The Pan Africa Conference program presents a dynamic platform, spotlighting critical topics reshaping Africa’s entrepreneurial landscape.
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Unlock opportunities in plastic, e-waste, biomass, and solid waste with our latest reports, showcasing solutions for a sustainable future.
Our new guides highlight high-impact sub-sectors and innovative financing solutions for sustainable growth.
Save the date! On May 6-7, 2025, we will be convening in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a vibrant hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Day 3 Highlights from ANDE South Asia Convening 2024: Insights into scaling impact investment, boosting transparency, and enabling small businesses through supportive regulations.
Check out the agenda of this event that will bring together government representatives, private sector executives, investors, and practitioners focused on nurturing localized and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Insights from Day 2 of the ANDE South Asia Convening 2024, focusing on key learnings from Strengthening Regional Ecosystems for Small and Growing Businesses.
Highlights from Day 1 of the ANDE South Asia Convening 2024: Strengthening Regional Ecosystems for Small and Growing Businesses.
Overcoming critical challenges, we refined our strategic focus and deepened engagement in local ecosystems—laying the groundwork for more inclusive, impactful, and sustainable entrepreneurship support.
They can promote inclusive finance and economic growth through tailored solutions.
South Africa’s bold initiative amplifies township entrepreneurs' contributions, driving inclusive growth and showcasing peri-urban innovation on the world stage.
India's commitment to net-zero emissions by 2070 and ambitious renewable energy targets underscores its focus on sustainable growth. Despite significant progress, climate adaptation challenges remain. Discover how Global Business Inroads (GBI) drives cleantech and circular economy development by connecting innovators, markets, and investors through initiatives like the UK-India Net-Zero Innovation Program and Circular Fashion Platform. Using platforms like Global Technology Interface®, GBI fosters technology deployment, capacity building, and sustainable entrepreneurship, empowering businesses to scale, address environmental challenges, and create dignified jobs globally.
The ESEA team’s Scale through SCALE Workshop in Vietnam showcased valuable insights from a panel discussion centered on five key pillars: selecting the right enterprises, implementing cost-sharing to enhance performance, addressing critical challenges, leveraging evaluation for growth, and leading by example. These discussions underscore the significance of fostering a dynamic, inclusive ecosystem to empower scalable and impactful entrepreneurship across Southeast Asia.
Six entrepreneur support organizations receiving $700,000 in funding to catalyze investment in the waste and circular economy.
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.
Kenya's waste management and circularity sector offers significant opportunities for investors, driven by economic growth, increasing waste generation, growing regulations and innovations. This introductory guide is the first in a series that also includes investment guides that deep dive into each of the highest opportunity sub-sectors in Kenya’s waste and circularity sector: plastic waste, wastewater, organic waste and integrated waste management. These guides provide further information on trends, opportunities, policies and challenges, as well as further details on the main identified business models and their financing needs and case studies of successful businesses.
The partnership between USAID CATALYZE Market Systems for Growth (MS4G) and ANDE seeks to enhance business support services and facilitate investments to foster private sector growth and resilience in Ethiopia.
Come and explore the extraordinary journeys of entrepreneurs—small and growing businesses—working alongside ANDE members across the globe. Here is a sample: videos where these trailblazers share their own remarkable stories.
Listen to leaders from our member organizations describe their efforts to develop ecosystems for small and growing businesses in the Global South.