Here's how much India has pledged to contribute to United Nations

India has pledged to contribute USD 13.5 million for various operational activities of development across UN ncies for year 2020. Counsellor at India's Permanent Mission to UN Anjani Kumar anunced India's pledges at UN General Assembly Pledging Conference for Development Activities. Kumar said India's pledges of contributions for operational activities of development for year 2020 is to tune of USD 13.5 million, in line with country's long-standing trition of supporting development activities across UN system.

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Kumar outlined India's contribution to various UN ncies 

Outlining contributions to various UN ncies, Kumar said on Wednesday that India will contribute USD 5 million to UN Relief and Works ncy for Palestine Refugees in Near East, USD 4.5 million to UN Development Programme. World Food Programme will get USD 1.92 million, USD 900,000 to UN Children's Fund, USD 500,000 to UN Population Fund, USD 200,000 dollars to UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Co-operation and USD 150,000 dollars to UN Commission on Human Settlements Programme.

India will also be contributing USD 100,000 each to UN Voluntary contribution for Financial and Technical Assistance for implementation of Universal Periodic Review, UN Environment Programme and UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Kumar ted that India would be undertaking furr commitments to or entities over course of time. "India has been a regular contributor to UN since its inception. India believes that UN should have necessary resources to finance its activities, in an appropriate and balanced manner," he said.

Kumar, however, pointed out that sustainable and predictable funding remains key challenge in achieving 2030 Development nda. He ded that Official Development Assistance ?as a percent of Gross National Income remains low; commitment to Least Developed Countries is far from being met by most of Development Assistance Committee members and financing for small island developing states and country programmable aid continues to decline.

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Kumar highlights India's leership towards development activities 

Around USD 50 billion are channelised every year through UN System, but around 65 per cent of se resources are earmarked and as a result, less than 35 per cent of resources are utilised for development and technical cooperation, he said. Highlighting India's leership towards development activities and initiatives at UN, Kumar said India, in association with UN Office for South-South Cooperation, established India-UN Development Partnership Fund in 2017 under which USD 150 million have been committed for development assistance over next dece for need-based developmental projects.

"In spirit of sustained and predictable funding for SDGs and South-South Cooperation, funds under India-UN development Partnership are n-earmarked," he said, ding that since its establishment, more than 35 member states from Africa, Latin America and Caribbean and, Asia and Pacific regions have partnered with India-UN Development Partnership Fund.

Kumar told pledging conference that India is also engaging with global South more than ever before and country's historic relations with Caribbean nations witnessed a new momentum with meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 14 leers of Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) group of countries on sidelines of high-level General Assembly session in September. Modi h anunced a 14 million dollar grant for community development projects in CARICOM and ar 150 million dollar Line of Credit for solar, renewable energy and climate-change-related projects.

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India has extended Lines of Credit to more than 60 developing countries

Taking forward India's close partnership with Pacific Islands Developing States (PSIDS), India-PSIDS Leers' Meeting was also held on sidelines of General Assembly and Modi h anunced allocation of 12 million dollars grant (one million dollars to each PSIDS) towards implementation of high impact developmental projects in an area of ir choice. In last dece, India has extended Lines of Credit of about USD 26 billion to more than 60 developing countries.

About 16 countries pledged a total of USD 516 million at 2019 United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, representing a considerable increase over 2018 which saw USD 425.69 million promised. Highlighting total contributions to United Nations development system, Zina Mounla, Chief of Operational Activities Policy Branch in Department of Ecomic and Social Affairs, said y amounted USD 33.6 billion in 2017, an increase of 13 per cent over 2016. upturn continued a longer-term trend that has seen contributions increase by 77 per cent over past 10 years.

Core contributions increased for second consecutive year, she said, totalling USD 6.9 billion in 2017, an increase of 3 per cent over 2016. At same time, share of core resources dropped to an all-time low of only 20.6 per cent of total funding due to rise in n-core funding, which has doubled over past dece.

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