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ANDE STRATEGY
Sustainable prosperity for all peoples and communities in developing economies.
ANDE’s mission is to improve lives by strengthening the ecosystems that foster small and growing businesses in developing economies.
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ABOUT THE ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS
ANDE is a global network of organizations that propel entrepreneurship in developing economies.
ANDE members provide critical financial, educational, and business support services to small and growing businesses (SGBs) based on the conviction that SGBs will create jobs, stimulate long-term economic growth, and produce environmental and social benefits. Ultimately, we believe that SGBs can help lift countries out of poverty.
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ANDE's Strategy
ANDE serves as a catalyst in the SGB space, driving the conversation and pushing for the importance of SGBs in contributing to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or global goals).
While SGBs are relevant to all of the global goals, ANDE believes that SGBs can make a particularly significant contribution to addressing three target areas. Working alongside our members, ANDE catalyzes new approaches and scale existing efforts of SGB intermediaries that are fostering SGBs that embrace gender equality, climate and environmental action, and decent work and economic growth.
ANDE engages with donor agencies, philanthropic organizations, governments, investment funds, and global corporations — making the case for the prosperity-creating power of small and growing businesses.
ANDE embraces an ecosystem approach to our work, seeking to catalyze coordinated efforts to build and strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems through our central pillars — making the case for SGBs, increasing the effectiveness of SGB support organizations, and cultivating entrepreneurial ecosystems — while addressing the ongoing SGB sector challenges of talent development, SGB financing and impact investing, and impact management.
URGENT ISSUES
Gender equality via SGBs
Gender equality via SGBs
If half of the world’s population is left behind, significant progress on the SDGs is impossible. As UN Women points out, “all the SDGs depend on the achievement of Goal 5,” which calls for the achievement of gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls. Alongside other stakeholders, the SGB sector has an important role to play in achieving SDG 5.
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Entrepreneurial approaches to climate and environmental action
As communities around the world face new challenges due to unpredictable and extreme weather, rapidly depleting natural resources, and degradation of the land, water and air, scalable environmental solutions are needed to create more resilient economies. SGBs will inevitably have to confront climate and environmental changes that affect their customers, operations, and supply chains, and must therefore play a proactive role in taking needed steps to reduce their own emissions, support local adaptation and help build community resilience in support of SDG 6, 7, and 13.
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SGBs as drivers of decent work and economic growth
SGBs are critical to the achievement of SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. In developing economies, young and high-growth firms are net job creators and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) employ the majority of the workforce. The SGB sector must deeply consider the ways that technology will shape the workforce of the future, and consciously engage with both the promise and peril of emerging trends such as the “gig economy.”
Sustainable prosperity for all peoples and communities in developing economies.
ANDE’s mission is to improve lives by strengthening the ecosystems that foster small and growing businesses in developing economies.
THIS CONTENT IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN: ESPAÑOL, PORTUGUÊS
Accesso W2A0635FernandaPineda Sylvia Haiti
Credit: Acceso
ABOUT THE ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURS
ANDE is a global network of organizations that propel entrepreneurship in developing economies.
ANDE members provide critical financial, educational, and business support services to small and growing businesses (SGBs) based on the conviction that SGBs will create jobs, stimulate long-term economic growth, and produce environmental and social benefits. Ultimately, we believe that SGBs can help lift countries out of poverty.
READ ANDE OVERVIEW
ANDE's Strategy
ANDE serves as a catalyst in the SGB space, driving the conversation and pushing for the importance of SGBs in contributing to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or global goals).
While SGBs are relevant to all of the global goals, ANDE believes that SGBs can make a particularly significant contribution to addressing three target areas. Working alongside our members, ANDE catalyzes new approaches and scale existing efforts of SGB intermediaries that are fostering SGBs that embrace gender equality, climate and environmental action, and decent work and economic growth.
ANDE engages with donor agencies, philanthropic organizations, governments, investment funds, and global corporations — making the case for the prosperity-creating power of small and growing businesses.
ANDE embraces an ecosystem approach to our work, seeking to catalyze coordinated efforts to build and strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems through our central pillars — making the case for SGBs, increasing the effectiveness of SGB support organizations, and cultivating entrepreneurial ecosystems — while addressing the ongoing SGB sector challenges of talent development, SGB financing and impact investing, and impact management.
URGENT ISSUES
Gender equality via SGBs
Gender equality via SGBs
If half of the world’s population is left behind, significant progress on the SDGs is impossible. As UN Women points out, “all the SDGs depend on the achievement of Goal 5,” which calls for the achievement of gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls. Alongside other stakeholders, the SGB sector has an important role to play in achieving SDG 5.
