Integrated Framework Trust Fund (IFTF)

The Integrated Framework Trust Fund (IFTF) was established under the financial rules and regulations of the UNDP for the receipt, administration and disbursement of funds and for mobilizing additional resources needed to enhance the programme activities of the Integrated Framework.

Since its creation in February 2001, the IFTF has served as a central point for the deposit of contributions to the IF. Contributions have been pledged by both bilateral and multilateral donors towards two finance windows operating simultaneously: Window I, a general fund, for contributions for diagnostic studies and strengthening capacities of IF national structures; and Window II for contributions allocated to specific and clearly identifiable programmes for trade capacity building. 

The IFTF was closed for new commitments effective 31 May 2008. 

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Enhanced Integrated Framework Trust Fund (EIFTF)

An evaluation of the IF in 2003/4 recommended the enhancement of the IF. Among one aspect of this enhancement was the need to provide increased, predictable and additional funding on a multi-year basis.

A Task Force set up by the IF Steering Committee undertook studies to address the possibilities of enhancing the IF and came up with recommendations.  Following this, a Transition Team in the form of the IF interim Board undertook working out the details of the enhancement recommendations, among them the provision for the establishment of a Trust Fund that would provide funding on a multi-year basis.

This enhancement is now foremost taken care of through the set-up of the Enhanced IF Trust Fund (EIFTF), funded by multilateral, bilateral and/or regional donors.  It is aimed at providing funding for capacity building, in-country IF management structures and DTIS and DTIS updates, as well as bridge-funding to jump-start project-related activities in beneficiary countries.

Pledges for contributions to the EIFTF were mainly made at the High-Level Donor Pledging Conference in Stockholm in September 2007.  During this Conference, a total of US$170 million (or 75% of the budget for the first five years of the Enhanced IF) has been raised.

The multilateral EIFTF is being managed under the financial rules and regulations of UNOPS as its Trust Fund Manager.

As of March 2009, the EIFTF is about to enter its fully operational phase. Beneficiary countries can now apply to obtain funds to support them in domestic capacity building (Tier I) and some (but not all) activities identified in the Action Matrices (Tier II).  It is expected that those activities not financed by the EIFTF will need to be funded through bilateral and/or regional donors.

Please go to Status for information on financial contributions to the EIFTF to date.

Page last updated on 19 March 2009