IFC PEP-MENA’s Microfinance Program aims at supporting the growth and development of a sound microfinance industry in the Middle East and North Africa region. The program’s assistance to the microfinance industry is market-based and seeks to promote commercially sustainable microfinance institutions that can offer low-income clients an ever-increasing range of financial services. This is a long-term strategy intended to close today’s enormous gap in the demand and supply of financial services to underserved populations.
The Microfinance Program is active in Afghanistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Syria, West Bank and Gaza, and Yemen.