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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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 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

Published September 2021
The promises and pitfalls of COVID-19 vaccine equity
By Kanni Wignaraja and Swarnim Waglé

Published September 2020
A coming-of-age story: UN pooled funds
By UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office

Published September 2020
Bringing data to the centre of decision-making: the UN Data Strategy
By Henriette Keijzers

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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

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SDG Financing

Published September 2022
Scaling up the impact of development and climate interventions
By Johannes F. Linn

Published September 2022
The yawning gap between SDG attainment and international development financing
By Homi Kharas and Charlotte Rivard

Published September 2022
Fiscal response to the COVID-19 crisis
By Vera Songwe

Published 2021
International financing of the Sustainable Development Goals
By Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley

Published 2021
Fit-for-purpose financing in the Anthropocene: Quantifying risks and valuing the biosphere
By Pedro Conceição

Published September 2020
From crisis to recovery: Building back better from COVID-19 through integrated national financing frameworks and SDG financing strategies
By Emily Davis, Orria Goni and Thomas Beloe