Australia

Donor Rankings, 2022

13^th Core Contributions

8^th Non Core Contributions

12^th Overall Contributions

Donor rankings include UN-to-UN transfers, which are UNFPA's top source of revenue overall.

The Government of Australia takes a comprehensive approach to advancing the rights of women and girls, targeting its investments to initiatives that enhance gender equality, global health and humanitarian relief. These efforts include issues such as leadership, economic empowerment, sexual and reproductive health, ending gender-based violence, family planning, and maternal health, with a strong focus on the Indo-Pacific region. The AUD 30 million Transformative Agenda for Women, Adolescents and Youth 2018-2022 is one of Australia’s largest partnerships with UNFPA and aims to improve access to sexual and reproductive health and rights with a focus on family planning in six Pacific countries.

In addition to naming women’s and girls' rights as one of six investment priority areas, Australia’s foreign assistance policy states that “80 per cent of investments, regardless of their objectives, will effectively address gender issues in their implementation.” This approach creates a measurable and tangible framework through which to enact gender mainstreaming and affirms the relevance of the partnership with UNFPA.

Specific areas of collaboration include: population data, family planning, safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS prevention, ending gender-based violence and promoting disability-inclusive development. Australia’s humanitarian contributions support sexual and reproductive health care, as well as supplies for preventing and treating gender-based violence in disaster-prone countries across the Indo-Pacific region, Asia and the Middle East. The Government of Australia also supports UNFPA Supplies, which facilitates access to reproductive health commodities.

Key Results 2022

953

Maternal deaths averted

409,676

Unintended pregnancies prevented

112,786

Unsafe abortions prevented

65,100

Women and young people reached with sexual and reproductive health services

158,100

Sexually transmitted infections prevented by provision of female and male condoms

1,829,000

Years of protection provided from unintended pregnancy

465

Women and girls living with obstetric fistula received treatment

3,627

HIV infections prevented by providing female and male condoms

198,400

Marginalized girls were reached by life skills programmes

43,400

women, adolescents and youth received high-quality services related to harmful practices

3,454

Girls saved from female genital mutilation

Key results are for illustrative purposes only, and reflect what a donor has contributed to through funding to UNFPA in 2022. Key results presented here may not reflect the figures provided by government donors.

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Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.

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News & Updates

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Empowering Youth to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

UNITED NATIONS, New York - “We want to stress the fact that youth cannot and will not be ignored. We may be young, but we have experienced female genital mutilation. We know how it feels. We understand it. Ending it is…

12 March 2014 Read Story

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UNFPA and UN Women Launch Joint Global Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls…

UNITED NATIONS, New York – UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and UN Women are joining forces to launch a new programme that will improve the quality of and access to essential services that respond to the needs of women and girls subjected to violence.

The four-year Joint Global Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence aims to reach global consensus on standards and guidelines for delivering quality essential services, providing technical advice to implement them, and building the capacity of service providers to deliver them.…

04 December 2013 Read Story

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Australia Supports UNFPA Efforts to Provide Health Care for Displaced Sri Lankan Women

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The Australian Government will donate $383,400 (AUD 500,000) to support efforts by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to meet the health needs of thousands of women displaced by the conflict in northern Sri Lanka.

About 75,000 of the 280,000 recently displaced people living in camps in the area are women and girls of reproductive age who need basic hygiene support and reproductive health care; an estimated 6,000 are pregnant and in urgent need of services, including potentially lifesaving obstetric care.

The funding will enable UNFPA to…

15 June 2009 Read Story