Donate to the Sustainable Development Goals

Donate to the Sustainable Development Goals

With just nine years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals—the time has come to deliver on our 2030 promise. Our shared vision to end poverty, rescue the planet and build a peaceful world has never been so critical as the pandemic wreaks havoc across the world. 

Act Now for the SDGs and support a brighter future for the most vulnerable people and the planet. 

Your contribution will go to the United Nations Joint SDG Fund which has funded 125 joint programmes and proposals in 97 countries/territories, stimulated over 600 partnerships working together alongside the UN, and tested over 100 innovative solutions to accelerate the 2030 Agenda to date.

The Joint SDG Fund is a multi-partner trust fund. This means contributions it receives are not entity-specific, but aim to support broader UN system-level functions. In this way, it differs from restrictive earmarked funding which can fuel competition and hamper cooperation among UN entities. This type of pooled funding used by multi-partners trust funds, like the Joint SDG Fund is widely considered ‘multilateralism-friendly’ – and is much more suitable for the integrated support at scale essential for achieving the 2030 Agenda.  Flexibility in reallocating funds has also proven critical for rapid responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

WHAT MAKES THE JOINT SDG FUND SPECIAL?

If the world is to “build back better” toward a much more sustainable, just and equitable world – and get on a trajectory to achieve the SDGs – we need to get the right economic, social and environmental policies in place and mobilize the financing required to bring those policies to scale as soon as possible. Big picture – this is why the Joint SDG Fund is so important.

Stimulating shifts in the uptake of integrated and transformative policies can lead to the creation of smart financing strategies that put SDG progress into high gear at global, regional, and country levels. The programmes we support are all nationally owned and led, each built on a country’s unique United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDG).

If we want to Leave No One Behind we have to fast track SDG gains while mainstreaming issues related to human rights, gender, youth, the environment, and people living with disabilities. The Joint SDG Fund aims to inspire a shift in the way we “do development” by placing the focus on integrated policy, strategic investments and financing, and robust partnerships. We incentivize partners to adopt strategic financing and integrated policy solutions because smarter, collective investments can accelerate the SDGs.