The Joint SDG Fund stands as the UN’s premier innovative funding mechanism, strategically designed to catalyze profound policy transformations and ignite the strategic investments essential for realigning the world on course to achieve the SDGs as stated in the United Nations Secretary-General's Funding Compact 2.0.

Working beside UN country teams under the leadership of UN Resident Coordinators, government officials, and local partners, the Fund ensures all initiatives align with country's unique development priorities. These strategic investments are designed to attract additional funding and expertise, mobilizing resources and capacities from different sources and creating momentum for sustainable change.

The Fund focuses on driving meaningful progress in key sustainable development areas including digital transformation, food systems, social protection and employment, localization of the Global Goals, and the transition to clean energy. Through its emphasis on integration, scale, speed, and sustainability, the Fund helps communities build a better future for all. As a global pooled fund of the UN development system, the Joint SDG Fund is a cost-effective instrument to facilitate fast, collective and catalytic action in response to needs in partner countries.

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“The Joint SDG Fund – a catalyst of cutting-edge solutions that accelerate sustainable development. The Fund crowds in resources for SDG action, but it is more than a financing mechanism. It embodies a new way of thinking, recognizing the interconnectedness of our goals and uniting diverse stakeholders in a coordinated effort.”

Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General.

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Total joint programmes
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Countries and territories working towards the 2030 Agenda
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Remarkable leverage ratio

Programmes


Digital Transformation

Focusing on emerging technologies to transform governments, economies, and supporting societies to achieve the SDGs.

Education and Skills

Elevating education and skills development as a top priority for global leaders, building support and developing practical solutions to transform education.

Energy Transition

Ensuring a just, affordable, and inclusive global energy transition, aligned with the Global Goals.

Food Systems Transformation

Supporting countries to create healthier, fairer, and more sustainable ways of producing and distributing food.

SDG Localization

Working with local leaders in collaboratively sharing solutions, unlocking bottlenecks and implementing strategies that advance the SDGs at local level.

Social Protection & Jobs

Creating quality jobs, inclusive economies, and extending social protection to those who need them most.

Development Emergency Modality

Rapidly funding countries to address socio-economic, food, energy and fuel crises.

Small Island Developing States

Strengthening resilience and ending the vulnerabilities of SIDS to accelerate the SDGs.

SDG Financing and Investments

Developing a new wave of financing strategies and creating market opportunities for scaling up SDG investment.

Where we work

Joint SDG Fund supports countries in accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by integrating economic, social and environmental policies and applying multi-dimensional and cross-sectoral approach to complex social challenges. A broad range of partners have strategically invested in SDG acceleration that is tailored to different country context. Learn more about the implemented programmes through the UN country webpage.

The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or any area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

High Impact Track

Initiatives focused on identifying and scaling sustainable, market-ready business and financing solutions for the SDGs. This expansion approach specifically focuses on leveraging UN entity resources and capacities to enhance the scalability and financial additionality of SDG-focused programme.

Seed Funding Track

Supporting countries to incubate transformative solutions and contribute to an enabling environment to accelerate progress that will move future investments and strategies to achieving the SDGs.

2024 Annual Report

The Joint SDG Fund stands as a powerful and innovative tool to drive real change, transcend conventional development methods and unlock additional financing to drive sustainable development at scale. Since its inception, the Fund has committed over US$380 million to provide urgent support to people across the globe. More crucially, the fund has unlocked an additional US$6.6 billion in parallel financing since 2018 through its innovative financing structure. This demonstrates how the Joint SDG Fund can catalyze and mobilize resources far beyond what traditional development funding achieves alone. 

All joint programmes of the Joint SDG Fund are led by UN Resident Coordinators and implemented by the agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations development system. With sincere appreciation for the contributions from the European Union and Governments of Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland for a transformative movement towards achieving the SDGs by 2030.

Partnerships

Strategic partnerships are critical for long-term success. Resources and networks are needed to accelerate the SDGs and get us closer to attaining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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