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.
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Climate Financing

Published 2016
Climate Finance: Designing, Combining and Sequencing Financial Instruments to Catalyse Investment in Sustainable Development
By Adriana Dinu and Oliver Waissbein

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COVID-19 Response

Published September 2020
Financing climate action and energy transition during the COVID-19 crisis
By Ambassador Omar Hilale

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Global Public Goods

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Health Financing

Published September 2020
A European perspective on the global recovery and the way forward
By Félix Fernández-Shaw

Published September 2020
Financing climate action and energy transition during the COVID-19 crisis
By Ambassador Omar Hilale

Published September 2019
Improving the World Health Organizations financing
By Brian Elliot and Maximilian Sandbaek

Published 2017
Reforming the World Health Organization’s financing model
By Dr Gaudenz Silberschmidt and Dr Guitelle Baghdadi-Sabeti

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Humanitarian Financing

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Innovative Financing

Published 2016
The Global Fund and Innovative Financing
By Patrik Silborn

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Multilateral Financing

Published September 2020
A coming-of-age story: UN pooled funds
By UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office

Published September 2020
Bringing data to the centre of decision-making: the UN Data Strategy
By Henriette Keijzers

Published September 2019
The UN SG 's strategy for financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainble Development
By Fiona Bayat-Renoux

Published September 2019
Driving development finance to the ground: Closing the investment gap
By Ambassador Courtenay Rattray

Published September 2019
UN pooled funding: ‘Healthy’ financing for better multilateral results
By UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office

Published September 2019
Shades of grey: Earmarking in the UN development system
By Max-Otto Baumann, Erik Lundsgaarde and Silke Weinlich

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Normative Financing

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Peacebuilding Financing

Published September 2019
Official Development Assistance and peacebuilding: 10 year trends
By Ayham Al Maleh

Published September 2019
How the Peacebuilding Fund is investing in the Sustainable Development Goals
By Laura Buzzoni and Henk-Jan Brinkman

Published 2017
Financing sustainable peace: The right way
By Rachel Scott

Published 2017
Financing for peace
By Stephan Massing

Published 2017
Is peacebuilding cost-effective?
By Institute for Economics and Peace

Published 2017
The potential of innovative financing to sustain peace
By Kevin Starace

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Pooled Financing

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Prevention Financing

Published 2021
Innovative ways for peace financing: The case for ‘blue investments’
By Christoph Heusgen

Published 2021
Strengthening weather and climate observations: A foundational global public good
By Johannes F. Linn, Anthony Rea, Markus Repnik and Laura Tuck

Published September 2019
OECD’s Total Official Support for Sustainable Development pilot study on peace and security
By OECD

Published September 2019
Forecast-based financing: A breakthrough at last for humanitarian financing?
By Lana Zaki Nusseibeh

Published September 2019
World Bank Catastrophe bonds as an innovative development financing tool
By Michael Bennett and Rebeca Godoy

Published 2017
Is peacebuilding cost-effective?
By Institute for Economics and Peace

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Private Sector Financing

Published 2018
Personal reflections - institutional investors and financing sustainable development: The need for better alignment
By Marc-André Blanchard

Published 2018
Dynamics of India’s development cooperation under the framework of ‘Development Compact’
By Sachin Chaturvedi

Published 2018
Beyond green: Building sustainable capital markets
By Heike Reichelt and Colleen Keenan

Published 2018
Making waves: Aligning the financial system with sustainable development
By Simon Zadek

Published 2018
Creating an ecosystem to deliver positive impact finance and meet the Sustainable Development Goals
By Careen Abb

Published 2018
Innovative finance platform for United Nations development system country-level support
By Yannick Glemarec

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SDG Financing

Published September 2020
A European perspective on the global recovery and the way forward
By Félix Fernández-Shaw

Published September 2020
The UN Joint SDG Fund:Turning transformational potential into reality
By John Hendra and Silke Weinlich

Published September 2020
International financing of the Sustainable Development Goals
By Homi Kharas

Published September 2019
International financing of the Sustainable Development Goals
By Homi Kharas

Published September 2019
Bye-Bye, billions to trillions
By John W. McArthur

Published September 2019
Lessons from health and how to invest wisely in development
By Guido Schmidt-Traub