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
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
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
Taking data quality to the next level
By United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB)
Normative Financing
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
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