Sweden and the Netherlands today became the first resource partners to provide funds to FAO's new multipartner programme, a direct follow up to FAO reform. The voluntary contributions agreed upon, to be used by 2013, amount to a total of roughly $26 million. 

The new FAO Multipartner Programme Support Mechanism (FMM) has been developed to enable FAO's resource partners to allocate their contributions in direct support of the agency's Programme of Work and Budget.