UN Pooled Funds

Building on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Fund, the Joint SDG Fund is an inter-agency mechanism for strategic financing and integrated policy support. The Fund backs United Nations efforts across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals and cross-cutting areas so programme countries can accelerate SDG progress on the path to 2030 Agenda achievement.

The Accelerating Progress toward the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women is a global programme of the FAO, IFAD, WFP and UN Women. Implemented in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Nepal, Niger and Rwanda, the Joint Programme seeks to improve rural women’s food and nutrition security, increase their income to sustain livelihoods, enhance their participation in decision-making, and create a

The Fund supports the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD), a unique collaborative effort that brings together UN entities, governments, disabled people’s organizations and the broader civil society to advance disability rights around the world.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Group Human Rights Mainstreaming Fund (UNSDG-HRM Fund) aims to strengthen system-wide coherence, collaboration and support for Resident Coordinators and the UN Country Teams on human rights mainstreaming in UN operational activities for development, as well as to strengthen the coherence of UN responses to national priorities, thus ensuring strong nationa

The United Nations Secretary General’s Peacebuilding Fund is the organization’s financial instrument of first resort to sustain pace in countries or situations at risk or affected by violent conflict. It responds quickly and with flexibility to opportunities for peacebuilding, catalyzing processes and resources in a risk-tolerant fashion.

Accelerating progress towards economic empowerment of rural women in Nepal