Financing the UN Development System: Embracing Change

Event Type
Virtual Event

Location / Date
Online, 29.10.2020

German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institute für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Dag Hammarskjold Foundation

This event is part of the OECD webinar series on “Multilateral Development Finance in the COVID-19 era and beyond: Perspectives from Around the World”

The world is facing a global pandemic with devastating economic and social consequences, accelerating climate change and rising inequalities. All this calls for more multilateral cooperation and a multilateral development system that reaches its full potential, with only 10 years left to achieve the SDGs. The UN development system (UNDS) has a unique role to play. While overall UNDS funding to has been continuously growing, up to 80 per cent comes in form of earmarked contributions. What does the current UN funding situation look like? What kind of consequences does it carry for the UN’s work? Why do bilateral donors earmark funds and what challenges does earmarking pose for them? And what does this all mean for multilateralism?

Introductory words

• Imme Scholz, Deputy Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
• Henrik Hammargren, Executive Director of Dag Hammarskjold Foundation

The speakers are

• Jennifer Topping, Executive Director of UN Multi Partner Trust Fund Office
• Bruce Jenks, Senior Advisor to the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation
• Silke Weinlich, Senior Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
• Erik Lundsgaarde, Independent Analyst, Copenhagen

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