Impact Investing

Since 2019, UNDP’s Impact Venture Accelerator programs have worked towards the development of early and growth stage startups in Indonesia into becoming profitable impact ventures focusing on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Impact Aim Indonesia: In partnership with 500 Startups, Bukalapak and Google Singapore, we worked to support 9 growth-stage startups who joined an intensive acceleration program where they focused on business scalability, growth strategies, fundraising, lean data management and impact measurement and management. The ventures then pitched to investors, partners and media during the Demo Day in Singapore.

She Disrupts Indonesia 2021: In collaboration with IWEF (Indonesia Women Empowerment Fund), YCAB Ventures, Moonshot Ventures, Creatella Impact, UN Women and Citibank; we organized a startup competition and two-week pre-acceleration programme for women-led early-stage social enterprises where they were trained in investment readiness, business model valuation, gender, impact measurement and tech venture building. Top 24 finalists were chosen to pitch to investors, panel of jury, colleagues, partners and media during the online Demo Day.

Blue Finance Accelerator: Together with Asian Development Bank and ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility, UNDP aims to develop an accelerator programme focusing on blue sector, exploring themes such as plastic waste management, sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, mangrove and peatland conservation, as well as climate change mitigation. The accelerator programme will also focus on building government level capacity aligning with SMEs/Startup needs across Indonesia and to support government projects under the blue sector.

Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) seeks to empower impactful ventures by diving into the significance of measuring impact, problem solving, articulating and creating change. The practice enables business both investee and investors to consider ways to mitigate negative effects of one’s actions to people and planet, while maximizing the positive, in alignment with one’s goals (Global Impact Invest Network). IMM has been implemented across UNDP projects including Impact Aim Indonesia, She Disrupts Indonesia and in Fund level through Indonesia Impact Fund.

Innovative Financing Lab, under the ASSIST Joint Programme supported by Joint SDG Fund, UN Indonesia, is operationalizing Indonesia Impact Fund (IIF). IIF is the first Indonesian private impact investment fund investing into early-stage start-ups that are supporting the implementation of SDGs in Indonesia. The Fund aims to raise potential fund closing $25 to $30 million and to invest 25-30 SDG-contributing start-ups. The Fund focuses on 6 priority Sustainable Development Goals: No Poverty, Good Health and Well-Being, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Sustainable Cities and Communities and Climate.

SDG Investment Platform provides investors with market intelligence (data, analysis, and evidence) about investment opportunities and business models that could advance the SDGs in a specific context. The platform maps Investment Opportunity Area (IOAs) and business models that respond to both SDG needs and policy priorities to guide domestic and foreign investor decision-making.

Blue Finance Accelerator is a programme presented by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Asian Development Bank (ADB), in collaboration with the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime and Investment Affairs, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and Instellar Indonesia. This 6-month accelerator programme aims to provide capacity-building and support mechanisms on business and impact for startups and SMEs operating in blue sectors - including sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, marine debris waste management, plastic pollution reduction, climate change mitigation or adaptation. The programme will target a minimum of 12 SMEs/Startups, consisting of six startups and six SMEs to undergo acceleration.