MicroNed was created in 2006, as a network of the Dutch Development Finance Organisations Cordaid, Hivos, ICCO and Oxfam Novib, to cooperate on a structural basis with respect to the establishment of a specialised sector approach for microfinance. In 2008 Rabobank Foundation joined MicroNed.
22 September 2009 – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Princess Máxima of the Netherlands as his new Special Advocate on Inclusive Finance, which he said can spur poverty reduction and advance development.
