Joint Nordic Evaluation of Support to Trust funds
Multilateral contributions constitute an increasing share of development assistance from the Nordic countries, and a significant and increasing share of the multilateral contributions is earmarked and channelled through various multilateral trust funds. It is envisaged that this trend will continue in the future not least within areas related to climate change. An overview showed that 100 trust funds had received support from at least two Nordic countries, while 21 trust funds had been supported by Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, and 9 trust funds by all five Nordic countries. Thus, there was a common interest for evaluating the support, and Denmark has taken lead on the on-going Joint Nordic Evaluation of Support to Trust Funds, with engagement of all the Nordic countries. The focus of the evaluation is both on accountability and learning by assessing Nordic support to multilateral trust funds, and it will provide recommendations on how to improve the use of this instrument.