COP30 highlighted the vital role of small and growing businesses in delivering climate solutions. ANDE advanced evidence, convenings, and member contributions that strengthened supply chain inclusion, climate finance alignment, and Global South leadership. The summit reaffirmed that SGBs are central to climate resilience and must remain integral to future climate frameworks.
Big challenges call for big collaborations. ANDE’s new Coalition & Consortium Requests to Partner feature helps members connect early, find the right partners, and co-create bold, systems-change initiatives.
Use this member-only tool to submit partnership needs, explore collaboration opportunities, and help ANDE strengthen credible, high-impact consortia.
From the Blog
Day One revealed a bold blueprint for transformation: green financing strategies, NGO-to-enterprise pivots, and skills development.
Sujata Rathi of FSG discusses how green SGBs face distinct barriers in access to finance and capacity building.
ANDE Asia Climate and Environmental Learning Lab unpacked key insights from Charging Ahead – Part II, a collaborative report by GameChanger Law Advisors and Speciale Invest.
New commitments in finance, innovation, and Africa’s leadership signal unprecedented opportunities for MSMEs.
The World Bank’s 2025 report shows AI adoption lagging among small firms. Supporting AI-enabled SMEs is now essential for inclusive growth.
In this Member Spotlight, Carole Ramella, Managing Director of GFA Consulting, highlights how the firm helps SMEs strengthen their internal systems to become genuinely investment-ready. Through tools such as the Business Diagnostic and Financial Control Tool, GFA provides clear insights, actionable priorities, and reliable financial visibility.
In this Member Spotlight, Parul Soni, Founder and Secretary General of ABWCI, shares how the organization champions women entrepreneurs through access to markets, finance, technology, and networks, fostering global collaborations for inclusive economic growth.
Launched in 2019, ASEAN Access connects small businesses across Southeast Asia with trade intelligence, matchmaking, and training.
Participants discussed Mexico’s $1.7B impact investing growth, women as central to energy transitions, and more.
Women-led agribusinesses take center stage at IFIF 2025 in Tamale, connecting with investors to bridge financing gaps.
Nobel laureate Esther Duflo and ANDE’s Devin Chesney discussed evidence-driven aid, entrepreneurship, and how to scale what truly works. Read or watch here the interview presented during the ANDE Global Annual Conference in Cancún on September 30.
The first day of the ANDE Global Conference 2025 spotlighted challenges and opportunities, from rethinking aid priorities to building ecosystems and measuring real impact.
Elevating business development services for lasting impact in the Global South.
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Lead the change in your ecosystem. ANDE is looking for member organizations with deep national expertise to help shape our programming and drive impact locally. As a Country Champion, you’ll play a key role in tackling pressing challenges and strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems. Ready to lead?
Our Research
Business development service (BDS) programmes, such as accelerators and incubators, are increasingly looked to as promising ways to help entrepreneurs enhance their business skills, expand their networks, and access investment. In Fiji, there is a small but quickly growing entrepreneurial ecosystem supported by over a dozen BDS programmes. This report seeks to characterize the BDS landscape and form recommendations for its continued growth based on international research and established best practices from other ecosystems across the globe.
In this report, the authors assess the practices of Fiji's BDS providers against the SCALE principles, a set of recommendations published in 2021 by the Argidius Foundation which reflect global best practices for BDS provision. This study identified a total of 21 BDS programmes in the Fijian ecosystem administered by 14 service providers, including eight accelerators, five incubators, and eight additional programmes such as co-working spaces, grantmaking facilities, and technical assistance. Based on desk research and interviews with programme managers, the authors assessed Fiji’s accelerator and incubator landscape as moderately applying the SCALE principles.
The concept of gender-lens acceleration has taken hold in recent years, with various toolkits outlining how to be more gender inclusive at every step of the acceleration process, from selection to programming and alumni support. However, it is not well understood how effective these strategies have been in producing more equitable outcomes for women. This report aims to fill that information gap by synthesizing the research on accelerating women-led ventures, exploring case studies of two accelerator programs in Asia that have outsized impacts for such ventures, and spotlighting other programs with unique program models or perspectives.
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.
Following deliberations at the Global Annual Conference in Cancún, Mexico ANDE outlines a focused strategy to meet this moment—one that puts growth back at the center of impact.
Growth is not a competing goal to impact; it is the engine that drives it.
Member Spotlight
Listen to leaders from our member organizations
describe their efforts to develop ecosystems for small
and growing businesses in the Global South.
