Syria Recovery Trust Fund (SRTF)

The Syria Recovery Trust Fund (SRTF) is a multi-donor trust fund initiated by the Group of Friends of the Syrian People and its Working Group on Economic Recovery and Development. It serves to channel grant funding from the international community in a transparent and accountable manner into projects inside Syria with the objective to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people. The Framework Agreement to establish the SRTF was signed on 2 September 2013. The parties to the agreement include the three original donors: the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America, together with the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (SOC), as the legitimate representative of the Syrian People, the German Development Bank KfW as Trustee and the SRTF Management Unit. Denmark also signed on the same day, subsequently followed by Sweden Finland, Japan, the United Kingdom, the State of Kuwait, France, Italy and the Netherland...