4 de Octubre is a female-led savings and loans cooperative established in Ecuador in 1998 with over 7,000 borrowers.

ACME S.A. is one of the prominent microfinance players in Haiti dedicated to providing fast, reliable, and affordable financing solutions to Haitian micro, small, and medium-sized entrepreneurs suffering from unmet credit needs.

ADICLA is a Guatemalan financial service provider that that supports the low-income population, serving primarily women and rural micro borrowers.

ADIGUA is a microfinance organization supporting entrepreneurs in central and western Guatemala, with a focus on smallholder farmers and women’s groups.

Founded in 1991 by a group of local community leaders, Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de San Antonio llotenango (“ADISA”) is a non profit financial service provider serving women micro entrepreneurs in the Guatemalan province of Quiché. Their mission is to provide timely, specialized and competitive financial and non-financial services promoting rural development that contributes to increasing income and improving the quality of life of borrowers and their families.

ADRA Peru is a subsidiary of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International, a global humanitarian agency with the purpose of promoting social and economic development. ADRA Peru offers mainly village-banking loans to its clients with the goal of enhancing the socio-economic development of its borrowers and to improve their living conditions and self-esteem through additional services.

Advans Myanmar is a microfinance institution founded by Advans Group in 2015 with the mission to provide easily accessible financial services to underserved clients in Myanmar. The organization is the newest affiliate of the broader Advans Group, a global microfinance network currently operating in nine countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

Agora Microfinance Zambia is a microfinance institution dedicated to serving low-income, rural households in Zambia with appropriate financial products.

Aldea Global is a Nicaraguan association whose key activity is the sourcing and exporting of premium coffee from small-scale farmers to buyers in Europe and North America. In addition, Aldea Global provides microfinance services, access to high-quality inputs, technical assistance and certification support to its associates.

Amazonas is a Bolivian Brazil nut company that sources nuts from rural collectors, processes them, and ships to buyers in the US and Europe. Amazonas has strong gender and environmental impacts—women account for the majority of company leadership, and Brazil nut production creates an alternative to unsustainable and illegal economic activities such as mining and timber.

Apollo Agriculture is an agricultural fintech company based in Kenya that helps small-scale farmers improve their incomes through a package of services, including high quality inputs, technical assistance, agronomic advice, insurance and financing.

Arnur Credit mainly serves farmers and household plot owners and entrepreneurs in southern Kazakhstan. The majority of its borrowers live in rural areas and make a living from agriculture. The institution has flexible products tailored to the needs of those populations and a wide network of offices to cover far away villages where employment opportunities are limited. MCE was one of the first MIVs to lend to the institution in 2010.

ASA Kenya is a financial servicer provider offering low-income female business owners small loans to start or grow businesses. Their lending approach is based on individual lending via client groups, without joint-liability. Over the last 10 years, ASA Kenya has expanded to become one of the largest FSPs in Kenya, serving 162k borrowers, 99% of which are women.

La Asociación Salvadoreña de Extensionistas Empresariales del INCAE (ASEI) is a local NGO based in San Salvador that aims to empower low-income entrepreneurs, especially women, by providing small loans, financial education, and healthcare services.

The Asian Credit Fund (ACF) is a microfinance institution established in 1997 that provides microloans and other business services to small and growing businesses in Kazakhstan. ACF’s financial services are designed specifically to promote small and growing businesses, develop rural households sustainably, and facilitate home ownership throughout the country.

Avanza Sólido, S.A. de C.V. SOFOM, E.N.R. (“Avanza Solido”) is a microfinance institution headquartered in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico, dedicated to providing financial services to underserved communities in impoverished regions of the country.

Azahar is a Colombian small business involved in the sourcing and exporting of premium specialty coffee from 5,000 small-scale farmers in post-conflict areas. Its uniquely impactful approach comes from traceability initiatives like its Sustainable Coffee Buyers Guide, which helps buyers understand price point to income ratios based on region. Additionally, Azahar promotes climate mitigation techniques like natural pest prevention, soil enrichment and water-efficiency amongst its farmers.

