As a leading microbanking institution, BRI has played an active role in promoting microfinance through sharing its microbanking best practices with other institutions around the world. In 1996 BRI established the International Visitor Program (BRI-IVP) under a partnership agreement between BRI and USAID. Furthermore, BRI  signed a partnership with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) to develop the capacity building of BRI-IVP.  The  BRI-IVP  offers a unique training program which enables the participants to learn from BRI success as well as its failures in developing microbanking The approach and methodology applied in the training are practically oriented.

BRI-IVP is supported by a group of experienced microbanking specialists and field staff.  After a few years, BRI-IVP  has been renamed into Microfinance International Cooperation in which under the new name, the bank aims  to expand the cooperation between the bank and others  MFIs all over the world.