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 2016
Climate Finance: Designing, Combining and Sequencing Financial Instruments to Catalyse Investment in Sustainable Development
By Adriana Dinu and Oliver Waissbein
Pagination
COVID-19 Response
Published September 2020
Financing climate action and energy transition during the COVID-19 crisis
By Ambassador Omar Hilale
Pagination
Global Public Goods
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
Pagination
Humanitarian Financing
Innovative Financing
Pagination
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
Pagination
Normative Financing
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
Pagination
Pooled Financing
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
Pagination
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
Pagination
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
Lessons from health and how to invest wisely in development
By Guido Schmidt-Traub