## (2) Contributions to Multilateral institutions (Contributions, Subscriptions, and donations of which are a part of ODA)

(Unit: ¥ million)

Ministry or Agency	Project name (budget (¥ million))	Project Outlines
Financial Services Agency	Contributions of ODA to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, etc. (76)	Contributions toward funds necessary for technical assistance projects for emerging market countries undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, and to promote establishment and implementation of programs.
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications	Voluntary and Assessed Contributions (202)	Contributions to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Assessed Contributions to the United Nations (UN) (2,481)	The UN engages in activities which aim to achieve international cooperation in areas such as maintaining world peace and international security, and solving global issues that have economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian characteristics.
Assessed Contributions to the Trust Fund for Human Security (Contributions to the UN) (1,824)	Assist, through the fund established by the UN, UN-affiliated international organizations' projects that address issues threatening human survival, livelihood, and dignity in various ways from the standpoint of human security that focuses on individuals. Examples of issues which the international community currently face are poverty, environmental destruction, conflict, mines, refugee issues, drugs, HIV/AIDS, etc.,
Assessed Contributions to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (5,251)	The FAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations established with the aim of improving the global food problem, which initiates gathering of fundamental data, investigative research, providing policy advice to nations, and technical cooperation projects worldwide.
Assessed Contributions to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (1,707)	UNESCO is a specialized agency of the United Nations established to contribute to worldwide peace and security by promoting international collaboration among citizens through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
Assessed Contributions to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (2,683)	UNIDO is an organization that aims to promote and accelerate industrial development in developing countries, making adjustments to the activities of the UN in that field, while also initiating related operations and various technical cooperation projects.
Contributions to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) (764)	WFP strives to eradicate hunger and poverty by working primarily for economic and social development through food aid and emergency assistance toward victims, refugees, and internally displaced persons, etc., resulting from natural and man-made disasters.
Contributions to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (1,822)	UNICEF provides child-related long-term aid such as improvements in nutrition, drinking water supplies, mother-child welfare, education, etc., and short-term emergency aid related to natural disasters and conflicts, with a focus on healthcare. Aid recipient countries extend region-wide to almost all developing countries, and are not limited to UN member countries.
Assessed Contributions to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (5,652)	The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees provides protection and assistance to refugees, and aims to permanently resolve refugee issues by promoting voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country, as well as providing protection and relief in both legal and material aspects in emergency situations. In addition, the UNHCR provides assistance to internally displaced persons.
Contributions to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (3,465)	UNFPA assists in providing funds, etc., for family planning in developing countries, reproductive health, and population-related activities such as a national census. In terms of regions, funding is distributed with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region, which accounts for 60% of the world's population, as well as the African region, which is suffering from the effects of rapid population increase.
Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) (322)	UNRWA provides services to Palestinian refugees in education, medical and healthcare relief (including food aid, assistance in improvement of housing, etc.), welfare (conducting foster programs, operating public community halls, etc.), and assisting small-scale financial and entrepreneurship activities, through voluntary contributions provided by various governments and multilateral institutions.
Contributions to environmental issues (5,059)	Environment-related international organizations internal and external to the UN—the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) being a prime example—and environment-related treaties conduct and assist various projects which deal with the earth environment such as monitoring, investigation, technical assistance, enactment of treaties and promotion of abidance.
Contributions to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (8,767)	As the central organization in the field of development in the UN system, UNDP assists the sustainable development of developing countries in a multitude of ways, by focusing activities in the four areas of democratic governance, reduction of poverty, crisis prevention and recovery, and energy and environment. Aside from contributions to the core fund, Japan assists in moving forward projects in developing countries by establishing specialized foundations that are in line with their particular purpose in each field.