FUNDING FUNDING Funding overview in 2018 This chapter presents an overview of UN Human Rights funding in 2018 and of funding trends since 2010. TOTAL VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS: $278.3M $187.1M 89 DONORS of which 63 are Member States Annual Appeal (extrabudgetary requirements) $278.3M Total voluntary contributions $187.1M Expenditure (extrabudgetary) $155.8M OVERVIEW OF FUNDING SOURCES TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE $312.7M Extrabudgetary (XB) $187.1M XB expenditure HQ and Field 41% 59% HQ Field UNFUNDED BREAKDOWN OF DONORS BY BRACKETS OF CONTRIBUTIONS Regular budget (RB) $125.6M $10-22M (55.2%*) XB contributions received by type of contribution Denmark, European Commission, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United States of America BREAKDOWN OF DONORS BY GEOGRAPHIC GROUP Unearmarked 4 54 Asia-Pacific Group 14 54 Eastern European Group $131.4M (70%) Earmarked 14 $5-10M (26.4%*) TOP SOURCES OF UNEARMARKED XB Norway 15.5% Sweden 13.2% Belgium, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, UNDP (UN pooled funds and trust funds), United Kingdom Netherlands 10.4% 23 Latin American and Caribbean Group 33 7 Western European and Others Group 24 29 European Commission 9% Denmark 7.7% Other donors 44.2% * $2-5M (9.6%*) Australia, Finland, France, Italy, Ireland, New Zealand, Russian Federation $1-2M (4.6%*) Japan, OCHA, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Spain, Saudi Arabia Less than $1M (4.2%*) Other donors UN Human Rights is partially funded through assessed contributions from Member States to the United Nations regular budget and partially funded through voluntary contributions (extrabudgetary funding) from donors, the majority of whom are Member States. the Human Rights Council. However, the regular budget allocation is not currently keeping pace with the ongoing growth in the number and scope of the General Assembly human rights mandates. Furthermore, the approved 2018-2019 regular budget entailed a number of reductions resulting from General Assembly decisions, including across-the-board cuts in a number of key areas. As a result, UN Human Rights has no option but to rely on voluntary contributions to finance more than 20 per cent of its officially mandated activities that ought to be financed by the regular budget. African Group $55.7M (30%) 72 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2018 Continuous improvements in the level, flexibility, timeliness and predictability of voluntary contributions, and diversification of the donor base, are essential to ensure UN Human Rights has the resources it needs to achieve the goals of the OHCHR Management Plan (OMP) 2018-2021. non-State donors (private, multilateral donors, etc.) 26 In 2018, the first year of the OMP 20182021, UN Human Rights’ total income was US$312.7 million. Of this total, 59.8 per cent came from voluntary contributions and 40.2 per cent came from the United Nations regular budget. In 2018, the approved regular budget appropriation for UN Human Rights, as a department of the United Nations Secretariat, was US$125.6 million, which is just under 3.7 per cent of the total UN regular budget. More specifically, excluding funds it apportions to the human rights components of peacekeeping operations, out of 51.7 per cent of the total regular budget resources directed to the three UN system pillars, the UN regular budget allocates 7.7 per cent to the human rights pillar; the other two pillars being development and peace and security. OHCHR - FUNDING OVERVIEW Voluntary contributions Regular budget appropriation 350 300 250 million US$ ANNUAL APPEAL 200 150 As a matter of principle, the UN regular budget should finance all activities that are mandated by the General Assembly and its subsidiary organs, including by 100 50 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Of total amount of voluntary contributions UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2018 73