Reports and finances

Financial independence and accountability

Each year our audited combined Financial Statements (International Financial Report/IFR) provide a global overview of MSF's work. Our International Activity Report (IAR) gives details on our activities and expenditure in each country and reflects on the major challenges we faced over the year. Access our International Financial Reports and our International Activity Reports and learn more about our funding policy, where our money comes from and how your donations are used.

Where our funding comes from

In 2020, more than 7 million individual donors and private institutions (private companies and foundations) provided 97.2 per cent of the €1.9 billion raised.

Our funding relies largely on individuals donating small amounts. This helps to ensure our operational independence and flexibility to respond at a moment's notice to the most urgent crises, including those which are under-reported or neglected.

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Cholera vaccination in Kyangwali

Our funding policy

Internationally, government funding represents less than two per cent of the total funds raised. Since 2016, we refuse to take funds from the European Union, its Member States and Norway, in opposition to their damaging deterrence policies on migration and their intensifying attempts to push people away from European shores.

Moreover, we don't accept contributions from companies and industries whose core activities may be in direct conflict with, or limit our ability to provide medical humanitarian work.

Hence, we don't accept money from:

  • pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies;
  • extraction industries (such as oil, natural gas, gold, or diamonds);
  • tobacco companies; and
  • arms manufacturers.
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How your donations are spent

Financial control and transparency

Your donations pay for millions of consultations, surgeries, treatments and vaccinations every year.

We are a non-profit organisation and 80.5% of our financial resources are allocated to fulfilling our social mission: 64.5% to our humanitarian programmes, 12% to support our projects and programmes, and 4% to awareness-raising, the Access Campaign, and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). The rest is spent on general management and fundraising costs. We also maintain reserves that allow us to respond immediately to a crisis without having to wait for an appeal. The use of MSF funds is tightly controlled and the audited financial reports are publicly available.

*figures from 2020 International Financial Report

International Financial Report

Every year we publish our audited combined Financial Statements. These combined accounts are a means of transparency and accountability, providing a global overview of MSF's work.

The International Financial report represents an aggregation of the Financial Statements of the 23 sections, 9 branch offices, 9 satellite organisations and MSF International. The 2020 International Financial Report is subject to approval by MSF's International General Assembly on 25 June 2021.

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*Figures from 2020 International Financial Report
Sea Watch 4 - Rotation01 - Life On Deck

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2020

25 May 2021

Annual Report

Djibo, Watertrucking activities

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2019

10 Jun 2020

Annual Report

Pediatric services in Zahle hospital, Bekaa Valley

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2018

28 May 2019

Annual Report

Chiradzulu: HIV care for adolescents

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2017

30 May 2018

Annual Report

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2016

22 Jun 2017

Annual Report

Bria vaccination suite

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2015

20 Jun 2016

Annual Report

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Annual Report

International Financial Report 2014

30 Jun 2014

Annual Report

IWD

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2013

30 May 2014

Annual Report

Timbuktu, Mali 2013

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2012

5 Jul 2013

Annual Report

Ethiopia, Somali Crisis, Liben region, December 2012

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2011

30 May 2012

Annual Report

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2010

28 May 2011

Annual Report

Ondoy Typhon , Angono, novembre 2009.

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2009

30 May 2010

Annual Report

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2008

30 May 2009

Annual Report

Malaria in Mali, November 2007

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2007

30 May 2008

Annual Report

Earthquake in Pakistan - October 2006

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2006

30 May 2007

Annual Report

CRENIs and ambulatory feeding center

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2005

30 May 2006

Annual Report

Annual Report

International Financial Report 2004

30 May 2005

Annual Report

International Activity Report

Each year, the International Activity Report provides a recap of our field work. The report gives details on our activities in each country, provides global financial and operational information, and reflects on the major challenges we faced over the year.

View 2020 Activity Report

9,904,200

9,904,2

outpatient consultations

1,008,500

1,008,5

vaccinations against measles in response to an outbreak

877,300

877,3

Patients admitted

*Figures from International Activity Report 2020

View 2020 Activity Report

MSF care center for COVID-19 in Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2020

29 Jul 2021

Subhan calms his daughter Afia as she receives injection for cutaneous leishmaniasis lesion at the MSF treatment centre in Naseerullah Khan Babar Memorial hospital, Peshawar.

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2019

3 Jun 2020

Behind the Frontlines of Hodeidah

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2018

10 Jul 2019

Cholera intervention in South Kivu

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2017

24 Jul 2018

Bentiu POC

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2016

25 Jun 2017

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2015

7 Jul 2016

Annual Report

Ebola Treatment Centre in Kailahun, Sierra Leone

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2014

22 Jun 2015

Annual Report

Bangui airport (MSB4585)

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2013

22 Jun 2014

Annual Report

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2012

22 Jun 2013

Annual Report

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International Activity Report 2011

22 Jun 2012

Annual Report

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2010

22 Jun 2011

Annual Report

Annual Report

International Activity Report 2009

22 Jun 2010

Annual Report