To help countries and territories reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 we draw on KPMG’s subject matter professionals in areas such as infrastructure, health, public finance, economic development, smart cities, and many others.
Indicative Case Studies
Indicative Case Studies provides the case studies to help development actors achieve their goals in four major service categories.
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.
Our insights
KPMG’s network has deep insights from working with public sector and government organizations around the world. Whether looking to improve operational efficiency, drive more value from existing infrastructure, manage challenges associated with delivering better services for less or anything in between, our network of professionals has ideas.
Our people
No matter what your challenge, KPMG’s local teams bring an innovative but practical approach to problem solving that reflects their keen understanding of the local public sector operating environment and relevant private sector insights to achieve sustainable results.
Mark Fitzgerald
Global Head, International Development Assistance Services, KPMG International and Principal
KPMG International
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