Overview
 The United Nations Development Group Iraq Trust Fund (UNDG ITF) was established in 2004 as one of two trust funds of the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI). The IRFFI was designed in close consultation with the Iraqi authorizes and donorsby the World Bank and the United Nations in response to international requests to create a mechanism to enable donors to channel their resources and coordinate their support for reconstruction and development activities in Iraq. A total of 25 donors have signed a Letter of Agreement with the UNDP Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) Office, as Administrative Agent of the UNDG ITF.
 The UNDG ITF is the first MDTF to be administered by the United Nations in joint partnership with the World Bank, and to provide donors with a single channel for funding thereby reducing donors’ transaction costs. It was also the first time that the UNDG organizations adopted common planning, funding, coordinated implementation and reporting arrangements through a thematic ‘cluster’ framework.
The UNDG ITF is administered by the UNDP MDTF Office as Administrative Agent on behalf of the Participating UN Organizations. This arrangement has been formalized through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Participating UN Organization and the UNDP MDTF Office, as the Administrative Agent. A total of 21 Participating UN Organization’s have signed the MOU with the Administrative Agent, which sets out the duties and responsibilities of each Participating UN Organization, which assumes full programmatic and financial accountability for the funds disbursed to it.
 The IRFFI structure is designed to ensure that activities financed by the WB ITF and the UNDG ITF are aligned with the Government of Iraq’s priorities as outlined in the IRFFI Terms of Reference (TOR). The strategic documents that provide the scope and parameters for identifying and formulating projects include the Iraq National Development Strategy (NDS), International Compact with Iraq (ICI), Iraq Millennium Development Goals (IMDGs), and UN Security Council Resolutions 1546 and 1770 (2007) and UN Assistance Strategy for Iraq.
Further information about the IRFFI and the UNDG ITF, including updated narrative and financial reports and a complete list of projects support by the UNDG ITF, are available on IRFFI main website at: www.irffi.org
For specific queries related to the UNDG ITF, please go to contacts.
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