State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign 2001

The Summit's Declaration and Plan of Action are four core themes:

• Reaching the poorest;
• Reaching and empowering women;
• Building financially self-sufficient institutions;
• Ensuring a positive measurable impact on the lives of clients and their families.

Over the four years to 2001, the Microcredit Summit Campaign made significant progress in answering these challenges and new developments show that conventional wisdom is changing. The report outlines survey methodology, presents findings, and summarise work in verifying the data of an ever larger number of institutions.