WHO FUNDING

About:

• A private foundation becoming the biggest funder, and hence the biggest influence, on a United Nations agency would be a first.
  
  
• In fact, though the WHO is meant to be a body accountable to its members countries, among the top 10 donors to the organisation only four are member countries and one is the European Commission. The rest are all non-state actors or philanthropies.
  
  
• When the WHO was constituted, its constitution stipulated that it should primarily be financed through regular contributions from member countries, called "assessed contributions", relative to the country’s wealth and population.