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
COVID-19 Response
Global Public Goods
Health Financing
Humanitarian Financing
Innovative Financing
Multilateral Financing
Published September 2020
Bringing data to the centre of decision-making: the UN Data Strategy
By Henriette Keijzers
Published September 2019
The UN SG 's strategy for financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainble Development
By Fiona Bayat-Renoux
Published September 2019
Driving development finance to the ground: Closing the investment gap
By Ambassador Courtenay Rattray
Published September 2019
UN pooled funding: ‘Healthy’ financing for better multilateral results
By UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office
Published September 2019
Improving the World Health Organizations financing
By Brian Elliot and Maximilian Sandbaek
Published September 2019
Shades of grey: Earmarking in the UN development system
By Max-Otto Baumann, Erik Lundsgaarde and Silke Weinlich
Normative Financing
Peacebuilding Financing
Pooled Financing
Prevention Financing
Private Sector Financing
SDG Financing
Published September 2022
The yawning gap between SDG attainment and international development financing
By Homi Kharas and Charlotte Rivard
Published September 2022
Scaling up the impact of development and climate interventions
By Johannes F. Linn
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