Working to fulfil its mandate and help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, FAO is funded in part by its regular budget and increasingly through voluntary contributions. Those extra-budgetary contributions come from FAO Member Countries, multilateral organizations, international financing institutions, the private sector and other sources.

Globally and in the Africa region, voluntary contributions constitute the primary source of funding – accounting for nearly two-thirds of total funding. Voluntary Contributions from FAO’s resource partners may be earmarked for a particular thematic area, region or programme, or may come as non-earmarked contributions to be applied wherever the need is greatest. 

During the Programme of Work and Budget (PWB) Biennium 2022-2023, FAO leveraged for the African region a total of US$ 1.3 billion (total of the projects approved) in voluntary contributions from almost 70 resource partners.