Bringing a Gender Lens to Supporting Small and Growing Businesses: Insights from Brazil

From the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). The ANDE Brazil chapter and the IDS created a joint knowledge brief to share lessons and innovations from the Brazilian ecosystem on bringing a gender lens to supporting Brazilian SGBs. It focuses on four key topics to catalyse thought leadership on gender inclusion and investing in Brazil: understanding biases; recognising gender "intersects" with diversity issues; linking to investors; and attracting and retaining women in entrepreneur support programs.