The Department for International Development (DFID) provided £20 million in core funding to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). UNFPA has a global mandate to assist countries to deliver better sexual reproductive health and rights, including voluntary family planning services, and gender equality; and to better understand population dynamics including growth, ageing, fertility and mortality.
DFID provided £5 million to support UNFPA’s Global Programme for Reproductive Health Commodity Security (GPRHCS) in 2008-09. The Global Programme will support up to 40 countries to access high quality and affordable essential drugs, contraceptives, and equipment for voluntary family planning services, HIV/STI prevention and maternal health services. The UK will be the largest donor to UNFPA’s Global Programme with up to £100 million over five years.
It is not possible to provide an exact figure of DFID’s funding to family planning at country level. This is because DFID has a number of funding channels for country programmes including budgetary support for health systems, direct government budgetary support and multilateral funding which may have as a sub-component the provision of family planning commodities and services.