The Norwegian Trust Fund for Private Sector and Infrastructure (NTF-PSI) provides grant resources for World Bank Group activities aimed at mainstreaming the investment climate, providing technical assistance in areas related to governance and infrastructure services for the poor, and promoting structured cooperation on petroleum sector governance issues. The NTF-PSI is intended to help develop World Bank Group and client country capacity, promote inclusion of cross-cutting issues into World Bank and the International Finance Corporation's operations, and to foster cooperation among different units in the World Bank Group, United Nations, Norwegian institutions and other external agencies and groups.
Half of the funds are earmarked for Africa. Progress and priorities are discussed and agreed upon at meetings in Norway and Washington, usually in May and November every year. Activities in the NTF-PSI fall into one of the following broad thematic windows:
The current portfolio consists of approximately 25 ongoing activities. The database of activities has extensive information on these activites, and on activties that have already been completed. The Task Team Leaders of each activity report to the Secretariat on progress annually. The progress reports are submitted to the donor in full and discussed during the fund consultations. The templates for the progress reports, end of activity reports and requests for replenishment can be downloaded. Completed reports are found in the database of activities. |
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