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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
- Import duties and VAT / sales tax
- 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-recipients
- Agreements with Sub-sub-recipients
- Amending Legal Agreements
- Implementation Letters and Performance 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: 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
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Monitoring and Evaluation
- Differentiation Approach
- Monitoring and Evaluation Components of Funding Request
- M&E Components of Grant Implementation
- Monitoring and Evaluation Components of Grant Making
- Overview
- Principal Recipient Start-Up
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Health Product Management
- UNDP Quality Assurance Policy
- Compliance with the Global Fund requirements
- Distribution
- Inspection and Receipt
- International freight, transit requirements and use of INCOTERMS
- Inventory Management
- Overview - Health Product Management
- Pharmacovigilance
- Product Selection
- Quality monitoring of health products
- Quantification and Forecasting
- Rational use
- Risk Management for PSM of health products
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Sourcing and regulatory aspects
- Development of List of Health Products
- Development of the Health Procurement Action Plan (HPAP)
- Global Health Procurement Center (GHPC)
- Guidance on donations of health products
- Health Procurement Architecture
- Local Procurement of health products
- Other Elements of the UNDP Procurement Architecture
- Procurement of non-pharmaceutical Health Products
- Procurement of Pharmaceutical Products
- Submission of GHPC CO Procurement Request Form
- Storage
- Supply Planning of Health Products
- UNDP Health PSM Roster
- Waste management
- Grant Reporting
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Risk Management
- Introduction to Risk Management
- Overview
- Risk management in crisis settings
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Risk Management in the Global Fund
- Additional Safeguard Policy
- Challenging Operating Environment (COE) Policy
- Global Fund Review of Risk Management During Grant Implementation
- Global Fund Risk Management Framework
- Global Fund Risk Management Requirements During Funding Request
- Global Fund Risk Management Requirements for PRs
- Local Fund Agent
- Risk management in UNDP
- Risk Management in UNDP-managed Global Fund projects
- UNDP Risk Management Process
- Sub-Recipient Management
Resilience and Sustainability
To build resilience and ensure greater sustainability whilst UNDP is an interim Principal Recipient (PR) or programme manager, the provision of services to the end users are delivered by national government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private sector entities where feasible. UNDP is not normally directly involved in implementation with the exception of procurement where international competitive bidding through long term agreements (LTAs) ensures value for money, cost reductions, and frequently, in savings for the programme. In procurement and supply management (PSM) national entities normally have central roles in forecasting and quantification to allow orders to be placed, as well as the storage and distribution once the orders have been received. UNDP as interim PR supports national entities in strengthening warehouse facilities, Logistics Management Information Systems (LMIS), as well as transport and distribution. A summary of PSM capacity development can be found here.
This focus on sustainable systems for health and linkages to Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) programme, helps to ensure infrastructure, information systems, procedures and management are enhanced with the aim of both improving and sustaining the performance of the national programme, as well as donor and Global Fund grants. The comprehensive capacity development approach of enhancing national systems for health seeks to create greater resilience. This comprehensive approach involves putting in place structures with appropriate roles and responsibilities to manage national programme and Global Fund grants. This is supported by performance-based terms of reference (TORs), merit-based recruitment, orientation, professional development and on the job training and coaching and mentoring. This is enhanced by producing or updating manuals, standard operating procedures (SOPs), together with guidance and templates, as well as support on infrastructure development, such as hardware, internet connectivity and relevant software. This helps reduce the dependence on a small number of core staff and accelerates the recruitment and orientation of new staff. This strategic approach to capacity development is more comprehensive than the narrower traditional approach of capacity building of training and technical assistance (TA).
Where UNDP supports the implementation of health programmes and Global Fund grants in challenging operating environments, it uses diverse strategies to maximize resilience including: mobile payment systems; electronic tracking of patients aiming to provide continuity of treatment and essential services; and supply chain management that is responsive to the impact of conflict and service delivery disruptions.
Additional guidance to support this area of work are also available through resources listed below:
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