In preparation for the 68th World Health Assembly, to be convened in Geneva from 18 May 2015 to 26 May 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) prepared a document (A68/INF./1, 1 May 2015), entitled “Annex to the Financial Report for the year ended 31 December 2014, Voluntary contributions by fund and by contributor). According to WHO’s Financial Report for 2014, voluntary contributions ($2.002 billion USD) constituted around 80% of WHO’s program budget while core assessments ($492 million USD) constituted around 19.7% of WHO”s program budget in 2014.
The WHO document on voluntary contributions (A68/INF./1) disaggregates all voluntary contributions to WHO by individual donor including Member States and private donors noting that,
Voluntary contributions — core includes two types of revenue: funds received to support the Programme budget as a whole, considered fully or highly flexible; and funds that are earmarked for purposes within the Programme budget, considered designated, or medium flexible. Fully flexible funds and highly flexible funds, earmarked only at the level of the strategic objective, are recorded in the Core Voluntary Contributions Account. Designated funds, earmarked at the level of Organization wide expected result, disease, or programme, are not as tightly specified for detailed activity or expenditure line reporting as voluntary contributions — specified, yet are still earmarked rather than highly flexible so are categorized as voluntary contributions — core.
Here is a non-exhaustive list detailing the sources of voluntary contributions to WHO and the size of their respective donations in 2014.
United States of America: $300,671,805
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: $256,521,237
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: $155,129,268
GAVI Alliance: $127,754,707
Canada: $79,796,770
Rotary International: $66,516,459
European Commission: $58 639 262
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): $56,458,643
Norway: $49,808,970
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA): $53,307,400
Australia: $49,795,934
Sweden: $48,507,127
Germany: $47,517,610
United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF): $43,130,386
African Development Bank: $31,460,986
Japan: $30,714,627
United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP): $27,109,264
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM): $25,055,335
Netherlands: $24,636,354
National Philanthropic Trust (NPT): $22,700,000
Republic of Korea: $20,432,924
Liberia: $18,743,195
Switzerland: $18,369,782
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS): $18,275,155
Kuwait: $17,971,430
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): $17,564,965
Pakistan: $17,275,278
Finland: $14,886,077
France: $12,419,217
Belgium: $12,017,663
UNITAID – International Drug Purchase Facility: $11,549,069
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): $11,429,874
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): $10,716,347
Luxembourg: $10,041,042
Denmark: $9,534,514
Russia: $8,378,255
The Transplantation Society: $8,000,000
Merck Sharpe and Dohme-Chibret: $7,611,575
Greece: $7,535,081
China: $7,040,000
Carter Foundation: $6,700,000
United Arab Emirate: $6,200,000
Hoffmann-La Roche and Co Ltd: $6,158,153
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK): $6,158,153
Sanofi Pasteur: $5,898,877
World Lung Foundation: $5,450,151
Brazil: $5,415,057
Saudi Arabia: $5,254,250
Wellcome Trust: $5,093,419
Spain: $4,917,518
Sanofi Espoir Foundation: $4,435,078
Turkey: $3,537,395
Kobe Group (Hyogo Prefecture, Kobe City, Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Kobe Steel Ltd): $3,000,000
Italy: $3,822,283
Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain: $3,872,351
New Zealand: $3,574,506
Sierra Leone: $2,850,000
Ireland: $2,798,467
India: $2,673,804
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS): $2,557,966
World Bank: $2,535,000
Guinea: $2,344,110
Kazakhstan: $2,337,114
Korean Foundation for International Health Care (KFIH) – Dr. Lee Jong-Wook Memorial Fund: $2,223,161
Opec Fund for International Development: $1,793,506
Flemish Government, Belgium: $1,681,868
Guinea Bissau: $1 617 902
World Meteorological Organization (WMO): $1,537,392
Bangladesh: $1,146,351
Equatorial Guinea: $3,003,510
Monaco: $1,257,203
Mexico: $1,010,000
Rockefeller Foundation: $883,933
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC): $872,288
Scottish Government (United Kingdom): $844,595
Bristol-Myers Squibb: $765,000
Ukraine: $682,023
Thailand: $623,770
Bayer AG: $444,048
South Africa: $418,317
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: $350 000
Johns Hopkins University: $550,000
Ecuador: $325,000
UBS Optimus Foundation: $232,630
Singapore: $250,000
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: $192,100
Syngenta Crop Protection AG: $150,000
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH): $130,000
Chile: $30,000
Haiti: $25,000
Honduras: $25,000
Health Action International (HAI): $17,594