ANDE East and Southeast Asia

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.

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The Heifer International expert emphasizes inclusive, sustainable development that strengthens women, youth, and marginalized groups to build resilient livelihoods and systemic agricultural change.

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How Seedstars uses Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning to reduce exclusion while programs are still running.

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Our latest SGB Finance Series session explored how Impact-Linked Finance is rewarding enterprises for achieving measurable social outcomes. Check out the key lessons shaping the next wave of innovative finance.

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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.

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Three practitioners share honest lessons on how to set up practical workplace accommodations, how venue failures became learning opportunities, and why inclusive budgeting isn't just good ethics—it's smart business.

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The circular economy is often framed as an environmental agenda. In Central and South Asia, however, it is increasingly an economic one.

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ANDE believes SGBs can play a critical role in addressing systemic gender challenges and develop best practices to make the ecosystem more welcoming for women.

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Launched in 2019, ASEAN Access connects small businesses across Southeast Asia with trade intelligence, matchmaking, and training.

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Commercial agriculture is responsible for at least 30% of deforestation in Asia, but the world needs agriculture to feed a growing population. Most farmers in East and Southeast Asia work on a small scale and stay poor. But farming as a business has enormous potential to generate income for people living in rural areas if it’s done responsibly, sustainably, and at scale.

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