As donor priorities shift and market needs evolve, SGB-support leaders face a clear mandate for 2026: move from ideas to execution. Join ANDE in Washington, D.C., April 13–14, for an exclusive convening for member Executive Leadership and Section Leaders—focused on removing friction, proving impact, and driving market-aligned pipelines.
This Spring, come for the cherry blossoms, stay for the resource flows.
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
Accelerate Prosperity’s portfolio shows climate entrepreneurship is rising—but fragmented markets, weak value chains, and limited capital slow scale. Targeted pipelines, credible measurement, and ecosystem coordination can unlock investable growth.
India’s DPDP Rules, notified on November 13, 2025, turn privacy into day-to-day operational obligations. Here’s what counts as personal data, how consent changes, and what organizations should do now.
Global Disability Innovation Hub’s Bala Nagendran Marimuthu shares three frameworks—from inclusive cities to clean energy and climate planning—that help policymakers move beyond stereotypes and embed disability inclusion in program design.
With only a fraction of Kenya's daily waste being recycled, the potential for circular innovation is immense. ANDE’s latest toolkit, born from our Climate and Environment Action Lab, empowers ESOs and investors to support SGBs driving the circular economy. Discover actionable insights on program design, impact measurement, and ecosystem collaboration to help Kenyan entrepreneurs turn waste into long-term economic value.
In KINETIK–ANDE–ROI Investment Manager Training sessions, Roots of Impact showed how impact-linked finance ties better terms to verified outcomes—turning measurement into strategy, strengthening credibility, and rewarding meaningful performance.
Lessons from Seedstars’ work across Asia and Africa, shared by Tom Sebastian, Regional Director of Partnerships (Asia & APAC).
How Seedstars uses Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning to reduce exclusion while programs are still running.
UNDP’s two-front approach, strengthening internal DEI systems while embedding inclusion across programs, offers practical MEL tools, accountability mechanisms, and syndicate strategies SGB support organizations can adopt to create lasting, inclusive ecosystems.
Good intentions don’t build durable climate solutions. Systems do.
At an ANDE session, ONOW demonstrated DayTwo, a lightweight tool that turns daily transactions into usable financial histories, helping lenders assess risk and helping entrepreneurs access growth capital.
This blog featured Ahmad Azuar Zazuddin, CEO of Satu Creative, who demonstrated how human-centered design can transform enterprise support in emerging markets.
Unlocking patient, credible capital for climate and inclusion through regional collaboration, blended finance, and stronger impact standards.
Elevating business development services for lasting impact in the Global South.
Upcoming Events
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.
