UNODC intensified its cooperation with major donors and emerging and national donors. 23 informal donor meetings were held on important issues such as policy, funding and operational priorities. Also, a fourth successive meeting was held with the emerging and national donors that focused on the implementation of the medium-term strategy, the UNODC budget for 2008-2009 and the funding situation. In 2008, the major donor group provided about 54 per cent of all voluntary contributions (2007: 72 %), the emerging and national donor group about 39 per cent (2006: 21%), while others accounted for about 7 per cent. Particularly noteworthy were significantly increased pledges from Brazil, Colombia, China, Germany, Greece, Czech Republic, India, Poland, Peru and USA. Key institutional support for general purpose funding came from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Turkey and the USA which, together, contributed about 91 percent of the un-earmarked funding. Brazil, Colombia and Mexico continued to provide significant cost-sharing for the local support budget. Equally important, some donor countries (Germany, France, Japan, Norway and Sweden) accelerated their general purpose contributions to sustain the core infrastructure of the Office.