The United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (MPTFO) is the center of expertise for UN pooled funding. Established in 2004, it is the only UN entity dedicated to the design and administration of multi-stakeholder pooled financing instruments: bringing partners together to address complex development challenges that require joint action.

To date, the Office has helped launch over 200 pooled funds and joint programmes across the humanitarian-development-climate-peace ‘spectrum’. In this role it has managed over $20b, investing in programmes bringing together more than 50 participating United Nations organizations (PUNOs).

In 2025, the generous support of partners allowed the MPTFO to transfer $1.06b to 42 UN and 79 non-UN partners in all five major geographic regions, in 115 different countries.

For more on the MPTFO’s work and portfolio in 2025, you can access our ‘2025 Office Highlights’ here.

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Disbursements from MPTFO-administered Trust Funds  by region, 2025

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MPTFO Integrated Service Platform 

The MPTFO manages a full integrated service platform for pooled financing, including:
 

• Fund design involves providing guidance at the initial stage of a fund and supporting the preparation of concept notes and terms of reference (ToR) documentation.
• Fund administration covers the receipt and deposit of financial contributions from donors, as well as treasury and investment management, disbursement of funds, production of annual and certified financial reports, and the timely closure of projects and funds. The Gateway, meanwhile, provides real-time financial data and programme information.
• Fund Secretariat support is provided through technical backing during design, launch, and operationalization phases of new funds.

In addition to these roles, the MPTFO also provides data analytics & knowledge services to partners across the UN system and beyond, including on pooled funding good practices (in conjunction with the UN Sustainable Development Group [UNSDG]), UN pooled funding databases, and on Financing the UN development system, a joint venture with the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, now in its 12^th year - Financing the UN Development System: Managing Unprecedented Times.

For more on how pooled funds work, and how the Office supports pooled financing, you can access the ‘MPTF Factsheet’ here.

In a word? Results. In a few more words: to provide pooled financing services that support Member States, UN entities and all relevant stakeholders work toward sustainable development for people, planet and prosperity.

What kind of results are pooled funds achieving? Every fund page here on the Gateway has a ‘results’ tab and a ‘documents’ tab, that will guide you to the latest ‘short-hand’ results of that fund, and all relevant fund project documentation, describing outcomes and achievements in detail, and against relevant frameworks.

For an overview of fund results broken down by theme, you can also access our ‘Pooled Funds Results Highlights’ here.