Baobab DRC is a subsidiary of the Baobab Group, a leading financial inclusion network of microfinance institutions that provide a wide range of digital and mobile solutions to over half a million individuals and small enterprises across Africa and China.

Baobab Mali (formerly MicroCred Mali) is a subsidiary of the Baobab Group, a leading financial inclusion network of microfinance institutions that provide a wide range of digital and mobile solutions to over half a million individuals and small enterprises across Africa and China.

Baobab Nigeria (formerly Microcred Nigeria) is a subsidiary of the Baobab Group, a leading financial inclusion network of microfinance institutions that provide a wide range of digital and mobile solutions to over half a million individuals and small enterprises across Africa and China.

Burlap & Barrel is a single origin spice company based in the US, sourcing a variety of spices across developing and developed markets around the world. The organization started by selling primarily to wholesale customers, and has increasingly focused on retail sales through its own ecommerce website.

Burlap & Barrel is focused on building long-term, mutually beneficial trade relationships with its partner farmers. Transparency and traceability are key aspects of Burlap’s approach, which seeks to bring farmers into greater positions of power within a value chain that was designed to exploit them.

Chamroeun is a microfinance institution established in 2006 focused on serving the base of the pyramid in Cambodia, targeting financially underserved people living in slum areas where most other existing MFIs don’t operate.

Cooperativa de Ahoro y Crédito Mujeres Unidas (CACMU) is a microfinance institution whose mission is to improve the quality of life for women and families in northern Ecuador through the provision of financial and non-financial services.

MCE’s first client back in 2006, Crecer is a leading MFI in Bolivia that serves every region of the country with a variety of financial and non-financial services. Crecer is committed to reaching underserved populations of the country through a mix of individual and village banking loan products.

CrediCampo is a cooperative in El Salvador that works in collaboration with Fundación Campo, its partner foundation, to alleviate poverty and empower rural communities through access to credit and community development services.

Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) is a pioneering social enterprise that works closely with rural communities across Zambia’s Luangwa Valley to promote sustainable agricultural practices with enhanced market access in a way that incentivizes forest and wildlife conservation, promotes household income and food security, and increases climate resilience for small-scale farmers.

East Africa Fruits Co. is a social enterprise founded in 2015 that works to improve market access for smallholder farmers in Tanzania, increase farmers’ incomes by reducing post-harvest losses and adding value to fresh produce, and modernize agribusiness sector.

Edesa is a non-banking financial institution based in Costa Rica that provides financial services to rural areas to generate entrepreneurship and to progressively build up equity at the community level.

Ed Partners Africa is a non-banking financial institution that transforms the education sector through providing financial solutions.

Ehtirom Plus is a financial service provider based in Eastern Uzbekistan with a mission to accelerate financial inclusion in rural areas of Fergana valley. In a country characterized by low levels of financial inclusion, their impact is evident in their strong focus on underserved rural communities.

Elet Capital, an MFI based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, focuses on serving low-income rural entrepreneurs with formal financial services that would otherwise be unavailable.

Enlace is a Salvadoran microfinance institution founded in 1998 as a collaborative social project between Catholic Relief Services, USAID, the José Simeón Cañas Central American University and other local NGOs. Enlace works primarily through group lending, granting working capital loans for productive purposes, as well as individual microloans for home improvement.

Equity for Tanzania (EFTA) is an equipment leasing company that targets farmers and small and medium-sized enterprises in order to support job creation and promote economic development in Tanzania

Fundación Espoir is a socially focused MFI in Ecuador that provides a range of financial and non-financial services to underserved communities, including individual and village banking loans, health services, and strong educations programs.

Esta Dana Ventura, based in the Greater Jakarta metropolitan area in Indonesia and founded in 2015, was founded to improve people’s welfare and equitable economic growth in Indonesia through supporting entrepreneurship. The FSP is strongly gender focused, supporting primarily female micro-entrepreneurs engaged in trading activities such as household goods and basic necessities.

Fundación de Apoyo Comunitario y Social del Ecuador (“FACES”) is a non-profit MFI established in 1991 with the mission to provide credit and non-credit services to the under-banked population in Ecuador.

