The Aga Khan Trust for Culture has won two major awards from UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific regional office for cultural heritage conservation and sustainable development. The prizes include the 2020 Award for Special Recognition for Sustainable Development and the 2020 Award for Excellence. The awards were established in 2000 to recognise the efforts of private individuals and organisations that have successfully restored, conserved and transformed structures and buildings of heritage value in the region. The UNESCO Master Jury awarded Special Recognition for Sustainable Development on Sunder Nursery for its "transformative impact in turning a barren site into an urban oasis in the heart of New Delhi."