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
Global Public Goods
Health Financing
Humanitarian Financing
Innovative Financing
Multilateral Financing
Published September 2023
Blended finance for nature: The call for diversified conservation capital
By Briony Coulson and Pierre Bardoux
Published September 2023
Financing the United Nations for people and planet
By Donald Kaberuka
Published September 2023
The Funding Compact going forward: More quality financing for critical outcomes
By John Hendra
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
How effective development cooperation supports the UN system partners expect
By Suharso Monoarfa, Judith Suminwa Tuluka, Marie Ottosson and Vitalice Meja
Normative Financing
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
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
Peacebuilding Financing
Pooled Financing
Prevention Financing
Private Sector Financing
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
Published 2017
Blended finance in fragile contexts: Opportunities and challenges
By Cordelia Lonsdale and Sarah Dalrymple
Published 2016
African Risk Capacity: An Innovative Financing Mechanism for Natural Disasters,
By Mohamed Beavogui
SDG Financing
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
Published September 2023
Sustainably funding the United Nations’ development work: A fast approaching perfect storm?
By John Hendra