Publications

To meet this millennium’s tough global challenges we must be armed with good ideas. As such, the UN Foundation frequently enlists both internal experts and external thought leaders to produce publications that better illuminate the challenges we face and present fresh ideas for meeting those challenges.  Our publications, ranging from the seminal Sigma-Xi report on climate change to our survey of the use of mobile technology among NGOs, can be found below.

RESOURCES

  1. mHealth for Development: The Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World

    Issue Area: Technology

    This report examines issues at the heart of the rapidly evolving intersection of mobile phones and healthcare. It helps the reader to understand mHealth’s scope and implementation across developing regions, the health needs to which mHealth can be applied, and the mHealth applications that promise the greatest impact on heath care initiatives.

  2. 2025-Fields for Food or Fuel?

    Issue Area: Climate & Energy

    A multi-stakeholder scenario planning initiative that brought together experts in industry, agriculture, policy, and trade to explore how the agricultural resources as raw material for both the food/feed, fuel and other non-food sectors might shape the business, societal and regulatory environment in the global context over the next 20 years.

  3. We Agree: Renew the U.S.-UN Relationship

    Issue Area: US-UN Relations

    The UN cannot succeed without strong U.S. leadership and support. The next President has a unique opportunity to revitalize the U.S.-UN relationship as a symbol of America's commitment to constructive international cooperation. This investment will pay off substantially by helping to enhance our standing internationally and strengthen our ability to keep America safe and strong.

  4. Religion and America's Role in the World

    Issue Area: US-UN Relations

    Issue Area: Women & Population

    The UN Foundation and Religion & Ethics News Weekly Public supported public opinion research that examined the role that religion plays in shaping people’s views about America’s role in the world and foreign policy priorities. The report explores how religion impacts Americans’ views on whether the U.S. should take an interventionist or isolationist posture on such key issues as the war on terrorism, humanitarian disaster relief and women’s rights around the world.

  5. mHealth for Development

    Issue Area: Technology

    The most recent publication in our series—mHealth for Development: Mobile Communications for Health—outlines the opportunity presented by the burgeoning field of mobile health (mHealth). The publication examines the rapid adoption of mobile technologies by developing countries to improve health data collection - ultimately precipitating improvements in general health and patient care in some of the most remote and resource-poor regions of the world.

  6. Sustainable Bioenergy Development in UEMOA Member Countries

    Issue Area: Climate & Energy

    The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and The Hub for Rural Development in West and Central Africa.

  7. Mobile Phone Banking & Low-Income Customers

    Issue Area: Technology

    The UN Foundation-Vodafone Foundation Partnership collaborated with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and South Africa’s Finmark Trust to examine the role of mobile phones in delivering banking services to the poor. The study aims to improve the ability of governments, NGOs, and service providers to give poor people access to banking and other financial services needed to relieve poverty, raise standards of living and create economic development.

  8. Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO mobile use

    Issue Area: Technology

    A survey pulling together 560 non-governmental organization (NGO) workers that was designed to demonstrate how NGOs are using wireless technology to help reach various social, civil, economic, and political goals.

  9. Building Global Alliances in the Fight Against Terrorism

    Issue Area: US-UN Relations

    Alistair Millar and Eric Rosand

    Alistair Millar and Eric Rosand of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation show how the U.S. benefits when it cooperates and works with partners in the international fight against terrorism.

  10. 10 Years of making a difference

    Issue Area: Children’s Health

    Issue Area: Climate & Energy

    Issue Area: Sustainable Development

    Issue Area: Technology

    Issue Area: US-UN Relations

    Issue Area: Women & Population

    10 year report on how the role of the UN Foundation has changed and developed.

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