UNDP and Invest India launch the SDG Investor Map for India

09 December 2020: UNDP and Invest India have launched the SDG Investor Map for India, laying out 18 Investment Opportunities Areas (IOAs) in six critical SDG enabling sectors, that can help India push the needle forward on Sustainable Development.

Nearly 50% of the shortlisted IOAs have historical investments that have yielded IRRs in excess of 20%. 84% of the IOAs have investment timeframes ranging from the short term (less than 5 years) to the medium-term (between 5-15 years).

“The ‘SDG Investor Map for India’ initiative is an instrumental stride in India’s development trajectory, and I believe it couldn’t have come at a better time. We hope our data-backed research and insights serve as useful blueprints to understand how best the SDG financing gap can be narrowed in India”, said Deepak Bagla, CEO & MD, Invest India.

Shoko Noda, Resident Representative, UNDP India said “With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financing gap for the SDGs in India has only widened further and decades of development progress is nearly on the verge of reversal. Investing in the SDGs at this point is crucial to ‘Building Back Better’ and making the economy and our societies more resilient and sustainable.”