Multi-Donor Trust Funds & Joint Programmes

Multi-Donor Trust Funds

Strategies | Governance | Oversight

A Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) is a funding instrument through which donors pool resources to support national priorities and facilitate UN agencies to work and deliver in close coordination and collaboration.

MDTFs can be important instruments for resource mobilization, donor coordination, policy dialogue and the provision of support for humanitarian, recovery, reconstruction and development activities.

MDTFs are particularly well-suited as a means of:

• improving predictable, coordinated and effective support to nationally owned humanitarian, recovery, reconstruction and development processes;
• strengthening resource efficiency and effectiveness through uniting and pooling donor contributions; and
• reducing time spent and costs associated with administrative requirements, reporting, financial transactions and ensuring coordination and information sharing.

MDTFs are individually designed to address and fit the realities and objectives of a specific country or global situation while sharing some core principles and common features including the service of an effective Administrative Agent that provides agreed services and facilitates the attainment of desired objectives.