Programme area: UN Financing

Financing the UN Development System: Key emerging trends

This is the Executive Summary of the report ‘Financing the UN Development System: Key emerging trends’. This Development Dialogue paper draws attention to three key emerging and evolving financing trends that are of particular relevance to the UNDS: the growth of issue-based multi-agency pooled financing; the challenge of leveraging official development assistance (ODA); and the role of innovative finance.

Launch of report: Financing the UN Development System

“Financing the UN Development System: Getting it Right for a Post-2015 World”, jointly prepared by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office, underlines that the new development agenda will require not only additional resources
 but also the use of a wider range of financing instruments and mechanisms to meet the challenges of an ambitious set of universal sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Civil society’s perspectives in UN renewal

This month the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation hosted a civil society roundtable in Geneva to discuss and debate the future positioning of the United Nations Development System (UNDS) in a post-2015 world.

Core elements of reform for the UN development system

The Permanent Missions of Sweden, Viet Nam and Ethiopia to the United Nations and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation invites all Permanent Missions and Permanent Observers and UN staff to a discussion about ‘Core elements of reform for the UN development system’.

Briefing about UN development system renewal

On the 9th of May the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation invited member states and staff from FAO, WFP and IFAD to a briefing about UN development system renewal.

Renewing UN Development

This paper argues that if true multilateralism in the global socio-economic arena is to be saved, there needs to be a radical re-think of what the UN delivers to its increasingly heterogeneous group of member states in the development field. The fundamental challenge for the UN development system is to reposition itself so that it […]