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
Published September 2023
Moving from climate crises to peacebuilding solutions
By United Nations Department for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs – Peacebuilding Support Office and Diane Sheinberg
Published September 2022
Time to stop paying nature’s invoices, and invest to reduce them
By Inger Andersen
Published September 2022
The Green Climate Fund’s transformational approach to climate finance
By Yannick Glemarec
Published 2021
Strengthening weather and climate observations: A foundational global public good
By Johannes F. Linn, Anthony Rea, Markus Repnik and Laura Tuck
Published September 2020
Financing climate action and energy transition during the COVID-19 crisis
By Ambassador Omar Hilale
Published September 2019
World Bank Catastrophe bonds as an innovative development financing tool
By Michael Bennett and Rebeca Godoy
Global Public Goods
Published September 2017
Multilateral development banking for 21st century challenges: Addressing global public goods
By Scott Morris and Priscilla Atansah
Published September 2017
Why the United Nations should embrace the concept of global public goods
By Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Health Financing
Published September 2020
A European perspective on the global recovery and the way forward
By Félix Fernández-Shaw
Published September 2020
Financing climate action and energy transition during the COVID-19 crisis
By Ambassador Omar Hilale
Published September 2019
Improving the World Health Organizations financing
By Brian Elliot and Maximilian Sandbaek
Published 2017
Reforming the World Health Organization’s financing model
By Dr Gaudenz Silberschmidt and Dr Guitelle Baghdadi-Sabeti
Humanitarian Financing
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 2022
Introduction to humanitarian pooled funding – saving lives and ensuring prioritised quality funding
By Martin Griffiths
Innovative Financing
Published September 2023
Blended finance for nature: The call for diversified conservation capital
By Briony Coulson and Pierre Bardoux
Published September 2023
Localisation and Scaling: Two movements and a nexus
By Johannes F. Linn and Larry Cooley
Published September 2020
Reinforcing forces? New technologies and investment in sustainable development
By Navid Hanif and Philipp Erfurth
Published September 2019
Innovative finance for peacebuilding: it is time to invest
By Catherine Howell and Henk-Jan Brinkman
Published 2018
Creating money out of thin air? The role of science, technology and innovation in making the SDGs affordable
By Pedro Conceição
Published 2017
Scaling up financing for the poorest countries through innovation
By Lisa Finneran
Multilateral Financing
Published September 2026
Parliamentary Perspectives on UN Funding: Preferences, Knowledge, and Oversight in a Time of Crisis
By Sergiy Prokhoriv, Dr Bernhard Reinsberg, Paddy Torsney and Alessandro Motter
Published September 2025
The perfect UN financing storm has arrived: It’s a tsunami!
By John Hendra
Published September 2025
The impacts of earmarked aid on development effectiveness and ownership
By Bernhard Reinsberg, Cecilia Corsini and Giuseppe Zaccaria
Published September 2025
Where are the core contributions to the United Nations going?
By Peter Linnér
Published September 2025
Sustainable synergies impact: Cameroon – United Nations - International Financial Institutions strategic engagement
By Issa Sanogo
Published September 2025
The UN Funding Compact in practice: Country-level lessons and reflections
By Marijana Markotić Andrić and Sergiy Prokhoriv
Normative Financing
Published September 2024
Financing global public goods: Threat or opportunity for sustainable and inclusive development?
By Pedro Conceição
Published September 2024
Reductions, reallocations and replenishments – Will this be the year of the big squeeze on the UN Development System?
By John Hendra
Published September 2024
Multifaceted approaches to financing of sustainable environmental action
By Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
Published September 2023
To reach the Sustainable Development Goals and global climate goals we have to scale up the impact of investments
By Erik Engberg and Johannes F. Linn
Published September 2023
Financing the Sustainable Development Goals: The big stuck
By Homi Kharas and Charlotte Rivard
Published September 2023
Trustworthiness, trust, together: Building the case for financing of the UN system
By Rachel Scott
Peacebuilding Financing
Published 2021
Maintaining UN capacities for conflict prevention in a changing peace and security landscape
By Jake Sherman
Published September 2019
Financing fit for the future: A 10-point Agenda for Financing Peacebuilding
By Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Published September 2019
Innovative finance for peacebuilding: it is time to invest
By Catherine Howell and Henk-Jan Brinkman
Published September 2019
Official Development Assistance and peacebuilding: 10 year trends
By Ayham Al Maleh
Published September 2019
How the Peacebuilding Fund is investing in the Sustainable Development Goals
By Laura Buzzoni and Henk-Jan Brinkman
Pooled Financing
Published September 2024
Financing the triple nexus in Somalia
Interview with George Conway
Published September 2024
Funding Compact 2.0 holds potential for improving development outcomes
By Annelies Hickendorff and Marijana Markotić Andrić
Published September 2023
A high impact UN financing model for eliminating violence against women and girls and accelerating progress on the SDGs
By Heran Ayele and Alessandra Roccasalvo
Published September 2022
Introduction to humanitarian pooled funding – saving lives and ensuring prioritised quality funding
By Martin Griffiths
Published September 2020
A coming-of-age story: UN pooled funds
By UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office
Published September 2019
UN pooled funding: ‘Healthy’ financing for better multilateral results
By UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office
Prevention Financing
Published September 2021
From funding to financing: Leveraging the private sector for peacebuilding in Colombia
By Aanchal Bhatia
Published 2021
Maintaining UN capacities for conflict prevention in a changing peace and security landscape
By Jake Sherman
Published 2021
Strengthening weather and climate observations: A foundational global public good
By Johannes F. Linn, Anthony Rea, Markus Repnik and Laura Tuck
Published 2021
Innovative ways for peace financing: The case for ‘blue investments’
By Christoph Heusgen
Published September 2019
OECD’s Total Official Support for Sustainable Development pilot study on peace and security
By OECD
Published September 2019
Forecast-based financing: A breakthrough at last for humanitarian financing?
By Lana Zaki Nusseibeh
Private Sector Financing
Published 2021
Innovative ways for peace financing: The case for ‘blue investments’
By Christoph Heusgen
Published September 2019
Investment Gapportunities: Changing the narrative on investment in sustainable development
By Navid Hanif and Philipp Erfurth
Published 2018
Personal reflections - institutional investors and financing sustainable development: The need for better alignment
By Marc-André Blanchard
Published 2018
Dynamics of India’s development cooperation under the framework of ‘Development Compact’
By Sachin Chaturvedi
Published 2018
Beyond green: Building sustainable capital markets
By Heike Reichelt and Colleen Keenan
Published 2018
Making waves: Aligning the financial system with sustainable development
By Simon Zadek
SDG Financing
Published September 2023
To reach the Sustainable Development Goals and global climate goals we have to scale up the impact of investments
By Erik Engberg and Johannes F. Linn
Published September 2023
The fine art of building trust: Integrated National Financing Frameworks, institutions and financing for development
By Erik Korsgren and Alan AtKisson
Published September 2023
Financing the Sustainable Development Goals: The big stuck
By Homi Kharas and Charlotte Rivard
Published September 2023
The Funding Compact going forward: More quality financing for critical outcomes
By John Hendra
Published September 2023
Increasing Sustainable Development Goals and climate investment in low and middle-income countries: How to mobilise private investment at scale after seven years of underperformance
By Christopher Clubb
Published September 2023
Blended finance for nature: The call for diversified conservation capital
By Briony Coulson and Pierre Bardoux