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Join the ANDE Pan Africa Conference 2025 in Senegal
Connect with visionaries at the ANDE Pan Africa Conference 2025 to foster inclusive entrepreneurship through youth empowerment, innovation, and diversity. Register now and inspire action for Africa’s future.
Global Annual Conference 2025
Building tomorrow’s ecosystems
Connect, Innovate, Transform.
Save the date | September 29 to October 2, 2025, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Join the summit for decision-makers shaping the future of entrepreneurship.
Overcoming critical challenges, we refined our strategic focus and deepened engagement in local ecosystems—laying the groundwork for more inclusive, impactful, and sustainable entrepreneurship support.
They can promote inclusive finance and economic growth through tailored solutions.
South Africa’s bold initiative amplifies township entrepreneurs' contributions, driving inclusive growth and showcasing peri-urban innovation on the world stage.
India's commitment to net-zero emissions by 2070 and ambitious renewable energy targets underscores its focus on sustainable growth. Despite significant progress, climate adaptation challenges remain. Discover how Global Business Inroads (GBI) drives cleantech and circular economy development by connecting innovators, markets, and investors through initiatives like the UK-India Net-Zero Innovation Program and Circular Fashion Platform. Using platforms like Global Technology Interface®, GBI fosters technology deployment, capacity building, and sustainable entrepreneurship, empowering businesses to scale, address environmental challenges, and create dignified jobs globally.
The ESEA team’s Scale through SCALE Workshop in Vietnam showcased valuable insights from a panel discussion centered on five key pillars: selecting the right enterprises, implementing cost-sharing to enhance performance, addressing critical challenges, leveraging evaluation for growth, and leading by example. These discussions underscore the significance of fostering a dynamic, inclusive ecosystem to empower scalable and impactful entrepreneurship across Southeast Asia.
A new research report by Mercy Corps explores the specific conditions and trends that shape the application of data for climate resilience in emerging markets.
Launching a coalition to shape sustainable procurement practices and close the $1.1 trillion funding gap for social enterprises.
To disseminate Argidius Foundation's SCALE Framework, ANDE and local partners hosted a workshop in Jakarta. Participants shared best practices, challenges, and innovative strategies to enhance BDS impact.
This November 11, 2024, discover financing strategies, engage, learn, and share to drive MSME innovation.
The EIT Climate-KIC report on East Africa’s climate innovation underscores the need for strategic collaborations to accelerate sustainable climate solutions.
A new policy framework by the Global Entrepreneurship Network and Youth Business International outlines strategic steps to empower and accelerate youth entrepreneurship, focusing on education, policy, and access to resources.
In December, join our flagship regional event to explore strategic regional approaches to support SGBs, impact investing, and innovative financing solutions.
Six entrepreneur support organizations receiving $700,000 in funding to catalyze investment in the waste and circular economy.
Every entrepreneur operates within an ecosystem that determines the access to talent, finance, and markets that they need to grow their business. ANDE’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Maps serve as a tool for stakeholders to learn about the organizations providing support to small and growing businesses (SGBs) in a specific city, region, or country.
This mapping identified 140 organizations and nearly 170 distinct resources supporting entrepreneurs across Ethiopia. The online mapping provides a filterable directory of these organizations, categorized by sector, location, and support type. The mapping is complemented by a report analyzing the data and synthesizing key trends in the ecosystem.
Kenya's waste management and circularity sector offers significant opportunities for investors, driven by economic growth, increasing waste generation, growing regulations and innovations. This introductory guide is the first in a series that also includes investment guides that deep dive into each of the highest opportunity sub-sectors in Kenya’s waste and circularity sector: plastic waste, wastewater, organic waste and integrated waste management. These guides provide further information on trends, opportunities, policies and challenges, as well as further details on the main identified business models and their financing needs and case studies of successful businesses.
This landscape guide is intended to outline India’s current context in recycling and circularity, with a focus on the investment potential, opportunities and business models in the ten most significant waste streams in India. It provides a framework for how investment potential in a waste stream can be determined, which covers five areas that define that potential: market size and growth; investable start-up pipeline; product readiness; policy support; financing needs and gaps. The guide also includes a historical outline of investments and funding in each waste stream and outlines the roles and participation of various types of equity funders, along with the potential and participation of non-dilutive funding options.
The partnership between USAID CATALYZE Market Systems for Growth (MS4G) and ANDE seeks to enhance business support services and facilitate investments to foster private sector growth and resilience in Ethiopia.
Come and explore the extraordinary journeys of entrepreneurs—small and growing businesses—working alongside ANDE members across the globe. Here is a sample: videos where these trailblazers share their own remarkable stories.
Listen to leaders from our member organizations describe their efforts to develop ecosystems for small and growing businesses in the Global South.