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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
Global Fund M&E System Requirements
The Global Fund requires a functional routine reporting system with reasonable coverage to be in place to report programme performance accurately and in a timely manner. The monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system/Health Management and Information System (HMIS) for public-sector facilities shouldhave coverage of at least 50 percent, and there should be a costed plan to improve coverage to 80 percent.
The relevant HIV, TB and malaria indicators should have clear definitions, should be aligned with international definitions, and should be coded in the HMIS. The M&E system also needs to have a data-assurance mechanism in place to annually verify data.
M&E budget and funding request
If the national M&E system does not meet the necessary requirements, sufficient grant funds should be dedicated to strengthening M&E systems in the country. The Global Fund recommends that grants allocate 5–10 percent to M&E, which includes strengthening national data systems of reporting (analytical capacity and reviews, strengthening HMIS, population-based and risk group surveys, and birth and death statistics), with the following exceptions:
- When the grant M&E budget is less than five percent, the Principal Recipient (PR) should demonstrate that sufficient funds are available from other sources to support implementation of the grant and the national M&E plan.
- In cases of M&E system-strengthening proposals; when the proposal includes specific studies, surveys or reviews/evaluations to measure the outcome/impact of the disease control or health systems strengthening (HSS) investments; or when there is evidence of an extremely weak M&E system that requires funding for strengthening, the grant M&E budget may exceed the 10 percent indicative upper limit.
For more guidance on M&E budgeting, see the Global Fund Budgeting Guidelines. The M&E activities must be included in the funding request under the module ‘Health information system and M&E’. All M&E activities should be included under this module, whether disease-specific or cross-cutting. All M&E-related activities under this module will be considered as HSS, irrespective of the disease grant for which this module is included. Only those supervision-related activities that are specifically for data collection, reporting and/or data validation should be included under this module. Other costs related to programme supervision and site visits should be included under the module ‘Programme management’.
The health information systems and M&E module has five standard interventions and associated indicators, activities and budget lines, plus a sixth undetermined intervention allowing applicants to lay out their own M&E priorities.
- Routine reporting – included in the scope of this intervention are activities related to the establishment, maintenance and/or strengthening of the national M&E system.
- Analysis, review and transparency – activities related to programme evaluation including analysis, interpretation and use of data generated through integrated programme reviews, implementation research, and evaluations of the national strategic plans and/or health sector strategies.
- Surveys – including surveys/studies related to morbidity, mortality and behavioural surveys in general population or identified risk groups.
- Administrative and finance data sources – including establishing systems for periodic (annual) reporting on key health administrative and service availability statistics, setting up financial reporting/accounting systems, annual reviews of health sector and/or disease programme budget.
- Vital registration systems – including establishing/strengthening and scaling up vital registration information system, including sample vital registration systems, strengthening reporting of hospital morbidity and mortality statistics, cause of death, establishment of SMS system of reporting; training of community health workers on reporting vital events, drug stock-outs etc.
- Other – other interventions related to health information and M&E systems.
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