Funding (original) (raw)
UNDRR Funding
Donor partners continued to recognize the important role of UNDRR in preventing new, and reducing existing, disaster risk as well as managing residual risk.
In 2025, UNDRR received a total of US$49.4 million in financial contributions. Combined with contributions received in 2024, UNDRR received a total of US$107.4 million to implement the 2024-2025 Work Programme, which had an official funding requirement of US$135 million.
In-kind contributions, including Junior Professional Officers (JPOs), continue to play an essential role in bolstering UNDRR’s capacity. In 2025, eight JPOs were provided by Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, and the United States of America, contributing valuable expertise and supporting the successful delivery of UNDRR’s global initiatives.
While development and humanitarian needs continued to grow, 2025 marked the beginning of a challenging financial period for international development and humanitarian systems. UNDRR’s efforts to foster dialogue with its donors continue to be vital in strengthening partnerships and ensuring accountability. In 2025, the organization hosted multiple platforms for consultation, including the UNDRR Support Group in Geneva, the Group of Friends for Disaster Risk Reduction in New York, and bi-annual donor meetings, as well as during the 2025 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. To maintain financial stability and the ability to deliver on its mandate in an uncertain time, UNDRR also intensified its efforts to diversify the donor base through ongoing outreach to donors in emerging economies, trusts and foundations, global climate and environmental funds, and the private sector. Steps have also been taken to reduce costs and enhance partnerships with other United Nations system entities to enhance effectiveness and efficiency, in the spirit of the ongoing UN80 reforms.
Flexible or unearmarked funding
Flexible core funding remains essential for UNDRR’s ability to deliver on its mandate. This flexibility enables the Office to adapt to rapidly changing disaster risk landscapes, respond to requests for support from the most disaster-prone Member States, and remain agile in the face of emerging challenges. Given that 99.9% of UNDRR’s funding comes from voluntary contributions, this funding flexibility is critical to its operational success. In 2025, nine donors — China, Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sweden, and Switzerland — provided flexible core funding, contributing a total of US$14.4 million. This represented 29% of financial contributions to UNDRR in 2025.
Multi-year agreements, for both core funding and project funding, are a cornerstone of UNDRR’s financial strategy. They provide a predictable funding stream that enhances the organization’s ability to plan and implement disaster risk reduction efforts over the four-year period of UNDRR’s Strategic Framework and the two-year period of the Work Programme. In 2025, UNDRR signed five new multi-year agreements with China, Germany, Italy, the European Union, and the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure. These new agreements add to a portfolio of multi-year contributions from donors such as Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Climate Risk and Early Warning System initiative. While larger donors play an important role in UNDRR’s funding strategy, smaller contributions from a wide range of governments, international organizations, and private sector partners are also crucial in strengthening UNDRR’s capacity to achieve its objectives.
Donors
The top donors to UNDRR — Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, CREWS, European Union, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Republic of Korea, and United States of America — each contributed more than USD 2 million in 2025.
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| Donors | Earmarked | Unearmarked | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 2,692,918 | 3,435,560 | 6,128,477 |
| Germany | 5,664,665 | 5,664,665 | |
| Netherlands | 4,799,080 | 4,799,080 | |
| CREWS | 4,452,950 | 4,452,950 | |
| European Union | 4,266,445 | 4,266,445 | |
| Japan | 2,242,800 | 1,916,605 | 4,159,405 |
| Sweden | 3,574,711 | 3,574,711 | |
| Norway | 3,051,100 | 3,051,100 | |
| Italy * | 2,880,462 | 2,880,462 | |
| Republic of Korea | 1,992,794 | 600,000 | 2,592,794 |
| United States of America | 2,562,058 | 2,562,058 | |
| UNOPS | 1,422,036 | 1,422,036 | |
| Finland | 1,168,224 | 1,168,224 | |
| Australia | 696,919 | 696,919 | |
| China | 299,985 | 299,985 | |
| Luxembourg | 289,017 | 289,017 | |
| Migration Trust Fund | 215,400 | 215,400 | |
| Global Disability Fund | 200,000 | 200,000 | |
| Czech Republic | 190,949 | 190,949 | |
| CDRI | 149,989 | 149,989 | |
| Canada | 139,569 | 139,569 | |
| UNDP | 130,000 | 130,000 | |
| SDG joint fund | 124,804 | 124,804 | |
| United Kingdom | 104,668 | 104,668 | |
| Philippines | 15,000 | 50,000 | 65,000 |
| Portugal | 58,660 | 58,660 | |
| Kazakhstan | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
| SM Prime Holding | 11,300 | 11,300 | |
| Grand Total | 35,033,465 | 14,385,203 | 49,418,668 |
All values in USD.
* Contribution of EUR 1 million was received in 2026 but was intended for 2025.
2025 Donors by the numbers
5new multi-year contributions signed in 2025
8Junior Professional Officers provided
9 Countriesprovided full or partial unearmarked core support
UNDRR would like to thank all its donors, without whose generous contribution, the crucial work in accelerating global efforts in disaster risk reduction to ensure a more resilient and more sustainable future for all would not be possible.
Publications
Previous years
Information about previous years of donors is available in UNDRR annual reports.