Choose the engagement pathway that best fits your objectives. Many partners engage across more than one.
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Impact Procurement
Use purchasing power to strengthen suppliers and expand inclusive growth.
Corporate procurement spend is a powerful lever for resilience and inclusion. ANDE works with procurement teams and local ecosystem partners to identify, prepare, and connect SGB suppliers—supported by coalition learning, tools, and verification.
Economic Empowerment & Distribution Partnerships
Build inclusive distribution models that connect underserved markets to formal channels.
ANDE partners with corporations and intermediaries to strengthen ESOs and equip informal-sector entrepreneurs with the capabilities, networks, and operational readiness to participate in formal distribution systems—bringing essential goods and services closer to underserved communities.
Featured initiative: Kasipreneur Impact Project (KIP)
Ecosystem Development
Strengthen the enabling conditions that help entrepreneurs start, grow, and hire.
ANDE supports corporations, members, and philanthropic partners to build local ecosystem capacity—mobilizing resources, improving business development services, and convening stakeholders to address systemic barriers. Our work connects global agendas with locally relevant research, learning, and field-building partnerships.
Connected platforms: G20 Entrepreneurship Learning Series | COP30 engagements
Talent Engagement
Turn employee expertise into practical support for entrepreneurs and ESOs.
Through mentorship, social sabbaticals, and intrapreneurship programs, ANDE connects corporate employees with entrepreneurs and ESOs in emerging markets. These engagements are designed to deliver tangible value locally while strengthening leadership and innovation capabilities internally.
Members like SAP and MovingWorlds collaborate to embed impact into employee development through structured engagements that align business purpose with social innovation.
Open Innovation
Source, pilot, and scale solutions with entrepreneurs close to the problem.
ANDE helps corporations design innovation challenges, acceleration programs, and pilot partnerships that connect corporate innovation pipelines with locally rooted entrepreneurial ecosystems—supporting solution discovery, validation, and real-world testing.
ANDE is built for implementation. Our engagements typically combine four elements
Whether you’re looking to strengthen inclusive procurement, expand last-mile distribution, engage your talent, or run an innovation partnership, ANDE can help design a pathway from strategy to execution.
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Write to Flora Braco at flora.braco@aspeninstitute.org