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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
National Strategic Plans (NSPs)
The Global Fund bases its support on funding requests that are based on disease-specific NSPs that are robust, prioritized and costed. To serve as the basis for funding, the Global Fund expects NSPs and the national health strategy to be developed through inclusive, multi-stakeholder efforts (involving key populations), and be aligned with international norms and guidance. They should also be built on a clear understanding of the national epidemic based on epidemiological data disaggregated by age and sex, with specific analysis related to human rights, gender and key populations, and other barriers that affect access to health services.
- NSP analysis is conducted
- A needs assessment specific to gender, key populations and/or other marginalized groups, including a Legal Environment Assessment, is conducted
- The needs and rights of women and key populations are represented on the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM)
Practice Pointer- Despite focused efforts, it has been recognized that robust, prioritized and costed NSPs are often few and far between. Technical support and assistance is available from various donor agencies to either strengthen NSPs or to conduct the analysis needed for developing a strong funding request. UNDP has developed a roster of qualified consultants who will be available to support this process. In addition, the Global Fund will allow countries to reprogram up to US$150,000 of funds from existing grants to support this work, if it is requested by the CCM.
- This should include efforts at ensuring that the epidemiological data which will normally inform the performance targets in the Country Grants are correct and realistic to avoid a situation where targets are based on incorrect data from poor size estimations and routine surveys. This has been the experience in a number of countries and has been responsible for the poor performance recorded in their Office of the Inspector General (OIG) assessment Report.
- A number of strong tools help guide a gender assessment. These include the UNAIDS Gender Assessment Tool; as well as the forthcoming Gender Assessment Tool for HIV and TB co-infection.
Technical Assistance (TA) to support development or updating of NSPs is also available through a number of bilateral technical providers listed below, at every stage of the grant cycle:
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