Development Co-operation Profiles

World Diabetes Foundation

Introduction

The World Diabetes Foundation is a leading global funder of projects and programmes for diabetes prevention and care in low- and middle-income countries. The foundation was established in 2002 by Novo Nordisk A/S with the vision to alleviate human suffering related to diabetes among those in greatest need.

The World Diabetes Foundation supports sustainable, scalable and policy-based approaches, helping countries meet global targets for improved care of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases. The foundation has been active in more than 100 countries and has built partnerships with governments, civil society, the private sector, and international agencies. It is also engaged in regional and global advocacy.

Private development finance

The World Diabetes Foundation provided USD 10.6 million for development in 2022 through its grantmaking activities. Compared to 2021, this amount represents a decrease of 58.1% in real terms.

 

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Bilateral and multilateral allocations

In 2022, the World Diabetes Foundation channelled its development finance mostly through non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society (USD 8.4 million), universities, research institutes or think‑tanks (USD 1.3 million) and multilateral organisations (USD 1 million).

 

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Multilateral channels

In 2022, the World Diabetes Foundation provided USD 1 million to the multilateral system, representing 9.3% of its development finance, all of which was earmarked for specific countries, regions, themes or purposes.

 

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All these multilateral contributions were provided to the United Nations (UN) in support of the activities of UNITAR (USD 0.7 million) and the WHO (USD 0.3 million).

 

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Geographic and thematic focus

In 2022, the World Diabetes Foundation’s development finance was primarily focused on Africa and Asia (excluding the Middle East). USD 8.1 million was allocated to Africa and USD 1.6 million to Asia (excluding the Middle East), accounting respectively for 76.3% and 15% of gross development finance. A sum of USD 0.1 million (0.8%) was unspecified by region in 2022.

Figure. Bilateral private development finance by recipient country

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In 2022, 84.4% of gross development finance went to the top 10 recipients, most notably Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Cameroon and the Dominican Republic.

 

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Least developed countries (LDCs) received USD 4.8 million (44.9%) of the World Diabetes Foundation’s gross disbursements in 2022, followed by lower middle-income countries (44.3%), noting that USD 0.1 million (0.8%) was unallocated by income group.

 

Notes: LDC: least developed country; LIC: low-income country; LMIC: lower middle-income country; UMIC: upper middle-income country; MADCTs: more advanced developing countries and territories.

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Furthermore, the World Diabetes Foundation allocated USD 2.7 million of its development finance to land-locked developing countries in 2022, and USD 0.8 million to small island developing states (SIDS) in 2022, notably the Dominican Republic.

Fragile contexts

Support to fragile contexts reached USD 8 million in 2022, representing 75% of the World Diabetes Foundation’s development finance. Of this, extremely fragile contexts received a sum of USD 1.5 million.

 

Notes: HDP: humanitarian-development-peace. The chart represents only gross bilateral contributions that are allocated by country.

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Learn more about support to fragile contexts on the States of Fragility platform.

Sectors

In 2022, the World Diabetes Foundation’s allocated all its grants to social infrastructure and services and, more specifically, the health and population sector (control of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases).

 

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Sustainable Development Goals

In 2022, the World Diabetes Foundation primarily committed its contributions to good health and well-being (SDG 3) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.

 

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Additional resources

Official website: https://www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org

The methodological notes provide further details on the definitions and statistical methodologies applied, including core and earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations, the Sustainable Development Goal focus of private development finance, channels of delivery, unspecified/unallocated allocations, the gender equality policy marker, and the environment markers.