The Microfinance Gateway, the industry's homepage, is a portal developed for and by members of the microfinance industry. It contains the largest online library on microfinance, provides by-the-minute news, lists job opportunities, hosts discussion groups on various industry topics, and highlights emerging issues. The Gateway ranks as the number one microfinance site on Google. It can be accessed in French at lamicrofinance.org. An Arabic site will be available shortly.

Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX) provides detailed information on both supply (donors/investors) and demand (MFIs) for institutional funding. It features over 359 sortable and comparable MFI financial statements and ratios, ratings reports and audits, information on MFI networks, and terms and conditions of funding from investors and donors. The MIX team also offers the MicroBanking Bulletin (MBB), a benchmarking service that collects and maintains financial and performance data on MFIs worldwide in a broad-based, confidential database. The MicroBanking Bulletin provides MFI managers with confidential financial reports and publishes anonymous peer group data semi-annually.

Technology Resource Center
Technology can help microfinance providers improve efficiency, track operations with more accuracy, increase transparency and reach new customers. The Technology Resource Center was designed to help microfinance institutions evaluate and find the funding to implement the best technology solutions for their needs. It includes guidance on both information systems and more advanced delivery and other technologies.

Savings Information Resource Center
The SIRC offers an opportunity to learn and share information on deposit mobilization among poor and excluded communities. The site collects, organizes, and disseminates the vast amount of existing information on savings, and offers a fresh perspective on the challenges and benefits of savings mobilization for clients, institutions, and economies. Key features include an online library; a virtual study tour of financial institutions in over 30 countries; an Ask the Experts column; and a Change Makers series featuring stories of financial institution staff who are trying to introduce or improve their savings products.

Microfinance Regulation and Supervision Resource Center
This resource center, created jointly by CGAP and The IRIS Center at the University of Maryland, pulls together in one central location a growing collection of information and resources on recent experiences in regulating and supervising microfinance. Resources include a comparative database on microfinance regulation; a reference library; and country-specific information.

IS Fund
The CGAP IS Fund provides co-financing for MFIs to hire specialized Information Systems consultants, and aims to improve the capacity of MFIs to make intelligent IS investment decisions. It will both increase the supply of skilled local microfinance IS consultants and act as a screening service for funders interested in financing technology systems for MFIs.

Rating Fund
The Microfinance Rating and Assessment Fund, run by CGAP, aims to improve the quality, reliability, and availability of information on the risk and performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs). It promotes transparency, good governance and the flow of private resources to the microfinance industry. It aims to stimulate demand on the part of MFIs to contract external evaluations of their financial performance, and build a supply of competent rating and appraisal services at both local and international levels.

Donor Information Resource Center (CGAP Direct)
The CGAP DIRECT is a dissemination platform and exchange forum for staff of all types of organizations that fund microfinance programs. It provides a range of practical briefs, case studies, presentations, and operational tools to help you implement good practice in all your microfinance work.

Product Costing Resource Center
Costing is a powerful tool that helps microfinance managers discover the true cost of products. This resource center run by CGAP aims to facilitate the detailed cost analysis of microfinance products and also functions as a learning and knowledge exchange site on product costing in microfinance. It provides CGAP's product costing tool and the companion software for activity-based costing along with the results achieved by several microfinance institutions that have already tested the tool and specific training material based on the tool.

Impact Assessment Center
This resource center run jointly by CGAP and ImpAct provides resources and guidance useful to practitioners and others on how to usefully include impact assessment in their work. It helps them understand the choices they need to make in order to get the most out of impact assessment, engaging effectively with donors, researchers and consultants in determining the most appropriate form of assessment for their organization and stakeholder needs.

Microinsurance Focus
Insurance poses many new challenges to the microfinance industry. This resource center run by CGAP promotes sound practices in insurance provision through the exchange of knowledge and experience.

Audit Services
This resource center is a tool for MFIs, donors, and auditors. It is designed to provide each with better information on how to contract, conduct and use MFI audits. This CGAP resource includes a glossary, FAQs, a discussion board, a virtual library, news, and external links. All these sections are designed to assist in increasing the quantity and improving the quality of MFI audits.

Client Targeting Center
The fundamental challenge of microfinance is to continuously increase its outreach to poor people through sustainable financial institutions. However, ensuring that poor people, especially the very poor, do receive access to financial services, is often difficult. Many MFIs have therefore resorted to "targeting" to ensure that the poor and the very poor are actually served. The Client Targeting Center has been designed by CGAP to provide information on the targeting tools that MFIs use. It also documents their experiences and provides an assessment of their successes.