The Sustainable Development Goals Finance Facility (‘SFF’ or ‘the Facility’) was launched yesterday by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The SFF is a platform that will incubate innovative financial instruments aligned to the SDGs that will catalyse funding for improved social and developmental outcomes in India. The Facility is an initiative of UNDP in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), financial services firm KPMG and Social Finance India, a TATA Trusts backed not-for-profit.