Multi-Donor Trust Funds & Joint Programmes

Governance

Multi-Donor Trust Funds | Joint Programmes | Strategies | Oversight

Multi-Donor Trust Funds (MDTFs) and Joint Programmes (JPs) are designed to respond to the realities of a specific country or global situations. While Participating UN Organizations operate under the governance and accountability framework of their own organization, governance arrangements of MDTFs have common elements:

• A policy body, comprising of national authorities, the UN (and the World Bank where it is involved) and in some cases donors, which sets fund policy.
• A Steering Committee or similar entity that makes funding decisions, comprising national authorities, Participating UN Organizations, and in some cases donors. (MDTF Steering Committee Generic Terms of Reference).
• A body that reviews programmes/projects submitted for funding, either using the capacities of Participating UN Organizations grouped by sector or thematic cluster (e.g. employment, education, health, agriculture etc) or by establishing a stand-alone Steering Committee Support Office that will service the above two entities.

Further information on specific governance arrangements for individual MDTFs and JPs can be found under each MDTF/JP.