INAFI Africa is the pan-African chapter of a global microfinance network concerned with promoting and supporting greater access to finance for the poor and low-income households as a means to eradicating poverty globally. The global INAFI network, incorporated for the first time in Cuzco, Peru, in March 1995, operates through near autonomous but legally and operationally linked regional chapters in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

INAFI Africa exists to enable member organizations (MOs) access the knowledge, skills, and capacity required to serve a historically disadvantaged population and to become self-sustaining, dynamic and efficient alternative financial intermediaries. As of December 2007, INAFI Africa had 50 member organizations in 24 countries throughout Africa and was serving a client base of 4.01 million people, typically peasant farmers, artisans, and micro/small-scale entrepreneurs. The combined networks outstanding loans and deposits portfolio as at the end of 2007 was US$754 million and US$392 million.