Project

Global Governance Innovation Platform

Exploring innovative governance structures and decision-making mechanisms for solutions to today’s complex global challenges.

Date Published
6 Jan 2025
Project Types
Research Research and Capacity Development
Project Status
Active
GGI

The Global Governance Innovation Platform helps UN Member States design new multilateral institutions and reform existing ones. Through interactive mapping and data visualization, we identify and showcase innovative governance models and mechanisms that can be adapted to address urgent global challenges and collective action problems.

World Bank Junior Professional take photo with World Bank President George Woods

Operationalizing Institutional Vitality

A Framework for Analysis
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Publications

Policy Brief

Misinformation, Disinformation and the Crisis of Trust in Public Institutions

A multilevel agenda for information integrity in an era of fragmented data governance.

03 Aug 2026

Report

Governing with Evidence: How the UN System Generates, Mobilizes and Uses Science

How does the UN use science to shape global decisions? A new UNU-CPR report maps the multilateral science-policy ecosystem.

19 Jun 2026

Policy Brief

International Inequality and Post-Quantum Cryptography

What happens when quantum computers can break today's encryption?

10 Jun 2026

Events

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Toward a Coherent Climate Architecture

Linking Multilateral Reform to Local Resilience

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GGI Workshop

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Designing Next-Generation Science-Policy Interfaces

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Reimagining Climate Governance: Reforms, Models and Actions

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Reimagining Climate Governance: Reforms, Models and Actions

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Workshop

Fostering Partnerships between DC and New York for Development Financing and Multilateralism

Advancing debt sustainability and multilateral cooperation ahead of FfD4.

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Symposium

A survey of designs for a new global sovereign debt mechanism

Strengthening the global debt architecture: design options for a more predictable, equitable and reliable system

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The road to 1.3T: the Baku to Belém roadmap

Aligning climate finance with real economy needs and demographic realities.

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Global governance innovation alliance workshop

Collecting the insights of global alliances to inform the design of new multilateral mechanisms and address a range of challenges.

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Conference

Yale food security conference: lessons for global economic governance

How emerging economies, multilateral institutions and geopolitics continue to shape - and strain - the global food system.

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Rethinking global debt: reforming the international financial architecture

UNU-CPR experts joined the Helsinki Symposium to chart practical, politically viable solutions for a more equitable global financial system.

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Innovative finance to ensure stability in the face of adverse climate change impacts

Exploring strategic solutions for resilient climate finance and real economy stability.

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