From the analysis of spending in 2024
In 2024, for the first time since the Tracking What Counts (TWC) report analyses data, European donors decreased support to both SRH/FP and SRHR. The decline is largely explained by payments timing and the challenges to account for multi-year disbursements when focusing on annual expenditures. Lower multilateral core spending also contributed to the overall decline.
But most alarmingly, for the first time in nine years, the report shows that the number of countries decreasing SRH/FP funds is higher than those increasing it. And in the case of SRHR, as many European donors are cutting funding as those increasing it. Furthermore, SRH/FP and SRHR funding still account for a marginal fraction of European donors’ ODA.
From the analysis of spending in 2023
In 2023, European donors reduced their spending on SRHR (specifically family planning). In addition, 14 European donors (13 countries and the EU) reduced their support to UNFPA, the UN Population Fund. But this does not mean there are no positive signs. There are also two more donors that spent more on SRHR than in 2022.
From the analysis of spending in 2022
The analysis shows how some European countries have paradoxically been the largest recipients of their own development aid, redirecting this budget to pay for the hosting of Ukrainian refugees.