Organisation

Organisation general information
Organisation name: 
Ente Nazionale per il Microcredito
Founding year: 
-
Country: 
Italy
Total number of staff: 
104
Resources dedicated to microfinance: 
104
Percentage of microfinance activities: 
100%
Type of organisation: 
Non profit
 
Government agency
Organisation's contact person
Contact person: 
Mr. Riccardo Maria Graziano
Address: 
Via Vittoria Colonna 1
IT-00193
Rome
Italy
Phone: 
+39 (06) 8360 6132
Organisation summary
Mission: 

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.

Type of intervention: 
  • Subsidies in staff time (e.g. technical assistance/capacity building, evaluation)
  • Subsidies in staff time (e.g. research / information dissemination)
  • Subsidies in staff time (e.g. policy advice / development / lobby)
  • Subsidies in staff time (e.g. networking/ donor / coordination)
Countries of intervention: 
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
South America
Areas of intervention: 
  • Macro level: Prudential regulation, Supervision, Interest rates and rate caps, Client protection, Supporting networks and associations, Strengthening national/regional microfinance support sector, Capacity building (focused on all MFIs), Non-prudential regulation
  • Intermediate level: Community-based finance solutions, Rural finance, Microfinance investment vehicules, Business development services, Urban finance, Gender, Youth
  • Other themes: Academic research, Impact and performances studies, Sector mapping, Evaluation