Does the United States fund UNFPA?
The United States was one of the founders of UNFPA and continues to sit on the 36-member Executive Board that approves its programmes. In UNFPA’s early years, the United States contributed as much as half of the Fund’s budget. Over the last two decades, US funding has been intermittent. Funds appropriated by the United States Congress from 2002 – 2008 — some $34 million annually — were withheld by the administration. In January 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that funding would be restored.
