I-4
Overview
Investing for Impact in India ( I-4) is a technology-based marketplace to enable the achievement of India’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by solving for challenges around SDG planning, financing and monitoring. India currently faces a large SDG funding gap of 6.2% of GDP or over $200 billion per year. At the same time, the global impact investing market is immense, being valued at over $700 billion, with only a small proportion of these investments flowing to India. The I-4 platform is designed to channelize the funding available nationally and globally into projects that drive SDGs in India. It brings together all the stakeholders involved in the SDG ecosystem, enabling them to achieve their organizational and social objectives.
I-4 supports government It enables the public and private sectors to work in a coordinated manner to ensure balanced funding across themes and geographies with the largest gaps in SDG achievement. It supports government and its allied agencies to plan, monitor and drive SDG achievements on a real time basis.
I-4 supports investees It builds implementing agencies’ capabilities to provide investors’ confidence on likely project impact and returns, and meet their monitoring, evaluation and reporting requirements.
I-4 supports investors It helps investors make informed choices based on credible data on quality projects and implementation agencies. Investors can track their money, be face-to-face with the users of the money and have access to regular reporting by M&E agencies. The resource room guides investors through policies and procedures of the Indian SDG investment ecosystem. The investing community that the platform caters to include, among others, Impact Investors, Institutional Investors, International Finance Institutions (IFIs), Philanthropies, Foundations and High Net-worth Individuals (HNIs).