Multi-Donor Trust Funds & Joint Programmes

Overview

Multi-Donor Trust Funds | Joint Programmes | UNDP MDTF Office

In the context of growing efforts of the UN system towards enhanced coherence and efficiency at the country level and increasing joint UN activities, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is often called upon to play the role of Administrative Agent for Multi-Donor Trust Funds (MDTFs) and Joint Programmes (JPs) established by the UN system, national authorities and donors fund management mechanism.

The increasing use of MDTFs and JPs is a direct application of the aid effectiveness agenda and UN reform initiatives, and the need to provide flexible, coordinated and predictable funding to support the achievement of national priorities. In their governance structure and operations, MDTFs and JPs are consistent with the Paris Declaration, including national ownership, alignment with national priorities, harmonization and coordination.

MDTFs and JPs usually use the pass-through fund management modality. Under this arrangement, Participating UN Organizations appoint an Administrative Agent (AA) through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as their administrative interface with donors. The AA subsequently signs a Standard Administrative Arrangement (formerly known as a Letter of Agreement (LOA)) with donors, and receives and administers donor-funds and transfers to Participating UN Organizations in accordance with the MOU and SAA. Participating UN Organizations assume full programmatic and financial accountability for the funds received from the AA, operating under their own individual financial regulations and rules.

When UNDP is selected as the AA, the accountability for UNDP’s function as AA in MDTFs and JPs using pass-through arrangements has been delegated to the Executive Coordinator of the MDTF Office, reporting to the Assistant Administrator and Director of the Partnerships Bureau, in accordance with the policy governing “UNDP’s Accountability when acting as Administrative Agent in MDTFs and/or UN Joint Programmes using the pass-through fund management modality."

For information about UNDP’s dual role in multi-donor trust funds and joint programmes, click here.

UNDP-administered MDTFs and JPs as of 30 April 2008
MDTFs	Pledges (USD)	Commitments (USD)	Deposits (USD)	Transfers to UN Orgs (USD)
Darfur Community Peace and Stability Fund	42,642,091	10,472,909	2,504,450	-
Democratic Republic of the Congo Pooled Fund	-	295,071,670	278,264,947	191,286,355
Lebanon Recovery Fund	15,576,324	30,366,496	30,366,496	24,549,901
One UN Pilot Funds:
- Albania One UN Coherence Fund	-	3,366,639	3,366,639	-
- Mozambique One UN Fund	-	9,843,489	9,843,489	-
- Rwanda One UN Fund	-	20,572,079	13,681,542	-
- Tanzania One UN Fund	9,940,358	38,339,105	30,748,487	18,309,546
- Uruguay One UN Coherence Fund	-	4,430,771	4,430,771	-
- Viet Nam One Plan Fund	4,200,000	34,473,791	29,113,791	17,139,190
Peacebuilding Fund	19,290,680	248,052,084	226,748,875	47,231,927
Sudan Common Humanitarian Fund	-	458,847,829	442,718,797	279,450,178
UNDG Iraq Trust Fund	-	1,337,723,953	1,311,082,356	1,111,124,499
UNDP/Spain MDG Achievement Fund	-	600,000,000	-	4,020,106
UN Central Fund for Influenza Action	-	39,018,886	15,268,886	8,721,422
UN Peace Fund for Nepal	-	9,506,902	9,506,902	5,977,440
UN Trust Fund for Human Security (JPs)	3,610,735	15,830,989	7,581,304	7,490,808
Total	95,260,188	3,155,917,592	2,415,227,732	1,715,301,372

- Pledges: A pledge is an indication of intent to contribute funds.
- Commitments: Contribution as per signed Letter of Agreement/Standard Administrative Arrangement.
- Table does not include country-level Joint Programmes