Strategy
underscores its call for Asia’s leaders to shift from participation to
leadership in advancing Asia-led solutions
INDIA,
1 JULY 2026 : AVPN,
Asia’s largest platform for social impact, today announced a strategic
evolution of its products and community models, in response to shifts in the
global macro landscape and the growing urgency in Asia’s impact needs. The
region faces a USD 26-trillion financing need through 2030 to maintain growth,
eradicate poverty and respond to climate changes. AVPN is calling on Asia’s
philanthropists, capital holders, and government leaders to take transformative
action by shaping an Asia-led framework for how capital must be designed,
deployed and coordinated – to meet Asia’s social and environmental needs.
India
sits at the heart of this call. As the world’s most populous country and one of
Asia’s fastest-growing economies, India’s total
funding grew at a 13% CAGR between FY20 and FY25 to roughly INR 27 lakh crore
(USD 310 billion) and is projected to reach INR 50 lakh crore (USD 570 billion)
by FY30, yet a USD 180 billion
remains between current spending and need. As a priority market, India’s
integrated capital ecosystem is increasingly driving scalable social investment
solutions throughout Asia.
Entering
its 15th year of moving capital towards Impact for Asia, this
evolution affirms AVPN’s role as an Asia-led platform that builds an impact
ecosystem rooted in on-ground realities, drives a more prosperous and inclusive
Asia, and strengthens the region’s influence on global impact action.
“Asia
can no longer be a passive participant in global impact conversations,” said Achal Agarwal,
Chair, AVPN. “This USD 26‑trillion gap is not just a
financing shortfall; it is an opportunity for Asia to design its own playbook
and lead with frameworks grounded in our realities, while shaping global
approaches for a more equitable, inclusive and prosperous future.”
Asia’s
impact landscape is entering a phase of greater complexity and urgency, with
capital pools growing, but deployment remaining fragmented across markets,
sectors and stakeholder priorities. Official Development Assistance (ODA) fell by 23.1% in
2025 with a further decline projected for 2026,
even as needs continue to rise. Global frameworks, while useful, often fail to
capture Asia’s diversity, complexity and context. Within the region’s broader
financing need, it also faces a USD 1.5 trillion annual
SDG financing gap, underscoring the need for more coordinated
capital.
Meeting
India’s SDG commitments requires an estimated 6% of GDP annually,
while climate ambitions imply over USD 22 trillion
in cumulative financing through 2070. In 2025, USD 5.29 billion in equity capital was deployed
across 256 impact-driven enterprises,
reflecting steady sectoral growth. India now has over 300 family offices
managing more than USD 30 billion in assets,
alongside expanding high-net-worth wealth creation. CSR continues to channel
billions annually into social priorities. These capital pools are growing in
scale and sophistication but require stronger systems for coordinated
deployment.
Building
on this, AVPN’s strategic evolution introduces its community model, previously
known as membership tiers, redesigned for impact at scale. This is to expand
its engagement with the impact ecosystem, such that coordination and
collaboration can be multiplied.
The
Vantage and Discovery pathways are designed to
balance breadth with depth.
●
Vantage: A
paid, relationship-led experience designed for organisations seeking deeper
strategic engagement, dedicated support, curated connections, and leadership
opportunities.
●
Discovery: A
flexible engagement pathway that enables organisations to access the AVPN
ecosystem and engage through a combination of complimentary and pay-per-use
opportunities.
AVPN’s
product portfolio remains focused around four thematic priorities – Climate
Action, Health Impact, Gender Equality and Economic Inclusion, which will be
activated through dynamic cross‑cutting levers such as AI, policy, impact
investing and faith‑based giving. These impact levers ensure AVPN and its
impact ecosystem continually unlock new forms of capital and innovation to meet
the rising needs of the region.
The
new strategy reinforces AVPN’s mission of translating intent into impact by
bringing together people, ideas and resources for Asia, and its vision of a
thriving impact ecosystem that drives a prosperous and inclusive Asia. AVPN
delivers this strategy through flagship convenings such as the AVPN Global
Conference and summits, pooled funds, policy dialogues and thematic‑specific
initiatives, AVPN will amplify community voices, connect unlikely allies and
catalyse coalitions that can drive systems‑level change. Current initiatives
include partnerships with Indonesia on health impact, with India on energy
transition, collaborations with the ASEAN Business Advisory Council on
corporate CSR, and work with ASEAN Ministries of Education on economic
inclusion enabled by AI and technology.
“When
Asia leads with its own frameworks, informed by local realities and grounded in
trust, partnership and mutuality, we can turn challenges into opportunities for
generations to come. Asia’s leaders must now step up. There is no time to
waste. We should not be participants in our own region; we need to be
architects of our Asia-led blueprint for impact. And, AVPN’s role as a trusted
impact ecosystem is to provide the connective tissue that allows capital to
move with confidence across borders, sectors and instruments, so that ambition
becomes action,” added Naina Subberwal Batra,
CEO, AVPN.
This
August, AVPN brings the Global Conference to India for the first time in its
thirteen-year history, convening more than 2,000 delegates at Bharat Mandapam
in New Delhi from 25 to 27 August. The decision to host in India signals AVPN's
intent to anchor the region's impact agenda where the financing challenge is
most acute and where the solutions developed carry the broadest relevance for
Asia.
Solving
Asia's social and environmental challenges demands the full continuum of
capital, where grants, debt, and equity are intentionally aligned to move
solutions from innovation to scale. Asia needs more than just diverse forms of
capital but also shared accountability among partners that reduces perceived
risk and enables actors across sectors to converge around collective outcomes.
With over 700 organisations across 43 markets, and a 15-year track record of
building Asia’s impact ecosystem, AVPN is committed to meet this challenge with
clarity and purpose for the hundreds of millions of people whose futures depend
on the region getting this right.
About
AVPN
AVPN
is Asia’s largest platform for social impact, where over 700 resource
providers, innovators and intermediaries from across 43 markets collaborate to
mobilise capital. Grounded in deep
regional expertise and partnerships, AVPN is building a thriving ecosystem that
accelerates measurable progress toward inclusive growth, empowering Asia to
lead the way in global impact. AVPN’s mission is to translate intent into
impact by bringing together people, ideas, and resources for Asia. We do this
by strengthening partnerships, fostering open collaboration, and enabling the
coordinated flow of resources across markets and borders. Together with our
community, AVPN is building a thriving impact ecosystem that drives a
prosperous and inclusive Asia.
For more information about AVPN and our work, please visit our website
and read our latest Annual Review.
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