SDG Media Zone: Bridging the Financing Gap

A view of a SDG Media Zone event, "Bridging the financing gap".

Water is a sector which receives the lowest funding across all the SDGs, and mostly through public funding or philanthropic interventions which are not scaled. Water access, security and quality are not just developing country problems. These challenges cross boundaries. They are global. We need to build a new business model and develop a funding architecture for water, which we currently do not have. This is a call to address this finance gap, through a Finance, Innovation, Governance, Social Equity model for water.

Speakers: Henk Ovink, Water Envoy for Kingdom of the Netherlands; Joel Kolker, Global lead on water and finance, World Bank; Sulton Rakhimzoda, Special Envoy of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan for Water and Climate; and Moderator Usha Roa-Monari, Associate Administrator, UNDP.