Financiación Amiga S.A.S. (Finamiga) is a small microfinance institution based in Cali, Colombia, which serves a niche market through motorcycle financing for productive use — specifically targeting micro-entrepreneurs and farmers that need vehicles to transport their goods.

Financiera FAMA, owned by Fundación FAMA, is a Nicaraguan MFI committed to providing financial services to underserved populations of the country with a particular focus on women.

FINCA Armenia is a branch of FINCA International providing financial services to low-income entrepreneurs in Armenia. They serve 22K+ micro and small entrepreneurs (as of 2022), with a special focus on the smallest borrowers in rural areas (58% of the clients).

Banco para la Asistencia Comunitaria FINCA S.A. (“Finca Ecuador”) was established in 1993 by Finca International in an effort to provide financial services to the most impoverished and underserved segments of Ecuador through Finca’s signature product, village banking.

FINCA Kosovo seeks to be the leading provider of microfinance services throughout Kosovo with a strong focus on low-income clients and micro-entrepreneurs. FINCA Kosovo is a part of the FINCA International microfinance network.

FINCA Zambia is a deposit-taking microfinance institution with the mission to support micro and small enterprises across the country through access to financial services that help clients to build businesses, acquire assets, and improve their living conditions.

Finance for Development LLC (FinDev) is a non-bank financial institution that was started in 1997 by Oxfam Great Britain with a commitment to serving underserved populations with a range of financial products.

Fudecosur is an NGO that operates in the southern region of Costa Rica where much of the population is underserved and low-income, focusing on providing financial services to farmers and rural communities.

Furuz is an financial service provider offering savings accounts, long term deposits and money exchange operations to people in the center and southern regions of Tajikistan.

Georgian Credit is an microfinance organization (MFO) founded by Georgian individuals in 2006 with the mission to provide financial services to small and medium-sized businesses, primarily in the agricultural sector, in rural areas of Georgia.

Good Nature Agro (GNA) invests in Zambian small-scale farmers to generate lasting income by providing technical assistance, inputs and access to a readymade market.

HUMO is a deposit-taking MFI that maintains a strong focus on rural populations of Tajikistan, offering a range of financial services and non-financial services such as financial literacy training. HUMO has been a partner of MCE since 2008.

IDEPRO is a Bolivian microfinance institution with a strong position in the most remote regions of the country. The organization contributes to the financial inclusion and development of female and male entrepreneurs in microenterprises often overlooked by traditional banks.

Instituto de Desarrollo Hondureño (IDH) is a nonprofit microfinance institution founded in 1974 with the purpose of providing credit and non-credit services to underbanked populations in Honduras.

IMON International was one of MCE’s first loan recipients in 2006, and maintains its strong commitment to alleviating poverty by serving the country’s most vulnerable populations through a variety of financial products and services, including traditional loans, education and green loans, savings accounts, remittance transfers, and mobile banking.

Inclusiva is a small lending and savings cooperative operating in the rural regions of Peru since 2019. Inclusiva has a strong focus on the region’s lower income population situated in the mountainous and remote areas of Peru that are often overlooked by most of the competitors in the microfinance sector.  Quilmaná, the district where Inclusiva has its biggest portfolio, has a population of about 20K inhabitants, for whom Inclusiva is the only financing option. 

Inka Moss is a social enterprise that works with communities in the Peruvian Andes to source, process, and export moss that naturally grows in the region. The company incorporates members of these communities as suppliers in its value chain, providing technical assistance and education to ensure sustainable harvesting practices and increased incomes.

Instituto de Investigaciones Socioeconomicas y Tecnologicas (“Insotec”) was founded in 1980 as a technical assistance agency to support the political and economic role of small businesses in the Ecuadorian economy. Today, technical assistance still plays a key role in Insotec’s microfinance portfolio, which is accompanied by health brigades and insurance, life insurance, and business and financial literacy education.

Juhudi Kilimo is a financial service provider serving smallholder farmers in Kenya. Juhudi finances specific agricultural assets that offer immediate and sustainable income for farmers. Almost 100% of their 75K borrowers live in rural areas and 69% are female, with loans branching out from dairy to other value chains like maize, bananas and coffee.

