Innovative Finance

The report features a diverse selection of case studies illustrating the development of innovative finance in the region.

This brief shares different approaches to and experiences with scanning the horizon for innovative ideas within or outside of organisations.

The report summarizes the findings and recommendations developed and agreed by the Task Force on Digital Finance of the SDGs.

This report sets out pathways forward to help realize the full potential of digitalization, using lessons learnt from Indonesia and proposes specific and practical recommendations.

ESCAP and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment launched new digital policy resource with tools, recommendations and best practices for enabling policy environment for impact investment in Asia and the Pacific.

Highlights from the innovation efforts of UN Entities in the first quarter of 2021.

This report rethinks funds as a concept, explores alternative models using a combination of monetary and non-monetary contributions and implementing innovative risk-mitigation mechanisms and financial solutions for smarter investments.

The report reviews a range of financing instruments, strategies and mechanisms to help economies recover from the pandemic and effectively pursue the SDGs; and deep dives on the role of innovative climate and digital finance strategies.

UNWTO has developed a series of Investment Guidelines to enhance coordination and cooperation and mobilize global investment mechanisms to respond to a global crisis. "Enabling Frameworks for Tourism Investment" provides insights for understanding and enabling the conditions and barriers to mobilize tourism investment and so build a competitive, sustainable and inclusive tourism sector beyond the attraction and promotion approaches.

This report highlights the opportunities and challenges that policymakers and development partners have to expand the frontiers of inclusive innovation.

TheUN Climate Change Innovation Compendium and linked living library showcase initiatives, programmes and policies launched by UN Entities that are using innovative approaches to respond to climate change.

The report illustrates a road map to accelerate the clean energy, low-carbon transition, and climate change mitigation through blockchain technology.

The paper shines a light on six countries at the frontier of issuing central bank digital currencies in the hope of identifying insights, lessons, and open questions.

The reports sheds light on challenges women entrepreneurs face: What financial service improvements would better fit their needs, and how they’ve been impacted by and adapted to the pandemic?

This study provides an assessment of the potential use of blockchain in two domain areas: improving postal logistics and facilitating inclusive postal financial services.

This course describes common constraints faced by women in developing markets, how technology use can promote gender-inclusive digital economies, and practical solutions for achieving breakthroughs.