WHY INVEST IN THE DIGITAL COOPERATION FUND?

The Digital Cooperation Fund offers a powerful platform for collective impact, pooling resources from diverse donors into alignment with shared goals.

Making concentrated investments in carefully defined niches and policy windows to catalyse digital cooperation, the fund offers transparency, reduces duplication, and enables joint programming across UN agencies and partners.

With robust governance, real-time financial tracking, and streamlined reporting, the Multi-Partner Trust Fund turns fragmented contributions into strategic, high-impact investments.

DCF IMPACT

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Mobilized over two years to drive digital cooperation projects that benefit people and the planet.

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Global cooperation projects funded since 2023.

CATALYTIC LEVERAGE

During its first 24 months, US $8.2 million was committed by 12 DCF Donors.

By pooling resources into a UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund, every contribution unlocks co-financing across pillars that amplifies results. Concentrated, carefully timed investments enables the DCF to catalyse multistakeholder collective action across borders to spread the benefits of technology safely in an era of rapid technological change.

TRUSTED UN FIDUCIARY OVERSIGHT

Each Participating UN Organisation (PUNO) assumes full programmatic and financial accountability for funds disbursed through them, administering such funds in accordance with the UN financial framework, regulations, rules, directives and procedures. The common trusted administrative platform also enables lower overhead costs.

MULTI-STAKEHOLDER APPROACH & GLOBAL IMPACT

Projects under the Digital Cooperation Fund are implemented in alignment with a multistakeholder approach by actively involving a diverse range of actors including governments, UN entities, civil society, the private sector, academia, and the technical community, throughout the project lifecycle. This inclusive model ensures that solutions that are rights-based, context-sensitive, and technically sound.