SDG IMPACTa global investment platform
Focus on Ghana
July 2021

Moving from financing to investment:
SDG Impact offers tools for investors to direct
capital to the achievement of the SDGs
Investors identify lack of viablepipeline and market
intelligence as main barrier toSDG-aligned investment

Impact Management

Impact IntelligenceImpact Facilitation

A means to better decisions
that drive investment capitalto where it is needed

Produces data and insights
needed for increasing
financial flows to the SDGs

Fosters matchmaking
and collaboration to realize
investments• SDG Impact Standards• SDG Impact Seal
• SDG Impact Training• SDG Investor Maps
• Interactive SDG InvestmentPlatform• SDG Impact InvestorConvenings• SDG Impact Policy
Dialogues

SDG Investor Maps translate SDG needs & policy
priorities into actionable investment opportunities•

Country-specific market intelligence backed by data andevidence•

Produced locally based on secondary and primary research•

Provided as a public good to investors and governments•

Findings are made available through an online platform foreasy access by domestic and foreign investors•Impact facilitation events bring findings to life: UNDPCountry Offices lead investor convenings and policy dialogues tomobilize private sector capital and policy changes

SDG Maps: 15 completed, 14 under development & 12 uploaded
Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, India, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, Paraguay, Rwanda, SouthAfrica, Turkey and Uganda.

6 of the 15 Maps completed are in Africa
more under development

Completed

Ongoing

In the pipeline for 2021:
Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire,Eswatini, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Somalia,The Gambia, Tunisia and Zambia.

The SDG Investor Maps process follows astandardized 8-step methodology

SDG Investor Maps identify concrete, investable
solutions to pressing needs at country level
Filtering down from national priorities to derive Investment Opportunity Areas (IOAs)

Ghana identified 5 key priority sectors/areas wheredevelopment needs and policy priorities intersect

AGRIGULTUREINFRASTRUCTURETECHNOLOGY AND
COMMUNICATION

Agricultural products
Meat, Poultry & Diary
Storage & packaging
infrastructure
Agricultural development& innovation

Real estateEngineering &Construction Services
Waste Management
Water Utilities & ServicesInternet media & services

Agriculture accounted for 17% of national GDP and 29% of total
employment in 2019. Total sales for 2019 is USD 13.2 billion.
Estimated growth at 5.6% on average between 2020 and 2025.
Government is committed to raising the productivity and value
addition in the agriculture with initiatives such as Planting for
Food and Jobs, One Village, One Dam.

SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation and SDG 9 - Industry,Innovation and Infrastructure are reported to be a major
challenge and only moderately improving.
By 2021 Ghana wants to achieve over 80% basic water access,
36% of safely managed water access and 30% of improved liquid
waste management and over 80% of solid waste management.

Although challenges persists the population using the internet
and mobile broadband subscriptions indicators are on track toachieve the SDG showing 39% (2017) and 92% (2018).
The government is planning to expand national ICT
infrastructure through collaboration with private sector andachieve the status of regional ICT hub

Ghana identified 5 key priority sectors/areas wheredevelopment needs and policy priorities intersect(cont.)

HEALTH CARE

CONSUMER GOODSHealthcare distributors

Appliance Manufacturing

Achievement of SDG 3 - Good health and wellbeing (I) is still amajor challenge for Ghana, and the country's HumanDevelopment Index score was quite low at 0.596 in 2018
The National Health Insurance Scheme is to deliver a resilient
healthcare delivery system, achieve sustainable financing for
health, reach Universal Health Coverage and reduce barriers.

In Ghana SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and SDG 8(Responsible Consumption and Production) signal a major andsignificant challenge
Most prominent governmental program in manufacturing is theOne District, One District which aims at scaling themanufacturing across the country.

For the Ghana SDG Investor Map, we are grateful for the contributions fromPWC, Business for Peace Foundation (Norway), International Chamberof Commerce, Ministry of Finance and the Ghana Investment Promotion
Centre (GIPC)SDG Investor Maps result in IOA data sets forpresentation in the SDG Investment Platform

The SDG Investment Platform (https://sdginvestorplatform.undp.org/) will present the collected
data and bring market intelligence and impact measurement tools to the desktop for foreign anddomestic investors.

SDG investor facilitation to convene governments,
private sector and financial intermediaries• SDG Investment Fairs at global andnational level support direct informalinteraction among governments, private sector
and financial intermediaries to accelerate
mobilization of investment for the SDGs.
• In 2021, Kenya, Ghana, Jamaica & Pakistan
presented portfolios at the global SDG
Investment fair.
• Ghana presented 16 SDG related
infrastructure projects. These projects will beuploaded on the SDG investor platform

Going forward for Ghana, an opportunity to engage
2021 and beyond• Sector specific SDG Impact Investor Convenings will run for the year for theselected sectors.
• A second iteration of the SDG Investor Map is in the plan. It will include
Investment Opportunities in the Arts, Culture and Sports sectors• SDG Investor Maps for selected MMDAs in the context of COVID-19
Recovery Planning and Integrated Financing Frameworks is planned.
• Use the methodology to screen more investment opportunities and avail
them to the global platform.

Thank you
Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance