FUNDING PREDICTABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY JUNIOR PROFESSIONAL OFFICERS, 2017-2019 UN Human Rights opened 2019 with only US$60 million of predictable income in pledged contributions that were annual instalments of multi-year funding agreements. In 2019, UN Human Rights had such agreements with 16 donors, including 11 Member States (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), the European Commission and four other donors (the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Microsoft and the Open Society Foundations). Some Member States provided UN Human Rights with additional, indirect financial support by contributing to the United Nations Junior Professional Officers (JPO) Programme, which is administered by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in New York. As of 31 December, UN Human Rights had 32 JPOs (23 women, nine men) who SPONSOR NATIONAL JPOs (+ NON-NATIONALS) 2017 were supported by the Governments of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland (see table below). Switzerland and the Netherlands also funded JPOs who were nationals of developing countries. Non-nationals amounted to six out of 32 in 2019. NATIONAL JPOs NATIONAL JPOs (+ NON-NATIONALS) 2018 (+ NON-NATIONALS) 2019 1 1 IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS A number of Member States, namely Colombia, Qatar and Senegal, which host UN Human Rights offices, provide in-kind support by covering costs of items, such as the rent of premises, utilities and vehicles. The corresponding contributions are credited to their assessed contributions to the United Nations regular budget. MEMBER STATE NATURE OF IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION ESTIMATED FAIR VALUE US$ Rental of Premises 294,898.00 Provision of armoured vehicle and running costs 57,694.21 Senegal Rental of Premises 90,563.00 Qatar Rental of Premises and running costs Colombia Belgium Denmark 10 8 4 Finland 1 1 1 Germany 2 Hungary 1 1 1 Italy 3 3 1 Japan 2 3 2 Republic of Korea 2 2 2 Netherlands 2 3 (+2) 3(+5) Norway 2 1 2 Saudi Arabia 1 1 Sweden 2 2 3 Switzerland 6 (+1) 3 (+1) 5(+1) Spain 1 1 United States of America 1 178,542.00 TOTAL 36 33 32 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2019 109