OCHA Annual Report 2023 Section 2

Funding

To implement its mandate, OCHA relies heavily on voluntary contributions, mostly from Governments. Only a small percentage of OCHA’s programme budget is funded from the UN Regular Budget. CERF and the CBPFs are funded entirely by voluntary contributions.

Programme budget

In 2023, 92 per cent of OCHA’s programme activities were funded by voluntary contributions. The remaining 8 per cent came from the UN Regular Budget, which is paid from UN Member States’ assessed contributions. OCHA’s extrabudgetary (XB) programme budget was $314.1 million at the start of 2023. The budget increased by 0.3 per cent during 2023, closing the year at $314.9 million. The OCHA Sudan ofce had the most signifcant budget increase. The cost plans of OCHA ofces in Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen also increased, but as OCHA made substantial eforts to contain the costs of its operations, these were all compensated by decreases in other country ofces. At the year’s end, the feld operations budget represented 76 per cent of total XB requirements, which was the same percentage as the previous year.