Trust Fund is a financing arrangement set up with contributions from one or more external donor(s), and/or World Bank Group and disburses funds to the recipients or to the Bank to support development related activities.

The World Bank Group is normally responsible for all financial and programmatic functions of a Trust Fund, including oversight of the operational use of the funding. In fulfilling its responsibilities, the World Bank as Administrator/Trustee complies with relevant agreement entered into with the donors and internal policies applicable to the World Bank Group. The TF resources are used to support the Bank’s own work program through Bank-executed trust funds (BETFs) and funds are also provided to third party executing agencies through Recipient-executed trust funds (RETFs). Financial Intermediary Funds (FIFs) comprise of trust funds not covered by either the BETFs or RETFs categories in which the Bank provides specific administrative or financial services with a limited fiduciary or operational role.

The dataset provided information on the Contribution paid-in by a Donor to a Trust Fund, as specified in the Administration Agreement/ Arrangement, or in the Instrument of Commitment. The information is available by fiscal year from 2012 onwards.

The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) generates a quarterly report to Donors. This dataset represents acronyms defined in the quarterly report, and are applicable to the ARTF program as a whole.

For IBRD/IDA and IFC Trust Funds, the World Bank Group is normally responsible for all financial and programmatic functions, including oversight of the operational use of the funding. In fulfilling its responsibilities, the World Bank as Trustee complies with all sanctions applicable to World Bank transactions. The use of IBRD/IDA TFs is split between Bank-executed trust funds (BETFs), which are used in support of the Bank's work program, and Recipient-executed trust funds (RETFs), under which funds are provided to a third party, normally in the form of project financing, and supervised by the Bank. IFC manages the funds in support of IFC advisory services and donor-funded investments.

No further updates are planned for this particular dataset, please visit the Global Partnership and Trust Fund Operations website for more details: http://go.worldbank.org/GABMG2YEI0

Financial Intermediary Funds (FIFs) are multilateral financing arrangements for which the World Bank provides Trustee services that include committing and transferring funds to project implementers (generally international organizations such as multilateral development banks or UN agencies). In all cases the World Bank as Trustee is required to act in accordance with instructions of independent governing bodies.

In fulfilling its responsibilities, the World Bank as Trustee complies with all sanctions applicable to World Bank transactions.

The innovative financing and governance arrangements of FIFs enable funds to be raised from multiple sources, including from sovereign and private sources. FIF structures are customizable. For instance FIFs have been customized to receive contributions in the form of concessional loans in addition to traditional grant funds, and can provide funding to recipients using customized financial products.

Data is provided as of 12/31/2013. No further updates are planned for this particular dataset.

A Recipient-executed Grant is a Trust Fund Grant that is provided to a third party under a grant agreement, and for which the Bank plays an operational role - i.e., the Bank normally appraises and supervises activities financed by these funds. This dataset provides data on the amount of grant funds committed in the course of a fiscal year and payments made out of a Trust Fund account to eligible recipients, in accordance with the legal agreements. In fulfilling its responsibilities, the World Bank as Trustee complies with all sanctions applicable to World Bank transactions. All definitions should be regarded at present as provisional and not final, and are subject to revision at any time.
Data is provided at the individual Trust Fund level and is updated as of 04/02/2015. No further updates are planned for this particular dataset, please visit the Global Partnership and Trust Fund Operations website for more details: http://go.worldbank.org/GABMG2YEI0

A Trust Fund is a financing arrangement set up with contributions from one or more donor(s), and in some
cases from the World Bank Group. A Trust Fund can be country-specific, regional, or global in its
geographic scope, and it can be free-standing or programmatic. In fulfilling its responsibilities, the World Bank as Trustee complies with all sanctions applicable to World Bank transactions. This dataset provides a summary of the contributions per fiscal year at the individual Trust Fund level. All definitions should be regarded at present as provisional and not final, and are subject to revision at any time. Please refer to http://www.cfpto.org/TFGlossary2012/ for the Trust Fund Glossary.

Data is updated as of 09/12/2012. No further updates are planned for this particular dataset.