Funding of the United Nations

1. Sources of UN funding

2. Who decides how the money is spent?

3. UN Investments

1. Sources of UN funding

• The United Nations organistion is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states.

• Assessed contributions are assigned by an assesment scale , so that the states with the largest economies ( like the USA, Japan and Germany, ...) are responsible for about 85 % of the payments and 30 members contribute the lowest amount of 0.001 of the expenditure of the UN.

• In 1997 every member of the UN had to pay less than a quarter of a cent of their defense expenditure for UN peacekeeping operations.

• The assessment of the payments is renewed every three years.

• Members are required to pay their amount punctually , but some members don´t do this, so the UN has a lot of debts

1. Sources of UN funding

2. Who decides how the money is

spent?

General Assembly

The General Assembly approves the regular budget and determines the

assessment for each member.Each Organisation decides on its own about how to spend the money given

to them by the General Assembly.

General Assembly

•Additional Organisations

•Special Organisations

Additional Organisations

• UNICEF (United Nations Children‘s Fund)• UNEP (United Nations Environment

Programme)• WFP (World Food Programme)• UNHCR (United Nation High

Commissioner for Refugees• UNDP ( United Nation Development

Programme)

Special Organisations

• UNESCO ( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation)

• WHO (World Health Organisation)• ILO (International Labour Organisation)• IMF (International Monetary Fund)

3. UN Investments

..... the most famous projects

Voluntary payment of contribution

At pledging conferences the UN members assess the amount of their voluntary contribution on their own. Here are some examples of the sizes of their budgets:

• UNDP United Nations Development Programme 570 Mio. US$

• UNICEF United Nations Children’s Funds 1,900 Mio. US$

• UNFPA United Nations Fund of Population Activities 400 Mio. US$

• UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 610 Mio. US$

• WHO World Health Organisation 2,800 Mio. US$

• WFP World Food Programme 2,200 Mio. US$

Exceptional Partnerships I

Goals:1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education

3. Promote gender equality and empower women

4. Reduce child mortality

5. Improve maternal health

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

7. Ensure environmental sustainability

8. Develop a global partnership for development

Exceptional Partnerships II

         UNAIDS generates stronger and sustained involvement of civil society, people living with HIV, and population groups at elevated risk of HIV infection, through global, regional and national partnerships that facilitate the regular and structured engagement of civil society in policy and programme decision-making.

 ·         total budget: 140,000 US$

The End

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