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Functional Areas
- Audit and Investigations
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Capacity development and transition, strengthening systems for health
- A Strategic Approach to Capacity Development
- Capacity Development and Transition - Lessons Learned
- Capacity development and Transition Planning Process
- Capacity Development and Transition
- Capacity Development Objectives and Transition Milestones
- Capacity Development Results - Evidence From Country Experiences
- Functional Capacities
- Interim Principal Recipient of Global Fund Grants
- Legal and Policy Enabling Environment
- Overview
- Resilience and Sustainability
- Transition
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Financial Management
- CCM Funding
- Grant Closure
- Grant Implementation
- Grant-Making and Signing
- Grant Reporting
- Overview
- Sub-recipient Management
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Grant closure
- Overview
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Steps of Grant Closure Process
- 1. Global Fund Notification Letter 'Guidance on Grant Closure'
- 2. Preparation and Submission of Grant Close-Out Plan and Budget
- 3. Global Fund Approval of Grant Close-Out Plan
- 4. Implementation of Close-Out Plan and Completion of Final Global Fund Requirements (Grant Closure Period)
- 5. Operational Closure of Project
- 6. Financial Closure of Project
- 7. Documentation of Grant Closure with Global Fund Grant Closure Letter
- Terminology and Scenarios for Grant Closure Process
- Human resources
- Human rights, key populations and gender
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Legal Framework
- Agreements with Sub-sub-recipients
- Amending Legal Agreements
- Implementation Letters and Management Letters
- Language of the Grant Agreement and other Legal Instruments
- Legal Framework for Other UNDP Support Roles
- Other Legal and Implementation Considerations
- Overview
- Project Document
- Signing Legal Agreements and Requests for Disbursement
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The Grant Agreement
- Grant Confirmation: Conditions Precedent (CP)
- Grant Confirmation: Conditions
- Grant Confirmation: Face Sheet
- Grant Confirmation: Limited Liability Clause
- Grant Confirmation: Schedule 1, Integrated Grant Description
- Grant Confirmation: Schedule 1, Performance Framework
- Grant Confirmation: Schedule 1, Summary Budget
- Grant Confirmation: Special Conditions (SCs)
- Grant Confirmation
- UNDP-Global Fund Grant Regulations
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Principal Recipient Start-Up
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Procurement and Supply Management
- Development of List of Health Products and Procurement Action Plan
- Distribution and Inventory Management
- Overview
- Price and Quality Reporting (PQR) System
- Procurement of Non-health Products and Services
- Procurement of Pharmaceutical and Other Health Products
- Quality Control
- Rational use of Medicines and Pharmacovigilance Systems
- Strengthening of PSM Services and Risk Mitigation
- UNDP Health PSM Roster
- UNDP Quality Assurance Policy and Plan
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Reporting
- Communicating Results
- Grant Performance Report
- Overview
- Performance-based Funding and Disbursement Decision
- PR and Coordinating Mechanism (CM) Communication and Governance
- Reporting to the Global Fund
- UNDP Corporate Reporting
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Risk Management
- Common Risks Identified in Global Fund Programmes
- Global Fund Risk Management
- Introduction to Risk Management
- Overview
- Risk Management in High Risk Environments
- Risk Management in UNDP-managed Global Fund Grants
- Risk management in UNDP
- UNDP Risk Management in the Global Fund Portfolio
- Sub-Recipient Management
Objective of this Section
A growing body of evidence suggests that human rights barriers can drive people away from health-seeking behaviour, thereby fuelling the spread of the three diseases. These barriers can include, among others, stigma and discrimination, punitive legal and policy frameworks, lack of informed consent, mandatory testing, and gender-based violence. As a result of gender-based discrimination, women and girls are disadvantaged when it comes to negotiating safe sex, and accessing HIV prevention information and services. However, despite recognition of this reality and substantive guidance on the importance of programmes to combat human rights and gender-related barriers, a Global Fund analysis found that many grants do not include this programming, or, if they do, it is included at very low levels (~1percent of total grant budget). A UNAIDS report found that “Social enablers—including advocacy, political mobilization, law and policy reform, human rights, public communication and stigma reduction—should reach 6% of total expenditure by 2020.”
This section of the Manual includes links to the existing and substantial policy and programming guidance, as well as practice pointers to implement programmes to address human right barriers and promote gender equality at various points in the grant life cycle. It is not meant to be an exhaustive section of the guidance and resources available, but rather a guide to help programme and policy staff to develop, implement and evaluate programmes that seek to promote an enabling environment.
A key goal of this section is to facilitate an understanding of human rights, the needs and vulnerabilities of key populations and women and girls, and the interrelatedness of these areas in the context of achieving positive health outcomes for HIV, TB and malaria, and to prepare Country Offices (COs) to advocate for, and effectively implement and evaluate, programmes to promote and protect human rights and gender equality. Recognizing that these are issues which can often be misunderstood or deprioritized, it is strongly recommended that relevant Project Management Unit (PMU) staff closely consult with their contact in the UNDP Global Fund/Health Implementation Support Team to answer any questions, provide guidance, and to ensure that they have access to the most up to date policies. To support the introduction of this work, the HIV Health and Development Group has developed a vetted roster of qualified consultants who can help with policy and programme work to support design, implementation or evaluation of human rights, key populations and gender interventions.