Business Incentives
The United Institutions presents a significant portfolio of governance, program, infrastructure and financial business incentives for individual institutions, stakeholder constituencies and the international community as a whole. Incentives include, and are not limited to, the following:
Governance Incentives
- Strengthening the coherence and integration of the international architecture
- Enhancing linkages and connectivity between sectors, institutions and mechanisms
- Strengthening international cooperation, partnerships and collective action
- Strengthening engagement on the development, humanitarian, peace and human rights nexus
- Strengthening the institutional framework at the global level
- Harmonization of global, regional, national and local level activities
- Realization of the means of implementation, across global frameworks
- Revitalization of the global partnership for development
- Strengthening intersectoral and interinstitutional relations
- Building trust between sectors, institutions and policy areas
- Breaking sectoral and institutional silos
- Implementation of systemic and integrated approaches
- Strengthening institutional and sectoral capacity building
- Achieving good governance and an enabling environment
- Ensuring accountable, transparent, inclusive and effective institutions
- Realizing policy coherence across global agendas, sectors and geographies
- Strengthening multi-stakeholder cooperation, inclusion and participation
- Ensuring comprehensive, institutionalized and meaningful engagement
- Strengthening civic space and engagement
- Addressing systemic challenges within the international architecture
- Strengthening the long-term positioning of the development, peace, humanitarian and human rights sectors
- Building global team work and global solidarity
- Fostering political will and commitment
- Advancing the system-wide capacity for assembly
Program Incentives
- Unifying framework for cooperation and engagement at the global level
- Engagement with leading international organizations and stakeholders
- Coordination with international, regional and national level institutions
- Alignment with global frameworks
- Integration between economic, social and environmental dimensions
- Alignment with multi-stakeholder partnerships
- Development of comprehensive development strategies
- Improved policy coherence
- Development of systemic solutions
- Collaboration across thematic areas
- Improved inclusion and participation
- Consensus building and joint initiatives
- Improved partnership building
- Improved program planning
- Improved program coherence
- Improved program impact and results
- Improved program sustainability
- Improved networking
- Global connectivity
- Support for innovation and scaling-up of solutions
- Access to knowledge and information
- Development of best practices
- Minimizing duplication of effort
- Strengthening of nation state and IGO policy and development
- Strengthening of existing of institutions and mechanisms
- Improved public awareness and advocacy
Infrastructure Incentives
- Permanent venue for international cooperation
- Infrastructure for international cooperation
- Global network and connectivity
- Global business forums in international affairs
- Secretariat and strategic business services
- International conference center
- Office space for institutions
Financial Incentives
- System-wide infrastructure investment
- Improved policy and programme effectiveness
- Systemic and sustainable impact
- Reduced long term financial requirements and costs
- Promotion of pooled financing
- Efficiencies of scale
- Increased funding opportunity
- More efficient employment of donor community funds
- Shared resources
- Meeting and conference cost savings
- Beneficial lease rates
- Joint procurement options
- Lower Manhattan Relocation Employment Assistance Program *
- Liberty Zone tax benefits: tax deductions and accelerated depreciation benefits*
- Lower Manhattan Energy Program *
- Relocation and Employment Assistance Program *
* Business incentives applicable to prospective Lower Manhattan locations
