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- Humanitarian
- Peace and transition
- Development
- Climate and environment
- Multiple
The United Nations centre of expertise on pooled funding
The Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (MPTFO) provides fund design and administration services to UN entities, national governments, and other partners.
These integrated ‘Administrative Agent’ (AA) services are provided from fund inception to closure, with the MPTFO in an impartial and independent role, separate from implementing entities, ensuring proper fiduciary checks and balances.
The underlying premise of pooled funding is the recognition that some challenges cannot be overcome by individual action, and that sustainable development – and the SDGs – will only be achieved when we work together.
The MPTF Office carefully curates a fund portfolio that cover a broad range of thematic categories. From humanitarian, peace and transition to climate action or development, funds are used to implement initiatives that accelerate SDG progress, generating results on local, regional, global scales.
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From Crisis to Collective Action: The STFA Experience reflects on how the Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan (STFA) emerged after the August 2021 crisis to address basic human needs amid uncertainty.
In October 2025, France joined the group of contributing countries to the Elsie Initiative Fund for Uniformed Women in Peace Operations, including Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Republic of Korea, Denmark, and Finland. This takes the form of in-kind contribution through the provision of a Junior Professional Officer (JPO) to the Elsie Fund Secretariat. It marks France’s first contribution to the global initiative, promoting the meaningful participation of uniformed women in United Nations peace operations.
Photo: Four years of historic rains have submerged farmlands, ancestral homes and roads, turning the main IDP (Internally Displaced Person) camp in Bentiu into an island hemmed in by dykes. ©UNHCR / Andrew McConnell