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Purpose of the Tracker

Multilateral funding faces significant uncertainty. As ODA falls (by 23% in 2025), the need for timely, reliable data has never been greater – yet official OECD data confirming the impact on multilateral funding in 2025 will not be available until late 2026. This reporting lag leaves decision-makers without the comparable, up-to-date information they need to respond effectively, at precisely the moment when timely advocacy is most critical to protecting both the quantity and quality of multilateral ODA.

The Multilateral Funding Tracker addresses this gap. Drawing on all available official sources – OECD data, multilateral reporting, donor budgets, and expert analysis – it brings together the most comprehensive picture possible of multilateral funding today and in the years ahead.

Annual figures are particularly important in this context. High-profile pledges are often made at replenishment events and conferences without binding agreements, meaning that a simple overview of pledges may obscure facts critical to advocates – including pledge fulfilment rates, timespans, and conditions that enhance or detract from funding effectiveness. Tracking funding flows annually provides advocates with critical insight into the reality of multilateral funding and a clearer sense of where and when advocacy is most needed.

Coverage

The Tracker covers funding provided by the 18 largest OECD DAC donor governments – Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the EU institutions, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US – to the following 17 multilateral organizations:

• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
• Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
• Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• World Bank International Development Association (IDA)
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
• World Bank IMF Resilience and Sustainability Trust
• African Development Fund (AfDF)
• Asian Development Fund (ADF)
• United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• Green Climate Fund (GCF)

While not exhaustive, the Tracker aims to cover a broad range of multilaterals working on issues featured on the Donor Tracker, namely global health, climate, agriculture, education, and gender equality. We cover 7 of the top 10 multilateral recipients of DAC members' multilateral ODA, with the remaining 10 organizations among the top 50 (according to OECD-listed multilaterals), totaling approximately a third of all multilateral ODA.

Data sources and certainty

The figures in the Tracker represent our best estimate of current and near-term multilateral funding flows. Funding beyond 2024 draws on partial, non-OECD data and may not fully reflect actual funding levels or relative proportions.

Certainty and availability of data vary considerably across sources. This work defines certainty as the degree to which a source provides verified and standardised evidence of financial commitments or transfers:

• High certainty – confirmed records of actual disbursements with detailed breakdowns
• Medium certainty – planned allocations subject to change
• Low certainty – informal or preliminary signals not yet formalised through official reporting mechanisms

The baseline analysis draws on four categories of source:

• OECD data provide high-certainty evidence of actual fund transfers, with significant detail on purpose and price levels. However, multilateral disbursement data carry a lag of approximately two years and are reported without the broader context of multi-year donor pledges. Donors may also elect not to report to the OECD, creating gaps that other sources may help fill.
• Annual pledges and contributions reported by multilaterals – sourced from reports, conferences, and pledging events – are less systematic and less granular than OECD data, but often cover a wider range of years and provide useful insight into pledge fulfilment rates and donor tendencies.
• Budget allocations reported by donors reflect medium-certainty, short-term plans to fulfill pledges. Detail varies, with many donors reporting multilateral funding as aggregated budget lines and operating on differing budget cycles.
• Individual announcements – including press conferences, informal agreements, and government statements – are unsystematic and low certainty. They are used when no other data are available to form an initial assessment of future funding trends.
  

The information is organized into a structured dataset based on availability. comprehensiveness, and certainty, and used to calculate approximate pledge distributions for years where data are not yet available.

The Tracker draws on publicly available data and reporting, which, depending on the source, may not provide a comprehensive overview of all funding flows, pledges, or donors. Information on data sources is available in the Methodology Note.

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Read the Methodology Note for more information.