Funding
The goodwill of government partners ensured record funding of US$7.2 billion in 2018, but the needs continue to grow. Donor contributions were largely channelled into our highest-level, conflict-driven hunger crises, leaving less to address lower-profile emergencies. Flexible funding, while modest in relative terms, allows WFP to direct funds to programmes threatened by budget shortfalls and bridge the gap for operations under threat.
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7.2
US$ billion
contributions received
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2.8
US$ billion
overall WFP funding gap
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420
US$ million
received in multilateral funding (up 10% from 2017)
WFP assistance is funded by voluntary contributions from governments, private sector organizations and individual donors. WFP’s top 10 government donors (excluding UN pooled funds) in 2018 were:
1 | USA | 2,539,816,503 |
2 | European Commission | 1,111,678,862 |
3 | Germany | 849,114,043 |
4 | United Kingdom | 617,124,851 |
5 | Saudi Arabia | 247,907,959 |
6 | United Arab Emirates | 226,215,581 |
7 | Canada | 218,393,483 |
8 | Sweden | 145,368,421 |
9 | Japan | 130,001,824 |
10 | Norway | 89,996,849 |
For more information on funding please visit wfp.org/funding