The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) reported its highest-ever level of donor contributions in 2014, exceeding US$1 billion, in the context of stronger engagement with non-traditional donors such as the World Bank, the Global Fund and the Global Vaccine Alliance.
The Fund's 2014 annual report, 'A Year of Renewal,' provides a breakdown of spending by region and by purpose, showing that over half of UNFPA's resources, US$501.2 million, was directed to promoting access to sexual and reproductive health services.
2 June 2015: The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) reported its highest-ever level of donor contributions in 2014, exceeding US$1 billion, in the context of stronger engagement with non-traditional donors such as the World Bank, the Global Fund and the Global Vaccine Alliance. The Fund’s 2014 annual report, ‘A Year of Renewal,’ provides a breakdown of spending by region and by purpose, showing that over half of UNFPA’s resources, US$501.2 million, was directed to promoting access to sexual and reproductive health services.
In his report to the annual session of the Executive Board of UNFPA on 2 June 2015, UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin highlighted the outcome of the International Parliamentarians Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, on 25 April 2014, which advocated for integrating the principles of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) into the post-2015 development agenda. He emphasized that an integrated approach to human rights, resilience, individual capability and opportunity is the basis for transformational, inclusive sustainable development.
Osotimehin also highlighted the UNFPA’s campaign for investment in young adults, in particular in relation to: sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights; human capital development, especially in adolescent girls; and evidence-based analysis to enable governments to realize ‘the demographic dividend’ that can occur when falling fertility rates coincide with a large cohort of young adults entering the workforce.
The annual report notes that contributions included US$477 million to core resources and US$529 million for specific initiatives, including US$101 million for programmes in crises and emergencies, a large increase from US$41 million in 2013. It reports that, in 2014, UNFPA responded to 34 humanitarian crises and five Level 3 emergencies, in the Central African Republic, Iraq, the Philippines, South Sudan and Syria. [Publication: UNFPA Annual Report 2014] [UNFPA Executive Director’s Address to the Board]