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/

Watch a clip of our President Monique Cohen discussing the topic of financial education on an experts panel sponsored by Citi Group and Women's World Banking:

News & Announcements

FINO India, one of MFO's partners in the MasterCard Foundation sponsored project Customer Education to Improve Uptake and Usage of Branchless Banking among Low-Income Populations, was recently given the prestigious 2010 Financial Times Sustainable Banking Award in the category “Achievement in Banking at Base of the Pyramid”.  More details are available online here.

Microfinance Opportunities and The MasterCard Foundation Announce Partners in Asia for Financial Education for Branchless Banking Program

Exciting new methodology: Financial Diaires as a Tool for Consumer Research

Check out our latest note from the field on M-PESA outreach in Kenya here!

Read about our innovative Financial Capability Index here!

Global financial education program reaches more than 21 million people. Click here for summary of outreach.

Microfinance Opportunities has released Can Financial Education Change Behavior?: Lessons from Bolivia and Sri Lanka

Microfinance Opportunities and The MasterCard Foundation launch a three-year program for financial education for branchless banking.  

The Global Financial Education Program curriculum is now available for purchase online!

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.

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