The Swiss Microfinance Platform association is a not-for-profit idependent body with no profit-seeking activities of public benefit.

Its core strategy is to bring together all microfinance practitioners in Switzerland and provide them with opportunities for presenting and sharing activities, exchanging information and experiences, networking with other practitioners and collaborating on joint microfinance initiatives of interest.

The SMP also aims to rally Swiss microfinance stakeholder's financial, analytical, political expertise to promote the understanding of microfinance and capitalize on Swiss experiences in promotional financing issues for the benefit of emerging and western countries.

The association is a platform open to all professionals involved in microfinance, whether as analysts, practitioners, policy makers, investors – social or commercial – regardless of their vision of microfinance. Any individual or institution based in Switzerland that abides by the statutes of the association and pays the annual membership fee can join.