Lift Above Poverty Organization Sierra Leone (LAPO SL) is a microfinance institution that seeks to give its clients access to flexible financial services in order to empower women to challenge age-long customs and traditions that constrain their access to economic opportunity.

Lazika Capital is a Georgian microfinance institution that targets small enterprises in rural and semi-urban regions to promote economic development through the provision of financial services, primarily business and agriculture loans.

LOLC Cambodia is a leading microfinance institution which was founded in 1994. Today the organization has grown to serve more than hundreds of thousands of rural Cambodians with micro loans and savings accounts.

LOLC Ventura is an Indonesian financial service provider that supports microenterprises in rural areas where financial inclusion is limited. The provider uses a group loan methodology to serve its more than 75,000 customers, a group made up of 100% rural women.

Mali Shi buys and processes shea kernels to export shea butter to international markets. Shea is an important source of income for rural communities in Mali with thousands of women involved in the collection and processing of the fruit; there is therefore significant potential for job creation and higher incomes. Mali Shi’s objective is to source 100% of the shea kernel directly from cooperatives and producer associations, which consist almost exclusively of female producers.

MAXIMA Microfinance Plc. has been a client of MCE since 2022. The organization recently launched a new digital loan product that targets hard-to-reach borrowers through referral agents that live in rural communities. The organization serves more than 8,000 borrowers, of which 80% are women, and 83% live outside the capital city.

MiCrédito is a non-bank microfinance institution serving customers at the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid in urban and rural Nicaragua.

Micreditoya Microfinanciera S.A.S. (“Micreditoya”) is an MFI with the mission to serve the basis of the pyramid in the South of Colombia with responsibility and transparency, which it does by offering small loans to both urban and rural borrowers seeking to develop their businesses, improve their housing conditions, or invest in their families’ education.

Microinvest is a microfinance institution that contributes to the economic and social development of Moldova by offering responsible and transparent lending primarily in the form of business loans, agriculture loans, and small loans.

Microcredit Foundation Mikra (“Mikra”) is an MFI with a mission to responsibly provide the poorest but economically active population, mostly women, with access to high-quality and affordable financial, educational, and related services needed to reduce poverty, encourage self-employment, and develop micro-entrepreneurship.

Moringa Connect is a moringa processing and marketing business that operates in Ghana and the United States, which sources moringa seeds and leaves from thousands of Ghanaian smallholder farmers, processes the products locally into moringa oil and powder, then exports them or sells them in the Ghanaian market.

Naasakle International LLC (Naasakle) is a family-owned, vertically integrated shea processing and marketing business founded in 2000 that operates in Ghana and the United States, utilizing a direct “picker to consumer” model to connect Ghanaian women shea pickers with global consumer markets.

Nahua Cacao & Chocolate is a fine cacao exporter and chocolate producer that sources from smallholder farmers in Costa Rica. Nahua comprises two separate business lines: 1) Nahua Cacao, which transforms wet cacao beans sourced from smallholder farmers in northern Costa Rica for export, and 2) Nahua Chocolate, which produces fine chocolates that are sold in Costa Rica.

Natural Extracts Industries Ltd. (NEI) is a for-profit social enterprise based in Moshi in northern Tanzania that works to accelerate the economic growth of smallholder farmers by adding value to their crops through sustainable agricultural practices and providing access to global markets.

Optima Servicios Financieros (“Optima”) is a non-bank financial institution (NBFI) in El Salvador with a focus on micro-loans below US$15,000, factoring, and larger business loans, primarily in urban and peri-urban areas of the country.

The Organic Village is a Dutch-based entity that provides support to The Organic Valley, a Nepalese SME engaged in the cultivation, sourcing, transformation and exportation of organic herbs and spices. The Organic Valley was established in 2003 by a Nepalese entrepreneur and former UNDP officer who saw an opportunity to implement market-based approaches to empower rural communities in Nepal.

Oxus Tajikistan is an enterprise engaged in providing financial services to the working poor and the unbanked in Tajikistan. OXUS is dedicated to creating and providing the most efficient microfinance services while improving the sustainable livelihoods of its customers through green financing initiatives and supporting rural borrowers.

