Development and SDG Impact

Large Multilateral Organization

KPMG in Bangladesh along with KPMG in India worked with a multilateral organization to design and implement a pilot platform to finance and localize support for SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation (WASH) in Bangladesh. The platform helps pool private and public financial and technical resources, drives resource allocation, and serves as a resource to coordinate a WASH strategy. The project also included a workshop with chambers of commerce, local government agencies, NGOs, and private service providers to test business models for engaging organizations operating in the water industry. KPMG in Bangladesh also developed  SDG indicators specific to the location to monitor progress, identified data gaps, and assessed the overall size of the funding market for water sanitation projects. Finally, the team developed a checklist to cover potential financing and localization options and to encourage private investment in the sector. The resulting toolkit included guidelines for establishing partnerships to achieve SDG 6.1—access to clean drinking water grounded on the institutional and regulatory requirements in Bangladesh.

Enhancing Impact of Cooperatives

KPMG member firms in the U.S. and in Costa Rica worked with COOP Americas, a member of the International Cooperative Alliance, to develop a strategic plan, define its value proposition, and set up an SDG-aligned roadmap of initiatives for 2020–2023. Based on a membership survey and landscaping exercise, the team incorporated relevant leading practices to meet SDG priorities and helped frame the strategic plan. The team led a training program focused on skills in project design aligned with the SDGs and approaches to working with international financial institutions. As a result, COOP Americas was able to expand its development sector activities with its membership and more effectively engage in the global dialog on the SDGs.

Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj (Village) Department

The local self-governing bodies in India’s Andhra Pradesh state work with 34 million rural citizens on areas as varied as education, health, livelihoods, governance, and water/sanitation (WASH). KPMG in India worked with the state government to develop action plans targeting seven SDGs and aligned with its U.S. $5.6 billion budget working across 25 agencies and over 150,000 staff members.

Recommendations made by the KPMG team fostered SDG-aligned planning and implementation and conceptualized an information and communications technology system to bridge siloes and synergize planning efforts among local authorities, the state government, and community-based organizations involved in this implementation. These efforts laid the foundation for implementing the SDGs at scale.