Earmarking financial contributions for specific geographic, thematic or other priorities has emerged as an important modality for funding multilateral development organisations. Earmarking has had positive consequences, such as the mobilisation of resources for multilateral organisations and new...

There is a case to be made for greater transparency of the United Nations’ (UN) development work at the country level. Transparency can, in the simplest terms, be defined as the quality of being open to public scrutiny. Despite improvements in recent years, UN organisations still only...

Multilateral cooperation means that states can collectively achieve more than they can through individual and bilateral efforts alone. Multilateral organisations are important instruments for this: they have a greater geographic and thematic reach, operate at a larger scale and stand for...

Since 2016, Germany has been the second largest contributor to the United Nations development system (UNDS) for development-related and humanitarian activities, after the United States of America. The biggest increase in Germany’s funding has been in the form of earmarked contributions, that...

In order to effectively assist countries in “building back better” following the COVID-19 pandemic and returning to a path towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations (UN) and its development entities, organised within the United Nations Development System (UNDS),...

With its unique multilateral assets, the United Nations Development System (UNDS) should be playing a key role in assisting governments and other stakeholders with their implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. But this requires change. Despite improvements in recent...

Seit 2016 ist Deutschland nach den Vereinigten Staaten der zweitgrößte Beitragszahler zum Entwicklungssystem der Vereinten Nationen (UNDS). Der größte Anstieg der deutschen Mittel entfällt auf zweckgebundene Beiträge, d.h. auf Mittel mit vorab festgelegten geographischen und thematischen...

Eine erneute Präsidentschaft von Donald Trump dürfte auf alle Themen der internationalen Beziehungen enorme Auswirkungen haben; relevant sind sie aufgrund der Weltmachtstellung der USA per se für alle Akteure. Trumps politische Inhalte unterscheiden sich gravierend von früheren...