, training, and technical assistance in three client-focused areas:

• Financial Education: Design, training and dissemination
  Visit the website of the Global Financial Education Program: www.globalfinancialed.org
• Microinsurance: Assessing demand and facilitating supply
• Client Assessment: Market research and impact assessment. Visit the website of the Assessing the Impact of Innovation Grants in Financial Services project: http://www.fsassessment.umd.edu/

Announcements

The Global Financial Education Program launches three new specialized financial education modules. Read descriptions of the modules here.

Learn more about Microfinance Opportunities' 2009 grant from the Citi Foundation here.

FSD Kenya is fostering the development of a national financial education program. In May 2008 it sponsored market research to address key questions that will inform a strategy for such a program. Read the report here.

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