India, UN review development partnership fund’s operations
Both parties exchanged views on the future scope of the Fund.
The Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in a post on
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The India-UN Development Partnership Fund promotes shared prosperity in the global South. Together with the multilateral system, it contributes to the initiatives of developing countries towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The statement stated that the $150 million India-UN Development Partnership Fund, established in 2017, is supported and managed by the Government of India and implemented in cooperation with the United Nations system. The Fund supports Southern-owned and led, demand-driven and transformational sustainable development projects in the developing world, with a focus on least developed countries and small island developing states. United Nations agencies carry out Fund projects in close cooperation with partner Governments.
The India-UN Development Partnership Fund’s Commonwealth Window aims to facilitate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, a voluntary association of independent and equal sovereign States comprising mostly former territories of the British Empire, including India.
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Countries supported by this Commonwealth Window are located around the world and, according to the statement, include some of the Commonwealth’s most vulnerable Member States.
Technical and sustainable development and collective national development efforts among Commonwealth countries are particularly timely and beneficial given their common history, mutual respect, shared values, and similar institutional, technical and practical instruments that continue to guide and influence their political, regulatory and cultural life. In the statement, it was stated that Commonwealth Window supports demand-driven, country-owned and transformational sustainable development projects.
