As India marked its national holiday of Diwali, the SDG Philanthropy Platform, a growing collaborative promoting sustainable development, announced its second founding supporter for the initiative in India – the Avasant Foundation. The Platform in India connects and catalyze partnerships between philanthropic organizations, grantees and partners, the UN system, government, academia, impact investors and the broader business community in order to accelerate achievement of Agenda 2030 – a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – agreed by all the world's governments in September 2015.
Work in India focuses on ending poverty, ensuring inclusive, quality education, achieving gender equality and women's empowerment, and promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all.
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