ACCESS is a not-for-profit company whose overall aim is to incubate new institutions to enable their self-sufficiency and self-sustainability. To this end, it offers specialised technical assistance under two verticals: microfinance and livelihoods. ACCESS assists the growing microfinance sector through streamlined and structured services to emerging MFIs and supports the enabling environment through the Microfinance India platform. Under the Livelihoods Program Unit, ACCESS impacts the lives of the poor by developing sustainable solutions for upscaling their income generation activities. To optimise its resources and maximise the results of its interventions, ACCESS believes in partnering with key stakeholders in the sector in order to develop mutually reinforcing strategies, bring convergence of competencies and build consensus on key issues.
ACCESS was set up in March 2006 as a not-for-profit Section 25 company. The raison d’être of setting up ACCESS was to build and consolidate the successful experiences of a large microfinance programme funded by DFID and implemented by CARE to contribute to the future growth and evolution of the microfinance sector in India.
Mission:
To build the capacity of community - based institutions that deliver relevent finencial and livelihood development services to the poor and unreached households.
