GLOBAL Private Finance for the SDGs
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About Us

UNDP's Private Finance for the SDGs leverages, scales, and aligns private sector investments to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Our Team

Our team comprises experts passionate about driving private sector investments towards achieving the SDGs.

Our Partners

We collaborate with partners to drive sustainable private investment solutions, leveraging diverse expertise and resources to help achieve the SDGs.

Contact Us

For inquiries about partnerships, the SDG Investor Platform, or connecting with stakeholders, please contact us. Our team is here to help.

SDG Investor Platform

Discover comprehensive market intelligence on SDG-aligned investment prospects, including Investment Opportunity Areas, countries, sectors, and targeted SDGs.

Financial Centres for Sustainability

Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) is a global network of 44 financial centres collaborating to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement.

Growth Stage Impact Ventures

The Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV) programme identifies and supports successful enterprises from developing countries that significantly contribute to the SDGs and integrate impact considerations into their decision-making processes.

Impact Venture Hub

The Impact Venture Hub accelerates sustainable development by supporting high-impact ventures, building a global network of mission-driven organizations and stimulating impactful investments.

Insurance and Risk Finance Facility

The Insurance and Risk Finance Facility (IRFF) develops innovative insurance solutions in 34 countries, aiming to expand to 50 by 2025, to protect vulnerable communities and transform insurance markets for greater resilience.

Thematic Bonds

UNDP extends its thematic debt expertise to corporates and private institutions, facilitating the issuance of thematic bonds to unlock capital for projects with significant environmental and social benefits.

Impact Management and Measurement Trainings

Access the management standards designed to guide businesses and investors to embed sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals at the core of internal management and decision-making practices.

Integrated National Financing Frameworks

Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs) provide a framework for financing national sustainable development priorities and the SDGs at the country level.

News

Our news centre is your source for the latest stories, press releases, blogs, and other updates.

Publications

Our publications section offers the SDG Impact Standards, reports, and other research.

Business Case Studies

Find enterprises that measure and manage their impact on people and planet, working towards realizing their contributions to the SDGs.

Coffee farmer
Uganda
NUCAFE empowers smallholder farmers to create an end-to-end coffee processing value chain
NUCAFE, a UNDP Business Call to Action (BCtA) member and a UNCDF pipeline company, empowers farmers in Uganda with access to the coffee value chain - all the way from farm processing to manufacturing and exporting. Access to these services is enhanced with technical skills training, business development, and farmer organization governance and management training.

SDGs

2 - Zero Hunger, 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

Sectors

Food and Beverage

IOAS

Food processing and collection services
Powerstove products and sample users
Nigeria
Powerstove provides affordable and sustainable energy solutions to meet household’s energy demand
Established in 2018, Powerstove develops affordable and sustainable energy solutions to meet the energy demand from households in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Powerstove clean cookstove combines clean energy, IoT and mobile phone technology.

SDGs

7 - Affordable and Clean Energy, 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Sectors

Consumer Goods

IOAS

Improved cooking stoves
Farmers as potential ACRE Africa customers
Kenya
Rwanda
ACRE Africa provides micro-insurance products to strengthen farmer resilience
Africa-based insurance service provider ACRE Africa, a UNDP Business Call to Action (BCtA) member, provides micro-insurance products to strengthen the resilience of African farmers to climate risks.

SDGs

1 - No Poverty, 3 - Good Health and Well-Being, 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

Sectors

Financials

IOAS

Farmer insurances, Micro insurance
ECOLOO toilet in action
Ghana
South Africa
ECOLOO offers water-free biological toilets improving sanitation and saving lives
ECOLOO, a UNDP Business Call to Action (BCtA) member, specializes in sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene solutions and provides sustainable and affordable toilets to low-income communities.

SDGs

1 - No Poverty, 3 - Good Health and Well-Being, 6 - Clean water and sanitation

Sectors

Infrastructure

IOAS

Dry sanitation technologies, On-site sanitation for public and private facilities, Sanitation services
Equator Kenya chilies harvesting in Kenya
Kenya
Equator Kenya increases farmer productivity through technology for irrigation, bio pesticides and fertilizer blends
Equator Kenya, a UNDP Business Call to Action (BCtA) member dealing with dehydrated fruits and vegetable products, provides technology packages for irrigation, bio pesticides and fertilizer blends to smallholder farmers, which result in higher yields and greater incomes.

SDGs

2 - Zero Hunger, 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

Sectors

Food and Beverage

IOAS

Fruit processing
CityTaps scene
Kenya
Uganda
CityTaps scales digital solutions in the water sector through smart metering and mobile money
CityTaps, a UNDP Business Call to Action (BCtA) member, is a technology and service company on a quest to bring running water into the homes of the world’s urban poor. Its Pay-As-You-Go and Smart water metering solution offers water utilities in developing countries a new and sustainable business model.

SDGs

1 - No Poverty, 3 - Good Health and Well-Being, 6 - Clean water and sanitation

Sectors

Infrastructure, Food and Beverage

IOAS

Drinking water distillation and distribution, Water purification
Aimcare activity
Nigeria
Aimcare improves women and child health through pharma inventory financing, education, water and sanitation products
Aimcare, a UNDP Business Call to Action (BCtA) member, promotes personal hygiene through healthcare products and services in low-income communities in Nigeria.

SDGs

3 - Good Health and Well-Being

Sectors

Health Care

IOAS

Healthcare consumables
Vanu installation
Ghana
Nigeria
South Africa
Vanu connects the unconnected through sustainable connectivity to off-grid markets
Vanu, a UNDP Business Call to Action (BCtA) member, is a global provider of turnkey mobile communications solutions that allow mobile network operators to serve off-grid markets. Its innovative technology enables cellular coverage in areas that cannot be covered profitably with existing technology.

SDGs

1 - No Poverty, 4 - Quality Education, 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, 17 - Partnerships For the Goals

Sectors

Technology and Communications, Infrastructure

IOAS

Mobile broadband distribution, Mobile internet hotspots, Off-grid solar WiFi
Unjani Clinics office in South Africa
South Africa
Unjani Clinics empowers healthcare through an Enterprise Development Approach in South Africa
Unjani Clinics, which has engaged with UNDP South Africa, provides quality and affordable private healthcare to South Africa’s low-income communities. The Network of nearly 100 clinics empowers professional nurses as healthcare providers, enhances access to care and supports health systems strengthening.

SDGs

3 - Good Health and Well-Being

Sectors

Health Care

IOAS

Modular medical facilities