S3IDF's mission is to reduce poverty by applying and disseminating its paradigm-shifting Social Merchant Bank ApproachSM
The SMBA bundles business development support, technological know-how, and co-financing to create small-scale enterprises that provide energy and other infrastructure services and productive-use investments to the poor. These services and investments include lighting, drinking water, transportation, hydropower, cooking, communication, and technologies for small-scale industries.