Goals

The Netherlands Platform for Microfinance aims to achieve the following goals:

Increase effectiveness through

• Joint financing of experiments focusing on innovative ways to lower the financial threshold to reach remote and poor clients.
• Improvement of the Dutch microfinance offer through increased internal co-ordination among the members and information sharing leading to greater insight into the comparative advantages and complementarity of the members.
• Strengthening the expertise of the member organisations through knowledge sharing on best practices and internationally accepted standards in the microfinance sector.

Increase efficiency through

• Organisation of joint activities in common areas of interest such as syndicated loans and other joint financial arrangements, country surveys, piloting of new approaches, impact studies, formulation of standardised indicators to measure social performance of partners, etc.

Enhance the impact of advocacy and lobby through

• Leverage of the efforts of the members to influence (inter)national policy development.

Increase public awareness and visibility of the Dutch offer through

• Provision of a common platform targeting the general public, existing and potential partner organisations and Northern donors and investors including the operation of a website, publication of results, case studies and joint technical reviews.