READ ISSUE BRIEF
Entrepreneurial approaches to climate and environmental action
As communities around the world face new challenges due to unpredictable and extreme weather, rapidly depleting natural resources, and degradation of the land, water and air, scalable environmental solutions are needed to create more resilient economies. SGBs will inevitably have to confront climate and environmental changes that affect their customers, operations, and supply chains, and must therefore play a proactive role in taking needed steps to reduce their own emissions, support local adaptation and help build community resilience in support of SDG 6, 7, and 13.
READ ISSUE BRIEF
SGBs as drivers of decent work and economic growth
SGBs are critical to the achievement of SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. In developing economies, young and high-growth firms are net job creators and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) employ the majority of the workforce. The SGB sector must deeply consider the ways that technology will shape the workforce of the future, and consciously engage with both the promise and peril of emerging trends such as the “gig economy.”
Thought leadership from ANDE.
ANDE’s opinions and research have been featured in publications including Impact Alpha, Harvard Business Review, NextBillion, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and more. For media inquiries, please contact Natalie Alm.
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MARCH 30, 2022
ANDE Announces Winners of the Gender Lens Investment Pay for Results Fund
BY ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURSASPEN INSTITUTE
The funding will allow four investors to advance their gender lens investment capabilities.
GLOBAL LISTS
SEE STORYDECEMBER 21, 2021
ANDE Announces Eleven Gender Equality Initiative Action Lab Projects to Receive Grants
BY ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURSASPEN INSTITUTE
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) today announced eleven winning projects to receive funds through ANDE’s Gender Equality Action Labs.
GLOBAL, AND GENDER ACTION LAB, BRZ GENDER ACTION LAB, CAM GENDER ACTION LAB, EA GENDER ACTION LAB, ESEA GENDER ACTION LAB, IND CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT ACTION LAB, IND GENDER ACTION LAB, SA GENDER ACTION LAB, WA GENDER ACTION LAB
SEE STORYDECEMBER 15, 2021
ANDE Announces Winners of the Gender-Smart Investing Capacity Building Facility
BY ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURSASPEN INSTITUTE
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) today announced that five organizations have been selected to receive funds under the Gender-Smart Investing Capacity Building Facility.
GLOBAL
SEE STORYNOVEMBER 29, 2021
ANDE Announces Winners of the Accelerating Women Climate Entrepreneurs Fund
BY ASPEN NETWORK OF DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURSASPEN INSTITUTE
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) today announced that three organizations in Africa have been selected to receive funds under the Accelerating Women Climate Entrepreneurs (AWCE) Fund.
The AWCE Fund, an activity under the Accelerating Women Climate Entrepreneurs project, aims to contribute to poverty reduction and respond to climate change by identifying and promoting good practices to support women entrepreneurs in climate-related value chains. The AWCE project also places an emphasis on developing a road map for international development stakeholders to provide further gender-responsive support to women climate entrepreneurs and intermediaries.
GLOBAL, EAST AFRICA, SOUTH AFRICA, WEST AFRICA
SEE STORYNOVEMBER 23, 2021
Think Small to Fight Climate Change
BY RICHENDA VAN LEEUWEN, KRISTINA SKIERKAPROJECT SYNDICATE
Small businesses are integral to climate-change mitigation and adaptation, particularly in the developing world. But international policymakers and financial institutions routinely overlook their contribution, jeopardizing us all.
GLOBAL
SEE STORYJULY 1, 2021
Impact Investors Step Up to the Migration Challenge in Central America
BY DENNIS PRICEIMPACT ALPHA
As part of The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Guatemala Entrepreneurship and Development Innovation initiative, companies and private sector partners have committed $31 million to support entrepreneurs and businesses that can increase access to renewable energy and improve agriculture, water and sanitation, health, and education.
USAID will provide an additional $7.5 million in funding to the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs towork with its dozens of member incubators, accelerators, and financial institutions in the region to provide direct support and capital to farmers, entrepreneurs and business owners.
GLOBAL, CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO
SEE STORYJUNE 25, 2021
ANDE Announces Winners of the Second Round of the Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund
ASPEN INSTITUTE
The fund will allow three organizations to test models to increase investment into women-led small and growing businesses in western, southern, and eastern Africa.
GLOBAL, EAST AFRICA, SOUTH AFRICA, WEST AFRICA
SEE STORYJUNE 17, 2021
How to Make the Most Out of Business Accelerator Programs for Development
BY M GUTTENTAG, A. DAVIDSONSTANFORD SOCIAL INNOVATION REVIEW
Research on 23,000 ventures reveals factors that donors, managers, and entrepreneurs should consider as they choose to support, run, or use accelerators, the increasingly popular training programs that help businesses succeed.
GLOBAL
SEE STORYMAY 20, 2021
ANDE Releases Two New Reports on Impact of Acceleration Programs on Venture Growth
ASPEN INSTITUTE
Two new reports based on over five years of data from the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI) provide insights on the performance of ventures participating in acceleration programs.
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