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Funding for UNICEF
UNICEF’s work is made possible by voluntary contributions from governments, international organizations, foundations, businesses, and, most importantly of all, people like you: individuals across the world motivated to help and save children. This broad support helps us uphold every child’s rights, especially the most vulnerable.
With children always at the heart of our work, we focus on delivering and measuring results. We collaborate closely with partners to design efficient funding models that ensure every euro makes a difference.
Types of UNICEF funding
Funding for UNICEF is organized by three categories:
- Core Resources for Results, also known as flexible funding. When you give to UNICEF, without tying a gift to a specific campaign, such as Ukraine or Sudan, it provides funding that is ready to be deployed wherever and whenever the need is greatest. This funding enables emergency response, but it also helps us strengthen systems, scale solutions and unlock innovation.
- Other Resources (regular). These contributions are for specific purposes, such as a particular country, geographic region, project, or any other category agreed upon by UNICEF and the donor. For example, it could be a donation specifically to Ethiopia, or to fund vaccinations. These are allocated for non-emergency programs and UNICEF’s strategic priorities
- Other Resources (emergency). These contributions go to particular emergency response requirements and forecasts, for example saving children in Gaza. Through collaboration with our partners, we mobilize resources to safeguard children worldwide, including those in the most remote and challenging locations.
Donate to children today — because you can make a difference
Flexible funding means UNICEF can help children like these siblings in Afghanistan – before conflicts, during and after.
Flexible funding
Flexible funding is UNICEF’s most important, most effective, and most valuable tool to help children worldwide and forms the bedrock of all our work. Flexible funding provides the foundational funding in all UNICEF country programmes, and funds long-term sustainable investments.
Flexible funding is the most equitable and sustainable way to help protect the lives and rights of children everywhere.