The United Kingdom
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Partnership overview
The UK’s support for children worldwide focuses on the most vulnerable, including girls, children with disabilities, migrant and displaced children, and children caught in conflict.
In 2025, the UK was the fifth largest public contributor to UNICEF, providing a total of US$418 million in critical support for global programming. The UK Government remained a prime strategic and reliable humanitarian partner to UNICEF, offering US$21 million towards Core Resources – flexible funding to be deployed wherever and whenever the need is greatest – and US$289 million to Other Resources (Emergency). This included US$9.5 million in global flexible humanitarian funding, which strengthened UNICEF’s humanitarian institutional capacity and readiness worldwide, alongside support for humanitarian operations in countries including Ethiopia, Yemen, the State of Palestine, Afghanistan and Sudan.
The UK also provided US$108 million of funding for Other Resources (Regular), bolstering UNICEF’s services for children across nutrition, health, education, WASH, child protection and social protection.
Despite a highly constrained UK aid budget and significant reductions in overall ODA spending, the UK remains one of UNICEF's most important government partners. Together, UNICEF and the UK continue to advance children's rights and well-being around the world.
2025 contributions to UNICEF
Core Resources: US$21 million
Other Resources (Regular): US$108 million
Other Resources (Emergency): US$289 million
Total: US$418 million