Small and growing businesses sit between livelihood ventures and large firms, often without the capital or support to scale.
ANDE focuses on closing that gap, because no other part of the economy does more to create jobs and broaden prosperity.
From the Blog
Villgro Philippines Co-Founder and CEO Priya Thachadi on the gap between climate enterprises already restoring ecosystems and the capital, policy and metrics still catching up to them.
Findings from ANDE's first Asia Ecosystem Funder Convening are now available to ANDE members.
Written by Thao Dam, Program Associate, New Energy Nexus Vietnam
Catalyzing Climate Conversations Episode 3: Pratap Raju, Founding Partner of Climate Collective, discusses entrepreneurship, AI, impact measurement, and the local ecosystems shaping climate innovation across South Asia.
Shobha Venkataraman, Board Member of EPIC World Foundation is drawing attention to a segment of India's economy that often falls between familiar categories: Entrepreneurial Households.
The innovation fund is backing SGB’s tackling digital inclusion, clean energy access, and device circularity in emerging markets.
The circular economy is often framed as an environmental agenda. In Central and South Asia, however, it is increasingly an economic one.
How ANDE’s Asia chapters facilitated the Access & Opportunity Learning Lab—while learning alongside participants and reflecting on their own practice
How the ANDE Asia chapters built on the 2024 Learning Series—and what a regional needs assessment revealed about disability and gender inclusion.
Vera Solutions was founded by impact measurement practitioners and self-described data geeks who asked a simple question: What if our data actually worked for us?
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.
ANDE South Asia and ANDE East and Southeast Asia are coming together for the first Pan-Asia Convening, online July 14–16. Three days of cross-border exchange for the people building Asia’s entrepreneurship ecosystems.
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.
Member Spotlight
Listen to leaders from our member organizations
describe their efforts to develop ecosystems for small
and growing businesses in the Global South.