Perennial Foods Group (PFG) is a Mauritius-based holding company with two subsidiaries, Green Way Farms in Ethiopia and Perennial Foods UK. The goal of the group is to build up competitiveness at the Ethiopian smallholder level by training, sourcing, processing and exporting a range of fresh and dried agro-ecological products to countries in the EU, UK and Middle East. All of PFG products are certified organic or in transition.

ProCredito is a high-impact lender serving micro-, small- and medium-size enterprises in Mexico. Their strong gender and environmental policies are monitored with internal metric reporting, with a focus on loans towards clean transportation and water-wise agriculture.

Prograin Organic is a for-profit social enterprise based in Chisinau, Moldova, which works with smallholder farmers to produce and source organic grains and export them to clients in the organic food and organic feeding sectors in the European Union. Prograin Organic is the first company in Moldova to promote organic agricultural products.

Pro Mujer Nicaragua is a nonprofit financial services provider focusing on women, and is a market leader in village banking. It has been working to advance gender equality in Nicaragua for more than 27 years through financial inclusion, health and wellbeing, and training opportunities by integrating a strong gender lens in the design of products and services.

Proximity Finance (Proximity) is the microfinance company owned by Proximity Designs, a social enterprise that designs products and services to improve the livelihoods of underserved rural families in Myanmar. Proximity is the only fully integrated player for agricultural microfinance in Myanmar, serving smallholder farmers with access to finance, technology, and knowledge.

Renesans is an MFI based in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, which provides loan products that targets underserved populations, primarily self-employed entrepreneurs active in trade in local markets, services, small-scale agriculture, and other consumer-related purposes.

Sierra Agra is a for-profit social business in Sierra Leone that works to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and strengthen the mango value chain by purchasing from smallholder farmers and processing mangoes into a commercial product that can be sold locally and internationally.

Sol Organica is a certified B-Corporation in Nicaragua that works to improve the livelihoods of tropical fruit farmers in Nicaragua while maximizing their agricultural potential and promoting the use of sustainable and organic farming practices.

Soprocopiv is an SGB sourcing coffee, cocoa and cinchona from smallholder farming villages in the DRC. It provides inputs, training and equipment to almost 10,000 smallholder suppliers. In addition, agronomists offer these farmers annual technical assistance and education on regenerative practices and environmental certification requirements.

Sunfunder is a solar financing business that unlocks capital for solar energy in emerging markets and improves the lives of those living without reliable access to electricity.

Tolaro Global is a cashew nut processing business based in Parakou, a small town in Northern Benin. Founded in 2010, Tolaro sources raw cashew nuts directly from local farmers and transforms them for export.

Uncommon Cacao offers custom-tailored transparent supply chains built in partnership with farming families to deliver high quality bean-to-bar cacao to specialty chocolate makers and manufacturers while creating measurable social impact for smallholder farmers across Latin America.

Transcapital is a medium-sized MFI that provides access to financial services in the poor suburbs of Ulaanbaatar and rural areas of Mongolia.

Victory Farms Limited is a tilapia fish farm based in Homa Bay, Kenya. The business, which began operations in 2016, aims to become the country’s leading sustainable fishery through its operations on Lake Victoria.

Villa Andina is a Peruvian social enterprise that works with rural communities in different regions of Peru to source native organic products directly from smallholder farmers and provide technical assistance to improve their yields and farming incomes.

Vision Fund Ecuador was originally established as the foundation Fondo de Desarrollo Microempresarial (FODEMI) in 1995 before growing to become a part of Vision Fund International and operating as a Bank specializing in Microcredit. It manages both the individual methodology and the Village banking methodology, differentiating itself in the sector by focusing on the agriculture sector and targeting vulnerable populations.

VisionFund México is a microfinance institution offering loans, insurance, and training primarily to women micro entrepreneurs in 8 of the 10 poorest states in Mexico. Serving as a microcredit arm of the World Vision Group, VisionFund México lays the foundation for local economies to thrive in sustainable communities.