You are here
Activities of SDF
Activities of SDF
The SDF has three financing windows:
- Social
- Economic
- Infrastructure
Social Window
The Social Window shall primarily fund projects, inter alia, on poverty alleviation, social development focusing on education; health; human resources development; support to venerable/disadvantaged segments of the society; funding needs of communities, mirco-enterprises, rural infrastructure development. The projects shall be in line with regional consensus as reflected in the SAARC Social Charter, SAARC Development Goals, SAARC Plan of Action on Poverty Alleviation and other SAARC agreed and endorsed plans, programmes and instruments.
Economic Window
The Economic Window shall primarily extend funding to non-infrastructural projects related to trade and industrial development, agriculture, service sector, science and technology and other non-infrastructure areas. It shall also be utilized for identifying, studying, developing and /or sponsoring commercially viable programmes/projects of regional priority including their pre-feasibility and feasibility studies.
The Economic Window would be utilized for supporting any other projects which are not covered explicitly under the Social and Infrastructure Window.
Infrastructure Window
The Infrastructure Windows shall primarily be utilized to fund projects in areas such as energy, power, transportation, telecommunications, environment, tourism and other infrastructure areas.