Marketplace of ideas
The marketplace of ideas includes a collection of contributions from senior experts inside and outside the UN system. These contributions are intended to promote and stimulate new thinking, with the aim to help inform ongoing discussions and debate around financing the UN system and the role of the UN in financing the SDGs.
Climate Financing
Published September 2024
Multifaceted approaches to financing of sustainable environmental action
By Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
Published September 2023
To reach the Sustainable Development Goals and global climate goals we have to scale up the impact of investments
By Erik Engberg and Johannes F. Linn
Published September 2023
Increasing Sustainable Development Goals and climate investment in low and middle-income countries: How to mobilise private investment at scale after seven years of underperformance
By Christopher Clubb
Published September 2023
Blended finance for nature: The call for diversified conservation capital
By Briony Coulson and Pierre Bardoux
Published September 2023
Carbon pricing: An integral part of a just transition
By Vera Songwe
Published September 2023
Localisation and Scaling: Two movements and a nexus
By Johannes F. Linn and Larry Cooley
Global Public Goods
Published September 2026
Cut to the Quick: The Impact of Funding Cuts on the United Nations Development Work
By John Hendra
Published September 2026
Parliamentary Perspectives on UN Funding: Preferences, Knowledge, and Oversight in a Time of Crisis
By Sergiy Prokhoriv, Dr Bernhard Reinsberg, Paddy Torsney and Alessandro Motter
Published September 2024
Financing global public goods: Threat or opportunity for sustainable and inclusive development?
By Pedro Conceição
Published September 2023
World Bank reform and implications for development cooperation
Interview with Dr. Jürgen Zattler
Published September 2023
Harnessing global public goods is the defining challenge of our Anthropocene future
By Pedro Conceição
Published 2021
Whither global public goods? No one is safe until everyone is safe
By John Hendra and Silke Weinlich
Health Financing
Published 2021
COVID-19 and the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT)-Accelerator
By Bruce Aylward
Published September 2021
From funding to financing: Leveraging the private sector for peacebuilding in Colombia
By Aanchal Bhatia
Published 2021
A better financed World Health Organization
By Leen Meulenbergs and Brian Elliott
Published September 2021
The promises and pitfalls of COVID-19 vaccine equity
By Kanni Wignaraja and Swarnim Waglé
Published September 2020
From crisis to recovery: Building back better from COVID-19 through integrated national financing frameworks and SDG financing strategies
By Emily Davis, Orria Goni and Thomas Beloe
Humanitarian Financing
Published September 2026
Cut to the Quick: The Impact of Funding Cuts on the United Nations Development Work
By John Hendra
Published September 2026
The Tipping Point: How Hyper-Ear-marking Cripples Humanitarian Response
By Dr Bernhard Reinsberg
Published September 2026
The Future of European Union Funding to the United Nations System: Catalyst or Cataclysm?
By Niels Keijzer and Ronny Patz IDOS
Published September 2024
Financing global public goods: Threat or opportunity for sustainable and inclusive development?
By Pedro Conceição
Published September 2024
Financing the triple nexus in Somalia
Interview with George Conway
Published September 2023
Revitalising a global consensus: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75
By Nada Al-Nashif
Innovative Financing
Published September 2026
The UN Funding Compact: Why Progress Has Lagged—and What Must Come Next
By Sergiy Prokhoriv, Marijana Markotić Andrić, Dr Bernhard Reinsberg and Peter Linnér
Published September 2026
Turning Restitution into Development Results: Lessons From the Uzbekistan Vision 2030 Fund, Also Known as the Ishonch Fund
By Ilkhom Norkulov and Christian Frutiger
Published September 2025
Open-source financing: Where technology and the United Nations system can shine
By Christopher Fabian
Published September 2023
To reach the Sustainable Development Goals and global climate goals we have to scale up the impact of investments
By Erik Engberg and Johannes F. Linn
Published September 2023
The fine art of building trust: Integrated National Financing Frameworks, institutions and financing for development
By Erik Korsgren and Alan AtKisson
Published September 2023
Increasing Sustainable Development Goals and climate investment in low and middle-income countries: How to mobilise private investment at scale after seven years of underperformance
By Christopher Clubb
Multilateral Financing
Published September 2026
Cut to the Quick: The Impact of Funding Cuts on the United Nations Development Work
By John Hendra
Published September 2026
The Effectiveness of Core and Earmarked Funding
By Judith Ihl, Ravneet Singh, Dr Helena Hede Skagerlind and Dr Angela Heucher
Published September 2026
The Tipping Point: How Hyper-Ear-marking Cripples Humanitarian Response
By Dr Bernhard Reinsberg
Published September 2026
The UN Funding Compact: Why Progress Has Lagged—and What Must Come Next
By Sergiy Prokhoriv, Marijana Markotić Andrić, Dr Bernhard Reinsberg and Peter Linnér
Published September 2026
The Future of European Union Funding to the United Nations System: Catalyst or Cataclysm?
