FUNDING in 2016, 54 per cent in 2015 and 2014, 56 per cent in 2013 and 57.5 per cent in 2012). Over the past few years, the increase in the share of the United Nations regular budget for UN Human Rights activities was due to the additional resources that were allocated to cover the Treaty Body Strengthening Process and in relation to additional mandates, including commissions of inquiry, that were established by the Human Rights Council. Earmarking Although the overall funding allocated to UN Human Rights increased by 10 per cent in 2017, this consisted of both earmarked and unearmarked contributions. Some of the increase in earmarking can be attributed to the receipt of more local funding for field activities and contributions from non-traditional budget lines that can only be accessed as earmarked funds (such as humanitarian and development budget lines). Other contributions that were previously unearmarked have been transformed into more circumscribed funding. Regular budget versus voluntary contributions Overall, approximately 44 per cent of the funding for UN Human Rights came from the United Nations regular budget (compared with 45 per cent in 2016 and 46 per cent in 2015 and 2014, 44 per cent in 2013 and 42.5 per cent in 2012) and 56 per cent came from voluntary contributions (compared with 55 per cent Nonetheless, in 2017, UN Human Rights received US$61.4 million in unearmarked funds (the second highest amount received) from 50 donors, thereby reversing a downward trend that had been observed since 2014 (43 per cent in 2017 compared with 38 per cent in 2016, 37 per cent in 2015, down from 47 per cent in 2014 and 54 per cent in 2013). Overall, any decline in the level of contributions received without earmarking limits the Office’s capacity to apply resources where they are most urgently re- UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2017 81