Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF)

The Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP, recently announced a further £10 million to support projects under the GTF. This brings the total available for projects to £130 million over five years. Decisions have now been released for all proposals.

Background

The criteria and guidelines for the GTF were launched in February 2007 with an initial budget of £100 million.

The deadline for applications for the Fund was September 2007 by which time we had received and began to appraise 272 individual proposals from an exceptionally wide range of applicants from the UK, mainland Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Latin America. The proposals under consideration also covered a very wide range of governance and transparency issues making the appraisal and decision making process a very demanding task for DFID.

As well as full technical appraisals by experienced professional staff of the Fund Manager (a consortium led by KPMG) all proposals were also circulated widely around DFID including copies being sent to all relevant DFID country offices and posts. The views and appraisals provided were used by DFID senior staff to approve a final list of 38 provisionally approved proposals (final funding will be subject to a variety of minor issues being resolved).

View the list of approved proposals. (93 kb)

All 272 applicants have been informed of our decisions and unsuccessful applicants can all expect to receive feedback on our decision by the end of May.

The GTF was, and remains, a one-off Fund therefore there are no plans to issue any further calls for proposals.

Useful Links

• Guidelines, criteria and concept note guidance
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Terms of Reference for the Fund Manager(38 kb)
• Governance and Transparency – some thoughts(37 kb)
• GTF E-mail updates

If you have any questions on any aspect of the Fund please e-mail gtf@dfid.gov.uk.

Last updated 6 May 2008