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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.
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UNDG JOINT FUNDING APPROACHESTrends and Progress UNDG – Donor Meeting[New York – 11 February 2012]
Annual Transfers to UN organizations Source: MPTF Office, as of 31 December 2012
Programming priorities should drive the selection of a funding mechanism(s). Programme Drives Funding Country Analysis Decision Point
Joint Funding Mechanisms • Joint Programmes – 3 ways to manage • Pooled Fund (Managing Agent) • Pass-Through Fund (Administrative Agent • Parallel Fund Management • 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 ------------------ Secretariat Donors Task Teams/ Programme Groups Administrative Agent (1%) Participating UN Organizations (7%) Implementing Partners
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 20 COUNTRIES WITH ONE UN FUNDS 20 PARTICIPATING UN ORGANIZATIONS 25 CONTRIBUTING PARTNERS (DONORS) $702 MILLION FUNDS RECEIVED $628 MILLION FUNDS TRANSFERRED • A country-level MDTF • Resource mobilisation for UNDAF funding gap • Uses standard legal documents (MOU and SAA) • Government & UN leadership (co-chairing of Steering Comm.) • One Programme report or One UN Fund report
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