FUNDING
Korea, Luxemburg, Switzerland, the
Korea International Cooperation Agency
(KOICA) and the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency
(SIDA) (see table below). Germany and
Luxembourg funded UNVs who were
nationals of developing countries. Of
the 19 UNVs, 15 were young persons
between 18 and 29 years of age.
UNITED NATIONS VOLUNTEERS,
2017-2019
In addition, UN Human Rights benefited
from indirect financial support through
the United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
Programme, which is administered by
UNDP. In 2019, a total of 104 UNVs served
with UN Human Rights, of whom 31 per
cent were national UNVs and 67 per
cent were women. As of 31 December,
UN Human Rights had 19 UNVs who
were fully funded by the Governments
of Finland, Germany, the Republic of
SPONSOR
UNVs
NATIONALS OF
THE DONOR
COUNTRY
The table below shows the number of
UNVs that were fully funded by Member
States, including non-nationals of the
Member States.
UNVs
NATIONALS OF
THE DONOR
COUNTRY
UNVs
NATIONALS OF
THE DONOR
COUNTRY
(+ NON-NATIONALS)
2017
(+ NON-NATIONALS)
2018
(+ NON-NATIONALS)
2019
Finland
1
1
1
France
1
1
Germany
1 (+1)
1 (+1)
Ireland
1
1
Republic of Korea
2
2
Luxembourg
(+1)
(+1)
Norway
1
1
Sweden
1
1
3
Switzerland
7
7
9 (+1)
17
17
19
TOTAL
1
4
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