Where we work
Asia and the Pacific
About us
UNDP works across 36 Asia-Pacific countries through 25 Country Offices, with a focus on aligning private finance with the SDGs built on a solid sustainable finance architecture and underpinned by robust public financial management.
Public finance: Creating an enabling environment for inclusive growth through climate-responsive tax and investment policies, SDG-aligned public budgets, sustainability-linked bonds, debt swaps, risk finance solutions and Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs).
Private sector: Employing market intelligence to build pipelines of sustainable enterprises, working with stock exchanges to align private-sector impact reporting with international standards, and expanding sustainability networks of financial intermediaries, financial centres and other actors such as FC4S.
Results include:
- Impact Standards for 623 publicly listed companies: UNDP and the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission launched an SDG Guidebook for Thai Listed Companies based on UNDP’s SDG Impact Standards and provided Impact Measurement and Management training.
- US$734 million mobilized from the sovereign thematic bond issuance in Indonesia, including a first-of-its-kind Blue Bond – raising US$150 million for marine ecosystem conservation
- 21 countries in the region have introduced the INFF approach in development planning
- US$358 million portfolio of bankable investment projects developed in Pakistan
