Financial Resource Flows for Population Activities in 2007
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International population assistance for 2007 increased to US $8.7 billion from the 2006 level of $7.4 billion. Developed countries, foundations and NGOs increased funding levels in 2007 as compared to 2006, while the United Nations system decreased funding (Table 1). Development bank lending for population activities increased in 2007 while bank grants decreased. Population assistance from developed countries represented 6.93 per cent of official development assistance (ODA) in 2007, up from 6.07 per cent in 2006 (Table 2). Funding levels for individual countries are shown in Table 3. The top five donors in 2007 were: the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden and the European Union.
Seventy-five per cent of all population assistance in 2007 was expended for STD/HIV/AIDS activities, while 5 per cent was spent on family planning services, 17 per cent was spent on basic reproductive health services, and 3 per cent was expended for basic research, data and population and development policy analysis. Funding for STD/HIV/AIDS increased steadily since 1995, from 9 per cent of total population assistance to 75 per cent in 2007, consistent with the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Funding for basic research, data and population and development policy analysis decreased steadily from 1995 to 2001, from 18 per cent to 8 per cent of total population assistance, increased to 12 per cent in 2004 and decreased to 3 per cent in 2007. Funding for family planning services decreased from 55 per cent in 1995 to 5 per cent in 2007, while funding for basic reproductive health services, which stood at 18 per cent in 1995, peaked at 33 per cent in 1996 then decreased with fluctuations over the years until it stood at 17 per cent in 2007 (Table 4).
In contrast with previous years when NGO sources remained the preferred channel of distribution of funding, 49 per cent of population assistance in 2007 flowed through the bilateral channel, 27 per cent went through the multilateral channel and 24 percent of population assistance flowed through the NGO channel (Table 5).
Forty-three per cent of all population assistance in 2007 went to global and interregional activities. Sub-Saharan Africa received by far the most assistance going to individual regions, followed by Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Western Asia and North Africa, and Eastern and Southern Europe (Table 6).
The complete report, Financial Resource Flows for Population Activities in 2007, will be available on the Resource Flows and UNFPA web sites (www.resourceflows.org and www.unfpa.org). Data on expenditures for population activities in fiscal year 2008 are being collected. The survey on expenditures in fiscal year 2009 will begin in the spring of 2010. Respondents are kindly requested to submit information on population funding as soon as possible to ensure timely publication of data. The information collected is used for advocacy purposes to mobilize the required resources to finance population programmes in developing countries and to plan for an effective response to the AIDS pandemic.
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