Sustainable Development Goals Fund

How we work

results-oriented and people-centered UN programmes

This is how the SDG Fund brings together UN agencies, governments, businesses and civil society to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We work on the ground with local partners to maximize our impact.

16 UN agencies

Through our joint programmes, UN agencies come together under the leadership of each country’s resident coordinator.

Working across the UN

The UN development system consists of many specialized agencies. Each has unique capacities, expertise, and networks.

Public-private partnerships for SDGs

We work closely with our Private Sector Advisory Group. Our focus on partnerships through the UN is opening new opportunities for the public and private sectors to co-design, co-invest and co-implement programmes on the ground.

Bringing business on board

In order to achieve the SDGs by 2030, the private sector must be fully on board. Private companies bring creativity, resources and innovation.

Programme countries provide 25% of the resources

All our joint programmes are aligned with national priorities, as agreed by the UN and each national government in the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF). Most country programmes contribute their own resources.

The best strategy

Governments at municipal, regional and national levels assume ownership more readily when initiatives are built using their vision, strategy, and framework.

Breaking silos

Joint programmes provide multi-faceted, integrated, and holistic approaches that contribute to achieving several SDGs simultaneously.

Connecting the dots

The 2030 Agenda is a multidimensional roadmap. It takes into account connecting factors, such as that lack of income negatively affects one’s health, education and livelihood.

More than 20 donors

National partners match 56% of our programme resources, increasing impact, ownership, relevance and sustainability. Every dollar invested in the SDG Fund has generated 2.36 dollars in the programme budget.

Catalyzing investments

Our matching funds system requires that every financial contribution made through the SDG Fund be matched, at least one-to-one, by the joint programme partners.

Creative global leaders

Renowned artists, chefs, musicians and architects are among those leading the way in SDG implementation with creative new approaches to sustainable development.

The creative economy

The creative industries are not only among the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, but are transformative in terms of income generation, job creation and export earnings.

A dual strategy

We take two approaches towards the goal of gender equality: mainstreaming gender in all SDG Fund programmes and empowering women with targeted programmes.

On the frontlines for equality

Women and girls make up more than half the world’s population and they are often more negatively impacted by poverty, climate change, food insecurity, lack of healthcare, and global economic crises.

What we do

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

We work with UN agencies, governments, civil society, business, academia and local communities to achieve SDGs. This is how our programmes are contributing to SDGs.

Latest news

Organic agriculture improves nutrition and reduces female poverty in rural El Salvador

Ana Reina Salvador is one of the hundreds of women heads of households who have participated in the SDG Fund's "SANNHOS" program, organizing her own family garden to cover her nutritional needs and producing healthy and nutritious food for their community.

UN presents a new toolkit for action on how sports can contribute to achieve SDGs

With the World Cup at the center of conversations around the world, the UN hosted a different type of discussion on sports: how by bringing together governments, athletes, civil society, sport companies and private sector, sport can contribute to the achievement of the sustainable development goals.

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We work to improve the lives of people and fight poverty

We bring UN agencies, governments, civil society and private sector together to achieve SDGs

Joint Programmes in +20 countries improving more than 3.5 million lives

We promote public-private partnerships to achieve the SDGs

+50% of our resources are matched by national partners, improving impact, ownership, relevance and sustainability

Around 70% of our programmes and participants are women and girls

Global creative leaders are leading the SDGs implementation

The SDG Fund Private Sector Advisory Group is composed by leaders business leaders of major companies from various industries worldwide

results-oriented and people-centered UN programmes

16 UN agencies

Working across the UN

Public-private partnerships for SDGs

Bringing business on board

Programme countries provide 25% of the resources

The best strategy

Breaking silos

Connecting the dots

More than 20 donors

Catalyzing investments

Creative global leaders

The creative economy

A dual strategy

On the frontlines for equality

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Latest news

Organic agriculture improves nutrition and reduces female poverty in rural El Salvador

UN presents a new toolkit for action on how sports can contribute to achieve SDGs

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