Donor Government Funding for Family Planning in 2022
Key Findings
FP2030, “Measurement Report, 2023”, April 2024.
Family planning totals are different from those reported last year due to updated data received after the 2022 report was published as well as a change in methodology that incorporates the family planning adjusted share of core contributions to UNFPA (see Methodological Note). Donor amounts do not exactly sum up to total amounts due to rounding.
In most cases, donor governments provide funding data in their currency of origin, which are converted to U.S. dollars for this report (see Methods). The rise in value of the U.S. dollar globally in 2022 resulted in exchange rate fluctuations that exacerbated any changes in family planning funding between 2021 and 2022 when converting a donor government’s totals from currency of origin to U.S. dollars.
Denmark and Sweden attributed their declines to budgetary needs associated with the humanitarian response to the conflict in Ukraine. Declines by Australia, Germany, and Sweden followed significant increases in 2021 and returned funding levels approximately to prior year amounts.
Report
KFF, “Donor Government Funding for HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in 2022”, July 2023.
UNFPA provides an annual estimate of the funding amount from its core resources directed to family planning activities (see Methods).
UNFPA reports core contributions in USD after adjusting from currency of origin to a USD equivalent based on the exchange rate on the date of receipt. To assess whether a donor government’s total core contribution increased, decreased, or remained flat, these amounts were converted back to currency of origin. Since information on the date of receipt was not available, an average of the daily exchange rate for a given year was used and was based on foreign exchange rate historical data available from the U.S. Federal Reserve or in some cases from the OECD.
In 2022, the U.S. core contribution to UNFPA included the direct appropriation ($30.6 million) provided by Congress as well as a one-time $20 million contribution provided by the Biden administration through available funding from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (P.L. 117-2).