By Niels Keijzer and Ronny Patz IDOS
Published September 2026
Turning Restitution into Development Results: Lessons From the Uzbekistan Vision 2030 Fund, Also Known as the Ishonch Fund
By Ilkhom Norkulov and Christian Frutiger
Normative Financing
Published September 2026
Cut to the Quick: The Impact of Funding Cuts on the United Nations Development Work
By John Hendra
Published September 2026
The Effectiveness of Core and Earmarked Funding
By Judith Ihl, Ravneet Singh, Dr Helena Hede Skagerlind and Dr Angela Heucher
Published September 2026
The UN Funding Compact: Why Progress Has Lagged—and What Must Come Next
By Sergiy Prokhoriv, Marijana Markotić Andrić, Dr Bernhard Reinsberg and Peter Linnér
Published September 2026
The Future of European Union Funding to the United Nations System: Catalyst or Cataclysm?
By Niels Keijzer and Ronny Patz IDOS
Published September 2025
Catalysing change: Investing in gender equality across the UN system
By Aparna Mehrotra, Priya Alvarez and Jennifer C Olmsted
Published September 2025
Where are the core contributions to the United Nations going?
By Peter Linnér
Peacebuilding Financing
Published September 2024
Financing the triple nexus in Somalia
Interview with George Conway
Published September 2023
Moving from climate crises to peacebuilding solutions
By United Nations Department for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs – Peacebuilding Support Office and Diane Sheinberg
Published September 2023
Advancing financing of the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda in the United Nations system: Beyond commitments
By Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth and United Network of Young Peacebuilders
Published September 2022
Baby steps: Advancing the discourse on Financing for Peacebuilding
By Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Published September 2022
Scaling-up Support to Address Fragility, Conflict and Violence
By Soukeyna Kane
Published September 2022
Costs of delayed development and re-securing the UN’s Development Role in unsettled times
By Kanni Wignaraja
Pooled Financing
Published September 2026
Cut to the Quick: The Impact of Funding Cuts on the United Nations Development Work
By John Hendra
Published September 2026
The Effectiveness of Core and Earmarked Funding
By Judith Ihl, Ravneet Singh, Dr Helena Hede Skagerlind and Dr Angela Heucher
Published September 2026
The Tipping Point: How Hyper-Ear-marking Cripples Humanitarian Response
By Dr Bernhard Reinsberg
Published September 2026
The UN Funding Compact: Why Progress Has Lagged—and What Must Come Next
By Sergiy Prokhoriv, Marijana Markotić Andrić, Dr Bernhard Reinsberg and Peter Linnér
Published September 2026
Turning Restitution into Development Results: Lessons From the Uzbekistan Vision 2030 Fund, Also Known as the Ishonch Fund
By Ilkhom Norkulov and Christian Frutiger
Published September 2024
Reductions, reallocations and replenishments – Will this be the year of the big squeeze on the UN Development System?
By John Hendra
Prevention Financing
Published September 2023
A high impact UN financing model for eliminating violence against women and girls and accelerating progress on the SDGs
By Heran Ayele and Alessandra Roccasalvo
Published September 2023
Moving from climate crises to peacebuilding solutions
By United Nations Department for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs – Peacebuilding Support Office and Diane Sheinberg
Published September 2022
Scaling-up Support to Address Fragility, Conflict and Violence
By Soukeyna Kane
Published September 2022
Costs of delayed development and re-securing the UN’s Development Role in unsettled times
By Kanni Wignaraja
Published September 2022
Funding prevention: Four lessons from the world of personal training bilateral engagement and ‘bilateralising’ the multilateral approach
By Richard Bailey
Published 2021
Fit-for-purpose financing in the Anthropocene: Quantifying risks and valuing the biosphere
By Pedro Conceição
Private Sector Financing
Published September 2026
The UN Funding Compact: Why Progress Has Lagged—and What Must Come Next
By Sergiy Prokhoriv, Marijana Markotić Andrić, Dr Bernhard Reinsberg and Peter Linnér
Published September 2023
Increasing Sustainable Development Goals and climate investment in low and middle-income countries: How to mobilise private investment at scale after seven years of underperformance
By Christopher Clubb
Published September 2022
Private finance and sustainable development: Welcoming tailwinds, addressing headwinds
By Gavin Power
Published 2021
Maximizing UN leverage where it matters the most: At the country level
By John Hendra and Per Knutsson
Published September 2021
From funding to financing: Leveraging the private sector for peacebuilding in Colombia
By Aanchal Bhatia
Published 2021
‘Walking the talk’: Accelerating the United Nation’s role in leveraging the private sector for the Sustainable Development Goals
By John Hendra and Arif Neky
SDG Financing
Published September 2024
Perspectives on financial reform to bridge the North-South divide
By Donald Kaberuka
Published September 2024
Reductions, reallocations and replenishments – Will this be the year of the big squeeze on the UN Development System?
By John Hendra
Published September 2024
Multifaceted approaches to financing of sustainable environmental action
By Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
Published September 2024
Financing the triple nexus in Somalia
Interview with George Conway
Published September 2024
Funding Compact 2.0 holds potential for improving development outcomes
By Annelies Hickendorff and Marijana Markotić Andrić
Published September 2023
Trustworthiness, trust, together: Building the case for financing of the UN system
By Rachel Scott