Maintaining Effectiveness in a Challenging Aid Environment
In 2010, UNFPA surpassed funding targets for regular and other resources and secured multi-year commitments from 46 countries. Twenty-one donors made contributions exceeding $1 million. Total regular and other income in 2010 was about $870 million, up from $783 million in 2009.
Income
Regular income totalled $507.7 million, an increase of $21.3 million (4.4 per cent) over the 2009 total of $486.4 million. The 2010 total includes $491.2 million in voluntary contributions from governments and private donors, $10.1 million in interest income and $6.4 million in other income. Regular resources, mostly comprising government commitments, provide reliable, flexible support for UNFPA programmes in developing countries. They also are used for programme administration and management. Other contributions in 2010 totalled $362.3 million, an increase of $65.7 million (22.2 per cent) from $296.6 million in 2009. The 2010 figure includes interest and other income of $1.6 million. Income from other resources is earmarked for specific activities, and encompasses trust funds, cost-sharing programme arrangements and other restricted funds.
Expenditures
Project expenditures from regular resources in 2010 totaled $366.2 million, compared to $347.8 million in 2009. The 2010 figure includes $315 million for country and regional programmes, compared to $304 million in 2009; and $51.3 million for global and other programmes, compared to $43.8 million for 2009. UNFPA provided $174.1 million in assistance for reproductive health, $76.6 million for population and development, $43.5 million for gender equality and women’s empowerment, and $72.1 million for programme coordination and assistance. These expenditures enabled UNFPA to carry out recommendations approved by the UNFPA Executive Board.
Regional spending
In 2010, UNFPA provided support to 123 developing countries, areas and territories: 45 in sub-Saharan Africa, 14 in the Arab States, 20 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 21 in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 23 in Asia and the Pacific. Sub-Saharan Africa received the largest percentage of UNFPA regular resources at $135.9 million, followed by Asia and the Pacific at $96 million, Latin America and the Caribbean at $38.8 million, the Arab States at $27.3 million, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia at $16.9 million.
Management highlights
UNFPA stepped up efforts in 2010 to strengthen accountability and increase institutional capacities in financial management, especially in country and regional offices and in support of nationally executed projects. UNFPA’s Ethics Office in 2010 designed a training module on supervisory accountability and ethical behavior in the workplace. UNFPA complied 100 per cent with the requirements of the annual financial disclosure programme.
UNFPA expanded and deepened advocacy and programming partnerships with stakeholders at the global, regional and country levels in 2010. For example, an existing partnership among UNFPA, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and UNAIDS—together known as the “Health Four Plus,” supported and will help implement the Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, which aims to improve the health of hundreds of millions of women and children around the world.
UNFPA collaborated with other United Nations entities in a record 244 joint programmes in 2010.
At the country level, UNFPA offices entered into or expanded partnerships that are strengthening national capacity to advocate for the agenda of the ICPD through outreach to media, new publications, public events, training, seminars and workshops.
