Accion's Mission

ACCION International is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of giving people the financial tools they need to work their way out of poverty. By providing “micro” loans, business training and other financial services to poor men and women who start their own businesses, ACCION helps people work their way up the economic ladder, with dignity and pride.

Accion's Vision and Objective

ACCION pursues a vision in which all people have access to a range of high-quality financial services that enhance their economic potential and the quality of their lives. 

We are more committed than ever to using our 50 years of experience in order to help build a more financially inclusive world. To this end, we will continue to focus sharply on the reduction of vulnerability and on increasing opportunity for poor households by helping to deliver full financial inclusion – credit, savings, insurance, payments, remittances, financial education and more – provided at affordable prices, in a convenient manner and with dignity for clients.  

Over the last few decades, microfinance has grown in scale by orders of magnitude – from reaching tens of thousands, to now reaching 150 million of the world's poor. This spectacular growth was unleashed when nonprofit organizations began evolving into regulated, sustainable microfinance banks, fueled by access to the capital markets. This evolution has been a natural outgrowth of the mission of microfinance.

Yet much more can be done to meet the full needs of those currently being served by microfinance, and there are a further 2 billion people who remain excluded from the system altogether.
 ACCION believes that in today’s world, financial inclusion
must be an imperative.