For implementation of UNSDCF 2022–2026 in 2025, the 19 UN agencies in Albania delivered interventions worth USD 48.3 million (Figure 1), with core resources of USD 3.9 million (8%) and mobilized resources of USD 44.3 million (92%). The largest financial portfolio was that of Green Growth, Innovation and Climate Change, followed by, in decreasing order of portfolio size, Human Capital Development; Governance, Rule of Law and Human Rights; and Gender-Responsive Governance.
At the output level, delivery was largest for Output 2.2 Sustainable and resilient economic growth and transition, followed by 3.6 Migration and asylum and
1.2 Education (Figure 2).
UNDP remains the UN agency with the largest portfolio of funds delivered (31%; Figure 3) and activities implemented across all four strategic areas in 2025,
followed by UNOPS and UNICEF. The non-core budget in 2025 consisted of contributions to the Albania SDG Acceleration Fund (ASDG-AF) and bilateral contributions mobilized through agreements with individual UN agencies at the country, regional and global levels.
ASDG-AF has been instrumental in enhancing the strategic alignment and concerted UN efforts towards SDG acceleration. Both phase I and phase II Funds have played a crucial role since 2019, especially in supporting post-earthquake recovery initiatives in areas of education, social protection, gender, child protection, economic recovery and resilience, agriculture, DRR and community infrastructure, generating increased interest from partners as a cost-effective vehicle.
From 2007 to 2025, overall contributions from 16 partners to the Fund reached USD 81.28 million (Figure 4). By the end of 2025, three joint projects continued to be implemented with support from phase II of the Fund, ensuring strengthened UN coherence, coordination and collaboration.
The EU remains the strongest institutional partner of the UN system in Albania (Figure 5), while numerous other bilateral donors have supported the UN interventions with a total of USD 37.9 million.
The UN in Albania raised in addition USD 7.7 million of the UN’s core, pooled and thematic funds and USD 4 million from global vertical funds such as the Adaptation Fund, Green Climate Fund, and Global Environment Facility.
Four years into implementation of the UNSDCF, UNCT has significantly outperformed initial resource mobilization estimates. Of the projected USD 282 million
budget (funding gap of USD 117 million), USD 19.6 million in core resources have been secured (89% of the total estimated for 2022–2026) leaving a USD 2.4 million gap for the remaining period.
Non-core resources reached USD 281 million, more than doubling the estimated USD 134 million, with notable increases
under all four outcomes, particularly for Outcome 3: Governance and Outcome 4: Gender-Responsive Governance, which saw 3–4-fold growth. The progress reported above is attributed largely to increased contributions from key donors, including the EU, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Italy and the USA. With total, secured funding exceeding estimates by USD 147 million, the funding gap has been reduced to USD 26 million, positioning the UNCT to focus its resource mobilization efforts to closing the remaining shortfall over the final implementation year of the UNSDCF.