ANDE provides its members with a wide range of resources to support Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs), including training and workshops, a library of evidence and guidance, convening spaces for practitioners, and funding opportunities.
Ande conducts and supports research to answer crucial questions for practitioners and funders in the SGB sector. Our research activities, including the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative, Knowledge Hub, SGB Evidence Fund, and flagship publications such as the State of the Sector reports and ecosystem snapshots, help bridge the knowledge gap for SGB support organizations.
ANDE partners with donors to fund organizations supporting SGBs in developing economies. The funding encourages innovative investments and explores how small businesses can contribute to the sustainable development goals.
ANDE’s groups, including Learning Labs and Action Labs, are neutral convening spaces for diverse practitioners to share best practices and new research, discuss hot topics, and learn from one another. They also offer a venue for joint research or action on key issues. Most are open only to ANDE members.
The ANDE Asia Annual Report 2025 highlights a year of collaboration, learning, and action across the region’s small and growing business (SGB) ecosystem. Amid evolving markets and increasing expectations around impact, inclusion, and climate outcomes, ANDE and its members continued to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems through practical capacity building, innovative programs, and strategic partnerships.
From flagship trainings like Investment Manager Training and SCALE 360 to member showcases, research dissemination, Access and Opportunity Learning Lab, and Climate and Environment Learning Lab, the report captures key milestones, member voices, and regional insights that shaped 2025. It also reflects on the collective progress made by ecosystem builders, investors, and partners working together to unlock capital, scale solutions, and drive inclusive economic growth—while setting the stage for deeper collaboration and impact in 2026.
This report provides an overview of the 2025 Inaugural Pan Africa Conference, hosted by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), held in Dakar, Senegal, from February 11–13.
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 Global Newsletter
ANDE sends out the Global Newsletter on the first Monday of every month to thousands of organizations and practitioners worldwide. This specialized channel is a valuable resource that keeps our subscribers updated on the work ANDE’s members do to promote entrepreneurship ecosystems, new sector opportunities, upcoming events, job postings in the development sector, and essential new resources. ANDE members can access our archive of recent editions on our dedicated webpage. If you’re not subscribed yet, sign up to stay well-informed and connected.
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.
ANDE’s Career Center features job postings from ANDE members.