Nordic Plus : Practical Guide to Joint Financing Arrangements

The Joint Financing Arrangement (JFA) has been designed as a tool to help aid practitioners involved in multi-donor cooperation. It can be used as an instrument to design or redesign the structure of such cooperation. Because of its versatility and flexibility, the JFA can be used for a broad range of aid modalities (budget support, the pooling of funds or projects). The goal of the JFA is to provide practical support to the field in the often time-consuming process of harmonisation.

Prepared in 2004, and evaluated and revised in 2007, by the Civil Law Division of the Legal Affairs Department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in close consultation with other departments and with representatives of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Irish Aid, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (Dfid).