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11th Resource Flows Newsletter

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Project Publications

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RF Newsletter

The RF Newsletter is a tool to inform the public about resource tracking for population and AIDS activities in general and the role of the RF project in particular. The RF project publishes three Newsletters per year.

The last Newsletter contains the following two articles: (1) An overview of the main results of the latest projection report Projections of Funds for Population and AIDS Activities 2006-2008 in which projections for financial resource flows for population and AIDS activities for the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 are given. The report gives an insight into the size and structure of the flow of funds generated by donors and by the governments and NGOs in developing countries for this period. (2) A summary of the Guidelines For Producing Reproductive Health Sub Accounts Within The National Health Accounts Framework prepared by a Working Group of the WHO, UNFPA, USAID, the Inter-American Development Bank, and NIDI. The Guidelines have been developed as a tool to measure resource expenditures for reproductive health activities.

We hope you will find the Newsletter useful. If you have any comments/suggestions, or contributions to a future Newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Financial Resource Flows for Population Activities Report (FRFPAR)

This report is the most comprehensive publication of the Resource Flows project and is annually published by UNFPA. The FRFPAR summarises all donor and domestic data collected in the mail surveys. The donor section of the FRFPAR summarises primary funds and final expenditures of selected donors categorised by type of organisation, ICPD-categories, channels of distribution and regions. The domestic section of the FRFPAR summarises domestic expenditures made by national governments and NGOs in developing countries and countries in transition.

Projections of Funds for Population and AIDS Activities

The Resource Flows Project has been engaged in making estimates and projections for financial resource flows since 2003. The first pilot estimation exercise was conducted in 2003 and covered resource flows from donor governments and governments and NGOs in developing countries and countries in transition. For the donor countries, these estimates were updated in summer 2004. In the fall of 2004, the method was thoroughly revised and different estimation possibilities were investigated. This exercise resulted in the report Assessing size and structure of worldwide funds for population and AIDS activities. Subsequent projection reports follows the same estimation methodology and can in that respect be viewed as an update of that report. The documents (in PDF format) can be downloaded here:

Advocacy Brochure - Financing the ICPD Programme of Action (UNFPA)

The message ten years after Cairo is clear: current levels of resource mobilisation are inadequate to fully implement the ICPD agenda.

This colorful brochure provides useful information on the following issues: Who funds population activities, Where is the money going? How much do we need? and How does the current population assistance compare to the ICPD targets. The brochure is an excellent introduction into the world of global resource tracking for population activities while, at the same time, it suits many advocacy purposes.

Regional Brochures

Comparing Expectations and Realizations in Population and HIV/AIDS Funding by Donors

To arrive at timely data to monitor the process of funding for population and HIV/AIDS activities, the UNFPA/NIDI Resource Flows Project generates predictions. In making these predictions for donors and domestic governments in developing countries and countries in transition, the project relies not only on mechanistic model predictions, but, to a large extent on future expected expenditures as reported by the donor governments and domestic organizations themselves. Using the data on expected spending by donors is a good method as long as these data are good forecasters of the future. At present, the number of predictions (in the form of future expected expenditures) is still small, but we can perform some tests to see whether these predictions are overestimates or underestimates of what has been realized in terms of donor funding. The analysis and results of the exercise are presented in the research paper entitled Comparing Expectations and Realizations in Population and HIV/AIDS Funding by Donors that can be downloaded and viewed here:

What Drives Donor Funding in Population Assistance Programs?

The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of burdens and level of donor contributions... Click here to download the PDF document of this publication.

Report of the Secretary-General on the Flow of Financial Resources for Assisting in the Implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development

This report is annually presented to the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) of the United Nations and contains information on donor assistance and domestic expenditures from year t-2 and major findings of the estimations and projections exercises from year t-1 and year t respectively.

Reproductive Health Accounts of Karnataka: A mapping exercise to sketch the reproductive health system.

In an exercise jointly carried out by the Center for Multi-disciplinary Development Research (CMDR), Dharwad, India and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, the Netherlands a study was conducted that lays the foundation to the development of Reproductive Health Accounts (RHA) for the state of Karnataka, India. The study, written under aegis of the RF project, is entitled Reproductive Health Accounts of Karnataka: A mapping exercise to sketch the reproductive health system. The PDF document can be viewed and downloaded below.

Out-of-Pocket Expenditures Nepal

As in many other developing countries, the government of Nepal is facing increasing pressure to improve the efficiency and financial viability of the health service delivery system, particularly in light of renewed commitments to improve living conditions for the poor. The present Out Of Pocket Expenditure (OOPE) study examines the financial burden for reproductive health and HIV/AIDS of individuals and households in the urban areas of Nepal in order to contribute to developing social welfare policies. The research assesses the utilization of services and out-of-pocket spending on these services by individuals and households, and relates the expenditures to wealth status, household spending and the costs of provider services.

Latin American and Caribbean Out-of-Pocket Expenditures

Out-of-pocket expenditure on HIV/AIDS services and goods is the component in National HIV/AIDS Accounts that is most difficult to measure. Despite the pressing need for national data on out-of-pocket spending on HIV/AIDS, at present, for only a few countries in the world these data are available; the majority of them for the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. Using 1999-2002 aggregated data for 20 LAC countries from SIDALAC, the paper examines the levels of out-of-pocket expenditure on HIV/AIDS in LAC countries and explores macro-indicators that could predict out-of-pocket expenditure on HIV/AIDS in countries that lack these statistics.

Feedback reports Domestics 2006

Within the framework of the domestic survey, once a year feedback report are send to the countries that provided us with data. These reports consist of detailed country information, based upon the information received. The feedback report gives the respondent an opportunity to check the information from their country as processed into the RF database.

After this clearance process the reports are published on this site for the general public.

The contents of the reports:

Table 1: Gives an overview of the governmental departments and national NGOs, who provided the data.

Table 2: Table 2 shows the information given by the national consultant about the national budget. This table and table 3 also give the possibility to compare, to what extent the data given by the organizations cover the national budget.

Tables 3 - 5: These tables show (based on the provided data) information about the reported income.

Table 6: This table shows the reported domestic expenditures by source and ICPD category.

Table 7: Based on the information provided by the organizations, table 7 gives an overview of the expected expenditures: Total and HIV/AIDS

What is the RF Project?

Posted by: Resource Flows on Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:18:24
The Resource Flows (RF) project was established in 1997 and is a joint collaboration between The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). The aim of the RF project is to monitor global financial flows for population and AIDS activities.

Why the RF Project?

Posted by: Resource Flows on Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:17:48
The RF project stems from the Programme of Action agreed upon at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD, 1994) and is reinforced by the Declaration of Commitment developed at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS, 2001). The two conferences outlined the financial resources required to address population and AIDS issues world-wide and committed the international community to these requirements. The RF project was established to monitor expenditures related to population and AIDS and to advocate for the mobilisation of adequate funds to ensure that ICPD and UNGASS promises are realised.
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