Working to fulfil its mandate and help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, FAO is funded in part by its regular budget and increasingly through voluntary contributions. Those extra-budgetary contributions come from FAO Member Countries, multilateral organizations, international financing institutions, the private sector, and other sources.
Total resources mobilized by FAO for Europe and Central Asia in 2024 was USD 65.4 million. The amount was almost the same as the previous year and above the annual average of the resources mobilized in the region in previous years, except for 2022. In 2024, 47 percent of the amount was allocated for development projects, with the rest slated for emergency activities.
In 2024, the five major resource partners of FAO in Europe and Central Asia were the United States of America with USD 10.2 million, followed by Canada with USD 7.4 million, the UNDP Administered Donor Joint Trust Fund (UNJ) with USD 7.1 million, France with USD 6.0 million, and Türkiye with 5.1 million.
Major resource partners in 2024
| United States of America | 15% |
| Canada | 11% |
| UNDP Administered Donor Joint Trust Fund | 10% |
| France | 9% |
| Türkiye | 7% |
| Others | 48% |
These new projects were provided mainly to Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Albania, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan.
South–South cooperation
More than ten countries in the region including Central Asia, Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Western Balkans have expressed their needs for knowledge sharing and capacity building with other member states having similar development experiences.
At the moment, Chile, China, Hungary, Russian Federation, and Türkiye, as well as triangular partners including Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, are providing solutions to the region for agricultural development and food security.
FAO and Türkiye signed a South–South cooperation agreement in 2021 regarding the deployment of Turkish experts under the FAO–Türkiye Partnership Programme to provide technical expertise and knowledge to Central Asian countries and Azerbaijan and to help develop solutions for common development issues in the food and agriculture sector.