In addition to her role as Co-Chair of FINCA's  Village Banking Campaign, Her Majesty is a member of FINCA's  Board of Directors. Queen Rania’s association with FINCA International has been steadfast since her first visit to FINCA’s Washington, DC headquarters in 2000. Among the advocacy efforts in which Her Majesty has engaged:

Testifying before the House Foreign Relations Committee to encourage passage of the Micro Enterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2001, which supports the institutional development of programs providing credit, saving facilities, insurance, business training and other services vital to the success of poor entrepreneurs; Launching the Global Endowment for the Poor, an initiative designed to create a revolving pool of loan capital to serve the needs of poor people, mostly women, throughout the world; and Announcing the start-up of FINCA’s Afghanistan program in 2002, now one of FINCA's most successful programs.

Aside from her support of FINCA International, Queen Rania has been an active supporter of microlending in her own country, having started a community empowerment program in Jordan aimed at enhancing the economic and social well-being of women in underprivileged communities by establishing sustainable community-operated projects as part of her Jordan River Foundation.

Read Her Majesty's remarks at the launch of the Village Banking Campaign, May 2, 2007 in New York, NY.