Funds and funding
Why core funding matters
- Thematic funds such as UNFPA Supplies, the Maternal Health Trust Fund, the Humanitarian Action Thematic Fund and the Population Data Thematic Fund. Learn more on how UNFPA’s Thematic Funds are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and strengthen longer term goals so that UNFPA continues to deliver on its transformative results
- United Nations-pooled and inter-agency mechanisms like the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage; the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation; and the Spotlight Initiative to eliminate violence against women and girls.
- Issue-based, regional or multi-country programmes and initiatives.
- Country-level, multi-level pooled funding instruments.
Other resources include consolidated global financing mechanisms and innovative financing models and instruments such as blended finance, impact investment bonds, financial and insurance products, social entrepreneurship, debt swaps and guarantees.
Successful sustainable development also requires dynamic and inclusive strategic partnerships.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York/BERLIN, Germany - UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is pleased to announce that the Government of Germany has increased its flexible funding by €30 million to support our global response to the COVID-19 crisis.