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Voluntary Trust Fund (VTF)

2025

The following applicant States were provisionally approved for VTF funding in the 2025 cycle:

  1. Burkina Faso
  2. Cameroon
  3. Chile
  4. Côte d'Ivoire
  5. Fiji
  6. Gambia
  7. Latvia
  8. Lesotho
  9. Madagascar
  10. Philippines
  11. Togo

*Details of the projects approved for VTF funding in the 2025 VTF cycle is available here


2024

The following applicant States were approved for VTF funding in the 2024 cycle:

  1. Benin
  2. Brazil
  3. Costa Rica
  4. El  Salvador
  5. Gambia
  6. Guinea
  7. Kiribati
  8. Lesotho
  9. Liberia 
  10. Namibia
  11. Peru
  12. Philippines
  13. Papua New Guinea
  14. Sierra Leone (1)
  15. Sierra Leone (2)
  16. Tanzania
  17. Togo

*Details of the projects approved for VTF funding in the 2024 VTF cycle is available here
*Applications of Benin, Costa Rica, Papua Nea Guinea and Peru were withdrawn.


2023

The following applicant States were approved for VTF funding in the 2023 cycle:

  1. Belize
  2. Burundi
  3. Cambodia
  4. Central African Republic
  5. Ethiopia
  6. Guinea
  7. Lesotho
  8. Liberia 
  9. Madagascar
  10. Malawi
  11. Mauritius
  12. Paraguay
  13. Togo
  14. Zambia

*Details of the projects approved for VTF funding in the 2023 VTF cycle is available here
*Paraguay's application to the VTF was withdrawn.


2022

The following applicant States were approved for VTF funding in the 2022 cycle:
  1. Argentina
  2. Burkina Faso
  3. Côte d'Ivoire
  4. The Gambia
  5. Madagascar
  6. Nigeria
*Details of the projects approved for VTF funding in the 2022 VTF cycle is available here.
*Argentina's application to the VTF was withdrawn.

**The VTF project implemented by Burkina Faso was discontinued.


2021

The following applicant States were approved for VTF funding in the 2021 cycle:

  1. Chile
  2. Costa Rica
  3. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  4. El Salvador
  5. Fiji
  6. Lebanon
  7. Liberia
  8. Mali
  9. Mexico
  10. Namibia
  11. Rwanda
  12. Sudan
  13. Trinidad and Tobago
*Details of the projects approved for VTF funding in the 2023 VTF cycle is available here
*Applications of Lebanon and Mexico to the VTF were withdrawn.

*The VTF project implemented by Sudan was discontinued.


2020

The following applicant States were approved for VTF funding in the 2020 cycle:

  1. Botswana
  2. Côte d'Ivoire
  3. Ghana
  4. Kenya
  5. Madagascar
  6. Nigeria
  7. Sierra Leone
  8. South Sudan
  9. Togo
  10. Zambia
Details of the projects approved for VTF funding in the 2020 VTF cycle available here.
*Botswana's application to the VTF was withdrawn.

*The VTF project implemented by Madagascar was discontinued.


2019

The following applicant States were approved for VTF funding in the 2019 cycle:

  1. Antigua and Barbuda
  2. Burkina Faso
  3. Chile
  4. Côte d'Ivoire
  5. Fiji
  6. Kazakhstan
  7. Lebanon
  8. Madagascar
  9. Mali
  10. Mozambique
  11. Namibia
  12. Palau
  13. Serbia
  14. Sierra Leone
  15. South Sudan
  16. Togo
  17. Tuvalu
  18. Vanuatu
  19. Zambia (1)
  20. Zambia (2)
Details of the projects approved for VTF funding in the 2019 VTF cycle available here.
*Tuvalu's application to the VTF was withdrawn.

*The VTF project implemented by Lebanon was discontinued due to political situation in the country.


2018

The following applicant States were approved for VTF funding in the 2018 cycle:

  1. Burkina Faso
  2. Chad*
  3. Cote d’Ivoire
  4. Dominican Republic
  5. Ghana (1)
  6. Ghana (2)
  7. Madagascar
  8. Paraguay
  9. Samoa
  10. Senegal

Details of the projects approved for VTF funding in the 2018 VTF cycle available here.
*Chad's application to the VTF was withdrawn.


2017

Details of the projects approved for VTF funding in the 2017 VTF cycle available here.

Final Reports

The Final Reports of all completed projects are available below, in accordance with paragraph 16 of the VTF Terms of Reference:

  1. Cameroon
  2. Costa Rica
  3. Côte d'Ivoire (1)
  4. Côte d'Ivoire (2)
  5. El Salvador
  6. Ghana
  7. Guatemala
  8. Liberia
  9. Mauritius
  10. Palau
  11. Philippines
  12. Senegal
  13. Sierra Leone
  14. Togo (1)
  15. Togo (2)