India-UN Fund: Impact of Projects Across Sectors

The India-UN Development Partnership Fund, a dedicated facility within United Nations Fund for South-South Cooperation, supports Southern-owned and led, demand-driven, and transformational sustainable development projects across the developing world.   What Happened in Early 2025? In the first quarter of 2025, the India Fund continued to support projects that promote all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With guidance from its Board of Directors, the Fund launched five new projects focused on real needs in different countries:

• 13 Caribbean countries (CARICOM): Helping pregnant women and babies stay healthy by preventing and treating HIV, syphilis, and Hepatitis B.
• Rwanda: Improving training for midwives to help reduce risks during pregnancy and childbirth.
• Burundi: Supporting young people through entrepreneurship, e-commerce, and better access to sexual and reproductive health services.
• Honduras: Strengthening climate resilience by improving access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
• Senegal: Clearing landmines to make communities safer and enable future development.

  Ongoing Projects: Real Impact, Real Change The Fund also continued to support several ongoing projects that are creating real, positive change for communities:

• In Paraguay, a project is improving healthcare for mothers and children in 13 Indigenous communities in the Chaco region.
• In Jamaica, farmers are gaining new skills in poultry and beekeeping, while learning to use new farming technologies.
• In Moldova, a project shared important knowledge with Armenia about how to collect and use data to guide decisions through the Generations and Gender Survey.

All the India Fund projects follow the principles of South-South cooperation, with countries of working together, and sharing knowledge, to help each other grow.   See the full list of projects and results here.