Microfinance Opportunities

Microfinance Opportunities is a global non-profit committed to understanding the financial realities of low-income households. We work with financial service providers, policy makers, telco’s, card providers, mobile money operators and other private sector organizations to connect product and service offerings to the realities of the unbanked or under-served.

MFO works to translate consumer research, market analysis and practice insights into relevant, engaging and enabling consumer-focused financial inclusion strategies, financial capability development programs, as well as financial education training materials and tools.

In the face of changing social and economic conditions, MFO is continuously innovating, creating new content that responds to an ever evolving financial services sector; as well as experimenting and trialing emerging technologies in an effort to scale the delivery of financial education more effectively.

Our past work includes: partnering with Freedom from Hunger and the Citi Foundation to start the Global Financial Education Program which created the first comprehensive Financial Education curriculum targeting low-income persons in the developing world; partnering with the MasterCard Foundation and local branchless banking service providers in India, the Philippines, Zambia, and Malawi to develop embedded education programs; working with Access to Finance Rwanda to develop a national financial education strategy; and conducting Financial Diaries studies with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Kenya and Malawi.