Development Aid

(asked on 8th November 2022) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what their financial contributions were to (1) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), (2) UNICEF, (3) UNAIDS, (4) WHO, (5) UN Women, (6) The Global Fund, and (7) International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20, and (c) 2020-21.


This question was answered on 22nd November 2022

Table 1 shows UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the form of core contributions to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, for the period 2018 to 2020. Additionally, the UK uses these multilateral organisations as a delivery partner for bilateral aid ("multi-bi" ODA), except for UNAIDS.

The International Planned Parenthood Federation is an international NGO to which the UK provided £5million of bilateral funding in 2018, £35million in 2019 and £49million in 2020, as set out in Table 2.

Table 1 - UK ODA: Core Contributions to Selected Multilateral Organisations (2018-2020, £million)

Organisation

2018

2019

2020

United Nations Population Fund

20

20

20

United Nations Children's Fund

48

48

48

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

15

15

15

World Health Organisation: voluntary contribution

30

35

5

World Health Organisation: assessed contribution

13

13

13

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

13

13

13

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

360

370

476

Table 2 - UK ODA: Bilateral ODA to International Planned Parenthood Federation (2018-2020, £million)

Programme Title

2018

2019

2020

Women's Integrated Sexual Health Programme

5

33

47

Approaches in complex and challenging environments for sustainable sexual and reproductive health and rights (ACCESS)

1

1

Preventing Recourse to Unsafe Abortion - supporting locally led initiatives (SAAF)

1

1

Source: Statistics on International Development 2020

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