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.

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  1. Celebrate, Innovate and Sustain: Toward 2015 and Beyond - The United States' Strategy for Meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals

    Issue Area: Children’s Health

    Issue Area: Climate & Energy

    Issue Area: Sustainable Development

    Issue Area: Technology

    Issue Area: UN-US Relations

    Issue Area: Women & Population

    Obama Administration officials unveiled the U.S. Government’s strategy for advancing the Millennium Development Goals on July 30, 2010, with an emphasis on innovative and sustainable approaches to the world’s most urgent challenges, during a high-level working session hosted by the United Nations Foundation.

  2. Girls Speak: A New Voice in Global Development

    Issue Area: Women & Population

    Girls Speak: A New Voice in Global Development shows that girls’ insights in development increase impact and effectiveness. These five actions will help make the unheard heard.

  3. mHealth Barriers

    Barriers and Gaps Affecting mHealth in Low and Middle Income Countries

    Issue Area: Technology

    Commissioned by the mHealth Alliance and written by The Earth Institute at Columbia University, the policy paper "Barriers and Gaps Affecting mHealth in Low and Middle Income Countries" provides an in-depth analysis of the current challenges and obstacles hindering the meaningful implementation and scaling of mobile health (mHealth) projects aiming to strengthen health systems and attain global health goals. Still in its infancy, mHealth – the use of mobile technologies for health – runs the risk of not realizing its full potential. This report identifies policy barriers and research gaps that undermine the field of mHealth and offers recommendations on how to strategically maximize its benefits.

  4. New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks

    Issue Area: Technology

    Our latest report -- New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks -- looks at innovation in the use of technology along the timeline of crisis response, from emergency preparedness and alerts to recovery and rebuilding. It profiles organizations whose work is advancing the frontlines of innovation, offers an overview of international efforts to increase sophistication in the use of IT and social networks during emergencies, and provides recommendations for how governments, aid groups and international organizations can leverage this innovation to improve community resilience.

  5. Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health

    Issue Area: Children’s Health

    Issue Area: Climate & Energy

    Rapid changes to the climate and in land use endanger the health of hundreds of millions of people worldwide and now represent the greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. The scale of these global changes threatens access to adequate food, clean air, safe drinking water, and secure homes. Poor populations, mainly in developing countries, are the most vulnerable to these environmental changes, even though they are the least responsible for contributing to them.

  6. UN Foundation Newsletter (Fall 2009)

    Issue Area: Children’s Health

    Issue Area: Climate & Energy

    Issue Area: Sustainable Development

    Issue Area: Technology

    Issue Area: UN-US Relations

    Issue Area: Women & Population

    A semi-annual newsletter highlighting the UN Foundation's programs and people.

  7. Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health

    Issue Area: Women & Population

    Center for Global Development

    The report highlights serious health risks that are especially prevalent among women and girls, calls for increased action and investment in girls’ education and health agendas, and explains how the combined help of governments, non-governmental organizations, individuals and the private sector, can improve health prospects for millions of women around the world.

  8. Core Elements 2009

    Meeting the Climate Challenge: Core Elements of an Effective Response to Climate Change

    Issue Area: Climate & Energy

    UN Foundation & Center for American Progress

    New findings show most emissions reductions needed by 2020 can be met with policy measures that will return net cost-savings.

  9. Enhancing Private Investment in Clean Energy in Developing Countries

    Issue Area: Climate & Energy

    On September 21, 2009, GLCA member and former World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, chaired a roundtable discussion on Financing Low Carbon Energy in Developing Countries that brought together private sector investors and public policy experts in New York. This paper was prepared as a background note for the roundtable discussion.

  10. Sizing the Business Potential of mHealth in the Global South: A Practical Approach

    Issue Area: Technology

    Sustainable business strategies are essential to the successful scaling of mHealth projects everywhere, yet only a vanguard of companies have begun making significant investments in mHealth. This report identifies critical success factors for stimulating cross-sector collaboration and proposes three methodological approaches to sizing the mHealth market.

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