Financing the UN Development System
Since 2015, we have, in partnership with the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office, produced an influential annual report on the financing of the UN development system.
About the publication
The UN development system currently faces an extraordinary opportunity to reaffirm its role and relevance in a rapidly changing world. The ambition and broad scope of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development both demands and emboldens UN development system reform. With the function of the system increasingly dictated by the nature of the funding it receives, the issue of financing is at the centre of any credible repositioning.
Since 2015, in partnership with the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office, the Foundation has supported the UN Secretary-General’s reform agenda on repositioning the UN development system through the production of an annual report, Financing the UN Development System. We launch the report in September every year ahead of the the UN General Assembly in New York, usually followed by events in Brussels, Geneva and Washington, DC.
Each edition of the report provides a thorough overview of the UN development system’s revenue and expenditure, providing in essence a cheat-sheet for decision makers within Member States and UN entities. The second half of the report features a collection of essays by authors from outside and inside the UN system where they present their ideas on the financing trends impacting the Sustainable Development Goals.
Read the latest edition:
Resourcing the Future
Read and download the tenth annual report on financing the UN development system, produced by the Foundation and the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office.
Read the report
Explore the data
The 2024 edition is also hosted on a specialised microsite as an interactive online version featuring data visualisations where readers can explore the latest financial flows in depth.
Here we also learn more about the contributing countries to UN entities and review the expenditure data by country and year. Included is an archive of all previous reports. See below for one of many visualisations.
