Strategic Foresight

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.

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.

Exploration of the multi-faceted opportunities and risks that digital innovation can bring to social connections and community cohesion among migrants and host communities.

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.

This brief showcases how two large Chinese companies leverage advanced liquid-cooling systems to cool their data centres.

The Global E-waste Monitor 2020 provides comprehensive insight to address the global e-waste challenge.

Highlights from the innovation efforts of UN Entities in the third quarter of 2021.

Highlights from the innovation efforts of UN Entities in the first quarter of 2021.

This Playbook aims to kickstart an exchange of practices and strategies between city leaders on cultivating Smart Innovations in their diverse contexts.

This brief shares different approaches to and experiences with scanning the horizon for innovative ideas within or outside of organisations.

Explore how UN Entities are leveraging innovation to respond to COVID-19.

Explore how UN Entities are leveraging innovation to respond to COVID-19.

Highlights from the innovation efforts of UN Entities in the third quarter of 2020.

Highlights from the innovation efforts of 40+ UN Entities throughout 2020.

The Foresight Playbook explores entry points to incorporate foresight approaches, methodologies, and tools into UNDP’s work with the aim of building anticipatory capacities to better respond to risk, uncertainty, and opportunities in the future.

The event provided an overview of trends and developments in child sexual exploitation online, and discuss how AI might be leveraged to turn the tide on child sexual exploitation investigations.