Association of Micro-finance Institutions in Uganda (AMFIU)is the network association of micro-finance institutions and other stakeholders in the country. It aims mainly at further developing the micro-finance industry through information dissemination, industry lobby, promotion of sound practices among practitioners and industry cohesion. After realizing that there were bits and pieces of information in various places/ documents on the sound practices against which micro finance institutions could benchmark their performance, AMFIU contracted FRIENDS’ Consult Ltd (FCL) in January 2004 to interview stakeholders, assemble data, articulate and comprehensively document “Sound Practices” in the micro-finance industry.