Strategic Foresight

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November 27, 2023

Futures Cards To Shape Inclusive Foresight

This gamified learning experience is designed to help participants develop their knowledge and skills in inclusive and participatory foresight.
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October 24, 2023

UN Innovation Update 2023

The UN Innovation Update highlight how 40 UN Entities from across the system are leveraging innovative approaches in their work.
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September 6, 2023

UN 2.0 Policy Brief

The Brief outlines the SG's vision for a modernised UN system with cutting-edge skills and forward-thinking culture.
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August 1, 2023

Mitigating Harm: A Foresight Ethics Guide for Practitioners RBAP Strategic Foresight Network

The Foresight Ethics Guide offers several lines of inquiries on foresight. Its intentionally expansive questions are intended to prompt reflections that can support a group to move towards more justice-led and power-sensitive modes of thinking about, facilitating and responding to the future.
SDG 16: Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
April 26, 2023

Futures Tool for Intergenerational Equity

The futures tools help develop capabilities which can help advance equitable, just and fair generational relations.
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April 14, 2023

What You Need to Know About Intergenerational Equity - Agenda, Best Practices and Tools

This session provides UN colleagues, particularly those in foresight and policy roles, with crucial updates on Intergenerational Equity in the UN context and beyond, definitions and tools to start thinking and acting on the IGE agenda.
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April 12, 2023

Our Future Pledge - An Agenda for Futures by Youth

This toolkit provides a comprehensive guide on exploring alternative futures, creating your own scenarios, and advocating for greater youth inclusion in foresight
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February 7, 2023

Four Future Scenarios for Three Transformative Results

UNFPA has introduced a structured future-informed approach into its strategic planning, as part of a shared response to the turbulent, uncertain, novel and ambiguous conditions we live in.
SDG 05: Gender Equality
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being
January 12, 2023

Strategic Foresight: The Futures of MSMEs in Indonesia

SDG 08: Decent Work & Economic Growth
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
September 16, 2022

Strategic Foresight for Policy Planning

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August 15, 2022

Exploring Futures - A Guide to Driving Change, Foreseeing Trends

This document is a practical guide to exploring possible futures associated with development.
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August 15, 2022

The Future of Knowledge - A Foresight Report

This report seeks to inform ongoing discussions regarding the means for countries to scale up their resilience, develop recovery plans, and shift toward more sustainable and inclusive development pathways.
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August 15, 2022

UNWTO Global Fdi Greenfield Investment Trends in Tourism in Association With fDI Intelligence From The Financial Times

For the third year in a row, the UNWTO has partnered with the fDi intelligence from the Financial Times to develop a joint publication on Tourism Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) analyzing data on Greenfield investments trends. The relevance of this report is pivotal to governments and investors because it exposed data on flows of capital, and destinations for investments providing insight on market trends for the tourism recovery.
SDG 01: No Poverty
SDG 08: Decent Work & Economic Growth
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
SDG 13: Climate Action
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
August 15, 2022

The Power of Digitalization in the Age of Physical Distancing

Exploration of the multi-faceted opportunities and risks that digital innovation can bring to social connections and community cohesion among migrants and host communities.
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
SDG 05: Gender Equality
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being
August 15, 2022

The Changing Nature of Work - 30 Signals to consider for a Sustainable Future

The report reveals 30 signals that shape the “where, who, how, and why” of the changing nature of work, including opportunities, threats, and solutions from local contexts.
SDG 08: Decent Work & Economic Growth
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
August 15, 2022

Innovative Data-Centre Cooling Technologies in China – Liquid Cooling Solution

This brief showcases how two large Chinese companies leverage advanced liquid-cooling systems to cool their data centres.
SDG 07: Affordable & Clean Energy

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