From the Better World Campaign:

FY2011 Funding Overview
Tracking U.S. contributions to the UN and U.S. bilateral peacekeeping contributions

Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities Account (CIPA)

Last year, with bipartisan support Congress fully funded U.S. obligations to United Nations peacekeeping accounts.  We ask that you maintain this commitment in 2010.  Any cuts to the CIPA account could jeopardize the effectiveness of missions critical to U.S. national security interests, including Sudan and Haiti.

Sudan in 2010 faces a range of daunting challenges.  In the aftermath of April’s national elections and the contentious 2011 referendum in sight, conflict prevention is an urgent priority in southern Sudan.  The UN mission in South Sudan (UNMIS) has been working to minimize violence – by training over 1,500 police officers and disarming 18,000 former combatants – and needs continued support.  In Darfur, continuing humanitarian needs in that region makes full support for the UN mission there (UNAMID), which secures access for humanitarian assistance, critically important.   

With respect to Haiti, full funding for the UN peacekeeping force (MINUSTAH) in the FY11 CIPA account will ensure that timely and sufficient resources are available for the existing force and the additional personnel authorized to assist in the recovery efforts.  Currently, 12,000 MINUSTAH troops and police are working with the Haitian National Police and other partners to secure access for the delivery of humanitarian assistance. MINUSTAH, among others, is also providing security by conducting hundreds of daily patrols in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas.  With the onset of the hurricane season, the U.S. and UN have recognized that hundreds of thousands who need adequate shelter in settlement camps will not have it.  As a result, there may be unrest in the camps and a corresponding need for a heightened security presence by MINUSTAH.  

Contributions to International Organizations Account (CIO)

As a Member state, we have an obligation to ensure that these treaty organizations can continue to leverage U.S. taxpayer dollars and advance key U.S. foreign policy objectives, including monitoring and reporting on Iran and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions through the IAEA; promoting reconstruction, elections, and the rule of law in Iraq and Afghanistan through the UN; creating norms for international telecommunications through the ITU; tracking swine flu and working to create strategies to prevent a global human pandemic through the WHO.