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
COVID-19 Response
Global Public Goods
Health Financing
Humanitarian Financing
Innovative Financing
Multilateral Financing
Published September 2023
Sustainably funding the United Nations’ development work: A fast approaching perfect storm?
By John Hendra
Published September 2022
Taking data quality to the next level
By United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB)
Published September 2022
Two steps forward, one step back? The UN Funding Compact at three years old
By John Hendra
Published September 2022
Re-discovering assessed contributions in the UN system – Underexploited, yet full of potential
By Silke Weinlich, Nilima Gulrajani and Sebastian Haug
Published 2021
COVID-19 and the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT)-Accelerator
By Bruce Aylward
Published 2021
A better financed World Health Organization
By Leen Meulenbergs and Brian Elliott
Normative Financing
Published September 2023
Sustainably funding the United Nations’ development work: A fast approaching perfect storm?
By John Hendra
Published September 2022
Financing the UN normative agenda amidst growing polarisation
By Nada Al-Nashif
Published September 2022
Financing gender equality: The role of the gender equality marker and financial targets
By Anita Bhatia and Aparna Mehrotra
Published 2021
Dollars and sense: A business case for funding UN Human Rights
By Nada Al-Nashif
Published 2017
A global platform for support of norms, standards and monitoring in development cooperation
By Stephan Klingebiel and Li Xiaoyun
Published 2017
Global norms: Building an inclusive multilateralism
By Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Peacebuilding Financing
Pooled Financing
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
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
Published 2017
Mobilising private finance in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals
By Gavin Power and Moramay Navarro Perez
SDG Financing
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
Funding South-South and triangular cooperation at the United Nations: What do we know?
By Sebastian Haug and Silke Weinlich
Published September 2023
Revitalising a global consensus: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75
By Nada Al-Nashif
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 2023
Financing gender equality: The role of the Gender Equality Marker and financial targets
By Aparna Mehrotra
Published September 2023
Humanitarian financing to alleviate suffering and manage crisis risk collectively
By Joyce Msuya