Key Facts

—The fund. CAF opened a multi-donor Fund for the Recovery and Reconstruction of Venezuela of up to $200m.

—The seed. The bank put in a $1m non-reimbursable contribution to activate it, on top of an earlier $300,000 donation.

—The scale. A United Nations assessment puts the reconstruction bill at about $6.7bn.

—The terms. CAF will charge no management fee, and the fund is walled off from its own money with an independent audit.