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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
Project Management and Update in Atlas
UNDP Programme and Operations Policies and Procedures are followed for project management and project update in Atlas. Please refer to POPP on Implementing a Project for further guidance.
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Customized tools and reports have been developed in Atlas to facilitate project monitoring and donor reporting for Global Fund projects. Project management functionality is used for programmatic information, as well as programmatic and financial reporting for the required Global Fund Progress Update. Refer to Project Management and Progress Update in Atlas (UNDP).
Import duties and VAT/sales tax
UNDP is entitled to reimbursement of indirect taxes, such as sales tax and VAT, on important purchases. The policy of the United Nations, including UNDP, is that all purchases are “important”, as they are recurring and necessary for UNDP to carry out its official activities. While governments in some countries have provided an outright exemption to indirect taxes, in most countries Country Offices (COs) may be required to pay taxes and seek reimbursement. COs should liaise with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure reimbursement. Any difficulties with respect to exemption from taxation or reimbursement of taxes should be addressed to the Director of the UNDP Legal Office (LO). Please refer to POPP on Payment and Taxes for further guidance.
Article 4(a) of the UNDP-Global Fund Grant Regulations states that the Principal Recipient (PR) shall try to ensure through coordination with the Government of the Host Country and the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) and otherwise that this Agreement and the assistance financed hereunder shall be free from taxes and duties imposed under law in effect in the Host Country. The PR shall assert all exemptions from taxes and duties to which it believes it, the Global Fund or the Grant is entitled.
CO/PRs should also support Sub-recipients (SRs) in requesting tax exemption from the respective Government authorities for goods and services procured with funds from the Global Fund and such documentation should be kept on file to prove that efforts were made to meet the provisions of this article and avoid liability for any import duties and VAT/sales tax not exempted or recovered from Government.
COs/PRs are required to maintain records throughout the year of any import duties and VAT/sales tax paid with grant funds and amounts recovered. Such records are necessary to support the annual grant tax reporting to the Global Fund and for audit purposes.
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