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.
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Climate Financing

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COVID-19 Response

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Global Public Goods

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Health Financing

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Humanitarian Financing

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Innovative Financing

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Multilateral Financing

Published 2018
Recent multilateral resource mobilisation and the challenges ahead
By Johannes F. Linn

Published 2018
China’s expanding development cooperation
By David Dollar

Published 2018
Transparency and financing for the Sustainable Development Goals: The power of non-governmental organisation voices
By Lindsay Coates

Published 2018
Towards Buenos Aires Plan of Action+40: Leveraging South-South cooperation toward achieving sustainable development
By Jorge Chediek

Published 2018
Local insights, global ambition - what’s needed to allow the United Nations to advance its financing role in countries?
By Richard Bailey and Lisa Orrenius

Published 2017
Reforming the World Health Organization’s financing model
By Dr Gaudenz Silberschmidt and Dr Guitelle Baghdadi-Sabeti

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Normative Financing

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Peacebuilding Financing

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Pooled Financing

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Prevention Financing

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Private Sector Financing

Published 2017
The promise of ‘blended finance’
By Homi Kharas

Published 2017
Blended finance in fragile contexts: Opportunities and challenges
By Cordelia Lonsdale and Sarah Dalrymple

Published 2017
The potential of innovative financing to sustain peace
By Kevin Starace

Published 2016
African Risk Capacity: An Innovative Financing Mechanism for Natural Disasters,
By Mohamed Beavogui

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SDG Financing

Published 2018
Sustainable Development Goal financing in the developing countries: Like clouds and wind without rain
By Debapriya Bhattacharya

Published 2018
Transparency and financing for the Sustainable Development Goals: The power of non-governmental organisation voices
By Lindsay Coates

Published 2018
The World Bank Group Sustainable Development Goals Fund – a trust fund to support the means of implementation for the goals
By Jaehyang So, Björn Gillsäter and Veronica Piatkov

Published 2018
Catalyst restrained by adverse conditions: How does the 2030 Agenda impact development cooperation?
By Stephan Klingebiel and Silke Weinlich

Published 2017
From Funding to Financing – beginning the journey
By Richard Bailey

Published 2017
Illicit financial flows and domestic resource mobilisation: Drivers of change in financing Agenda 2030
By Tom Cardamone