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
COVID-19 Response
Global Public Goods
Health Financing
Humanitarian Financing
Innovative Financing
Multilateral Financing
Published September 2019
Shades of grey: Earmarking in the UN development system
By Max-Otto Baumann, Erik Lundsgaarde and Silke Weinlich
Published September 2019
Current and future pathways for UN system-wide finance
By Silke Weinlich and Bruce Jenks
Published September 2019
A resolute resolution for multilateralism - a perspective from International Geneva
By Michael Møller
Published September 2019
A brief reflection on multilateralism, the UN and financing
By Ulrika Modéer
Published September 2019
The crisis of multilateralism, viewed from the Global South
By Adriana Erthal Abdenur
Normative Financing
Peacebuilding Financing
Pooled Financing
Prevention Financing
Published 2017
Financial protection: Planning today for the disasters of tomorrow
By Bianca Adam
Published 2017
Assuring that nothing happens - Reflections on financing conflict prevention
By Jordan Ryan
Published 2016
African Risk Capacity: An Innovative Financing Mechanism for Natural Disasters,
By Mohamed Beavogui
Private Sector Financing
Published 2018
Letting in light: The United Nations’ powerful role in opening the doors to blended finance
By John Morris
Published 2018
Harnessing digital finance for sustainable development
By Fiona Bayat-Renoux
Published 2017
Mobilising private finance in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals
By Gavin Power and Moramay Navarro Perez
Published 2017
Business and the Sustainable Development Goals: Why it matters
By Sahba Sobhani and Robert de Jongh
SDG Financing
Published September 2019
Financing the humanitarian-development-peace nexus
By UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office
Published September 2019
OECD’s Total Official Support for Sustainable Development pilot study on peace and security
By OECD
Published September 2019
The Migration Fund: Building on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
By Jonathan Prentice
Published September 2019
Attracting the millennial investor to multilateralism and investing in the Sustainable Development Goals
By Kanni Wignaraja
Published 2018
International financing flows to developing countries
By Development Initiatives
Published 2018
Cross-border financing flows impacting the Sustainable Development Goals
By Homi Kharas