UNDG JOINT FUNDING APPROACHES
Trends and Progress
UNDG – Donor Meeting
[New York – 11 February 2012]
Funding for UN Operational Activities
Increasing the Quality of Non-Core…
Annual Transfers to UN organizations
Source: MPTF Office, as of 31 December 2012
MDTF Contributions (>200,000,000
Programming
priorities should drive
the selection of a
funding
mechanism(s).
Programme Drives Funding
Country
Analysis
Joint
Assessment
Joint
Strategic
Planning
Joint
Monitoring &
Evaluation
Decision
Point
Common
Budgetary
Framework
Implementation
Joint
Resource
Mobilization
Joint Funding Mechanisms
1. Joint Programmes – 3 ways to manage
• Pooled Fund (Managing Agent)
• Pass-Through Fund (Administrative Agent
• Parallel Fund Management
2. Multi-Donor Trust Funds (Admin. Agent)
• Country-level (incl. DAO/One UN Funds)
• Global-level
Multi-Donor Trust Funds
• Multi-agency, uses the pass-through mechanism
• Used in humanitarian, recover / transition and development
contexts
• Can be used to finance individual agency projects and joint
programmes
• Encourages multi-year un-earmarked contributions
• Supports a strategic UN programme, such as:
- funding gaps in UNDAFs
- global / country level thematic objective
MDTF Architecture
Steering Committee
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Task
Teams/
Program
me
Groups
Secretariat
Donors
Administrative
Agent (1%)
Participating UN
Organizations (7%)
Implementing
Partners
Trends in deposits for MDTFs
Type of MDTF
20042008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Total
20042012
Humanitarian
28%
28%
38%
45%
55%
35%
Transition
58%
13%
17%
30%
20%
38%
Development
14%
59%
45%
25%
25%
27%
5%
14%
28%
21%
15%
12%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
One Funds
Total
10
Types of MDTFs
 Global (thematic) MDTFs (12)
-
MDG Achievement Fund
-
UN Peacebuilding Fund
-
UN-REDD Programme Fund
-
Small global Funds (9)
 Country-level MDTFs (41)
-
Common Humanitarian Funds (5 countries)
-
Transition and Recovery Funds (11 countries)
-
One UN Funds (20 countries)
-
Others (2 countries)
One Funds
• A country-level MDTF
• Resource mobilisation for
UNDAF funding gap
• Uses standard legal documents
(MOU and SAA)
• Government & UN leadership (cochairing of Steering Comm.)
• One Programme report or One
UN Fund report
20 COUNTRIES WITH
ONE UN FUNDS
20 PARTICIPATING UN
ORGANIZATIONS
25 CONTRIBUTING
PARTNERS (DONORS)
$702 MILLION FUNDS
RECEIVED
$628 MILLION FUNDS
TRANSFERRED
Key challenges - MDTFs
Key Challenges
- Shift in focus of MDTF funding from development /
transition to humanitarian
- Few multi-year commitments (< 10 %), affecting
predictability of funding
- Capitalisation of many MDTFs is below expectations,
 need to look at thresholds
- Difficulties of many One Funds to mobilise resources
at country level
- Flexibility of use of funding for UN Agencies