Contributions to Financial Intermediary Funds

Temporal Coverage: Calendar year 1991 - 2015Financial 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.