The National Microcredit Agency is a corporate body, governed by public law, whit the objective to pursue poverty eradication and combat social exclusion in Italy and internationally in developing countries and transition economies.

The National Microcredit Agency functions as the national coordination body, tasked with promoting, steering, facilitating, appraising and monitoring the microfinance instruments and facilities promoted by the European Union, and microfinance operations implemented using European Union funding.

Also, at the domestic level, the Agency is vested with microcredit and microfinance coordination functions. Its strategies and actions are consistent with national objectives, according to instruments and actions adopted by the government to deal with the crisis.