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 2017
The Green Climate Fund – The ‘new kid on the block’
By Manfred Konukiewitz
Published 2016
Climate Finance: Designing, Combining and Sequencing Financial Instruments to Catalyse Investment in Sustainable Development
By Adriana Dinu and Oliver Waissbein
Global Public Goods
Health Financing
Humanitarian Financing
Innovative Financing
Published 2017
Reaching the last mile: The role of innovative finance in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals
By Judith Karl
Multilateral Financing
Published September 2024
Financing global public goods: Threat or opportunity for sustainable and inclusive development?
By Pedro Conceição
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
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
Published September 2023
The fine art of building trust: Integrated National Financing Frameworks, institutions and financing for development
By Erik Korsgren and Alan AtKisson
Normative Financing
Published September 2023
The Funding Compact going forward: More quality financing for critical outcomes
By John Hendra
Published September 2023
Financing the United Nations for people and planet
By Donald Kaberuka
Published September 2023
World Bank reform and implications for development cooperation
Interview with Dr. Jürgen Zattler
Published September 2023
How effective development cooperation supports the UN system partners expect
By Suharso Monoarfa, Judith Suminwa Tuluka, Marie Ottosson and Vitalice Meja
Published September 2023
Funding South-South and triangular cooperation at the United Nations: What do we know?
By Sebastian Haug and Silke Weinlich
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
Peacebuilding Financing
Pooled Financing
Published 2017
UN pooled funds: A game-changer in financing Agenda 2030
By UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office
Prevention Financing
Published September 2019
World Bank Catastrophe bonds as an innovative development financing tool
By Michael Bennett and Rebeca Godoy
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
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
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
SDG Financing
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
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
World Bank reform and implications for development cooperation
Interview with Dr. Jürgen Zattler
Published September 2023
Localisation and Scaling: Two movements and a nexus
By Johannes F. Linn and Larry Cooley
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
How effective development cooperation supports the UN system partners expect
By Suharso Monoarfa, Judith Suminwa Tuluka, Marie Ottosson and Vitalice Meja