South Africa’s townships are buzzing with entrepreneurial energy, yet a massive amount of potential remains locked away. At the recent KIP SIGNAL: Township Enterprise Intelligence Session, ecosystem leaders gathered to confront the barriers holding these markets back. The findings? A powerful mix of sobering challenges and a deeply hopeful roadmap for the future of local enterprise.
Donor leaders discussed shifting capital, stronger local ownership, digital finance, and why adaptation will define the next decade.
At ANDE's 2026 Leadership Convening, a policymaker, a global implementer, and an East African ecosystem leader described a sector being remade in real time and the choices that will determine who rebuilds it.
During a fireside chat with ANDE Executive Director Devin Chesney, Skoll Foundation President and CEO Marla Blow described what this moment demands: stronger ecosystems, bolder capital, and institutions willing to move from intention to action.
ANDE’s new model helps identify bottlenecks, map stakeholders, and guide more realistic interventions to strengthen entrepreneurship ecosystems.
El nuevo modelo de ANDE ayuda a identificar cuellos de botella, mapear actores y orientar intervenciones más realistas para fortalecer ecosistemas de emprendimiento.
Autor: José Ibañez
This report provides a data-driven situational analysis of the Entrepreneurship Support Organization (ESO) landscape across Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama. Based on original data from 75 organizations, it reveals an ecosystem anchored in experience but under strain due to chronic financial precarity and fragmented coordination. While ESOs achieve strong programmatic results, a critical gap remains in connecting early-stage ventures to growth capital.