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Functional Areas
- Principal Recipient Start-Up
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Legal Framework
- Overview
- Project Document
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The Grant Agreement
- UNDP-Global Fund Grant Regulations
- Grant Confirmation
- Grant Confirmation: Face Sheet
- Grant Confirmation: Conditions
- Grant Confirmation: Conditions Precedent (CP)
- Grant Confirmation: Special Conditions (SCs)
- Grant Confirmation: Schedule 1, Integrated Grant Description
- Grant Confirmation: Schedule 1, Performance Framework
- Grant Confirmation: Schedule 1, Summary Budget
- Implementation Letters and Performance Letters
- Agreements with Sub-recipients
- Agreements with Sub-sub-recipients
- Signing Legal Agreements and Requests for Disbursement
- Language of the Grant Agreement and other Legal Instruments
- Amending Legal Agreements
- Other Legal and Implementation Considerations
- Legal Framework for Other UNDP Support Roles
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Health Product Management
- Overview - Health Product Management
- UNDP Quality Assurance Policy
- Product Selection
- Quantification and Forecasting
- Supply Planning of Health Products
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Sourcing and regulatory aspects
- Global Health Procurement Center (GHPC)
- Development of List of Health Products
- Development of the Health Procurement Action Plan (HPAP)
- Health Procurement Architecture
- Local Procurement of health products
- Procurement of Pharmaceutical Products
- Procurement of non-pharmaceutical Health Products
- Other Elements of the UNDP Procurement Architecture
- Submission of GHPC CO Procurement Request Form
- Guidance on donations of health products
- International freight, transit requirements and use of INCOTERMS
- Inspection and Receipt
- Storage
- Inventory Management
- Distribution
- Quality monitoring of health products
- Waste management
- Rational use
- Pharmacovigilance
- Risk Management for PSM of health products
- Compliance with the Global Fund requirements
- UNDP Health PSM Roster
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Financial Management
- Overview
- Grant-Making and Signing
- Grant Implementation
- Sub-recipient Management
- Grant Reporting
- Grant Closure
- CCM Funding
- Import duties and VAT / sales tax
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Monitoring and Evaluation
- Overview
- Differentiation Approach
- Monitoring and Evaluation Components of Funding Request
- Monitoring and Evaluation Components of Grant Making
- M&E Components of Grant Implementation
- Sub-Recipient Management
- Grant Reporting
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Capacity development and transition, strengthening systems for health
- Overview
- Interim Principal Recipient of Global Fund Grants
- A Strategic Approach to Capacity Development
- Resilience and Sustainability
- Legal and Policy Enabling Environment
- Functional Capacities
- Capacity Development and Transition
- Transition
- Capacity Development Objectives and Transition Milestones
- Capacity Development Results - Evidence From Country Experiences
- Capacity development and Transition Planning Process
- Capacity Development and Transition - Lessons Learned
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Risk Management
- Overview
- Introduction to Risk Management
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Risk Management in the Global Fund
- Global Fund Risk Management Framework
- Local Fund Agent
- Challenging Operating Environment (COE) Policy
- Additional Safeguard Policy
- Global Fund Risk Management Requirements for PRs
- Global Fund Risk Management Requirements During Funding Request
- Global Fund Review of Risk Management During Grant Implementation
- Risk management in UNDP
- Risk Management in UNDP-managed Global Fund projects
- UNDP Risk Management Process
- Risk management in crisis settings
- Audit and Investigations
- Human rights, key populations and gender
- Human resources
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Grant closure
- Overview
- Terminology and Scenarios for Grant Closure Process
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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
Overview
As one of the initial steps of the Funding Request preparation the working group developing the funding request must complete the Programmatic Gap Tables described in the next section.
Development of the Funding Request is guided by the Global Fund’s modular framework (updated for allocation period 2023-2025), which sets out the key areas of programming (‘modules’) for each of the three diseases and for building resilient and sustainable health systems. Example of modules include:
- Vector control (for malaria)
- TB care and prevention (for tuberculosis)
- Prevention programmes for general key populations (for HIV)
- Health and community workforce (for health systems strengthening)
- Removing legal barriers to access (for human rights-related programming)
Each module is broken down into individual interventions, the associated budget and the indicators against which the program progress is to be measured.
The outputs of the Programmatic Gap Table are then translated into a Performance Framework and, after negotiations during the Grant Making stage, becomes a part of the Grant Agreement.
The Performance Framework sets out what the grant is intended to achieve, specific targets and how achievement should be measured. The menu of impact, outcome and coverage indicators provided in the modular framework supports the selection of relevant indicators for grant performance assessment.
The Global Fund has developed disease- specific for more detailed information to assist with data collections and reporting on the HIV, TB, malaria and RSSH indicators outlined in the Modular Framework Handbook.
The Global Fund does not require the submission of an M&E Plan at the funding request stage. However, the National disease-specific Strategic Plan (NSP)which should be developed prior to, or in concert with, the funding request needs to include an appropriate review and evaluation mechanisms, and to describe how the results from these mechanisms will be used to improve the particular disease programme.
It is important for UNDP as Principal Recipient (PR) to start working early with the ministry of health, national disease programmes and the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) to achieve the following:
- Ensure that a functional routine reporting system with reasonable coverage is in place to report against national targets timely and accurately; if not, a plan to address the gaps in coverage must be developed and included in the National costed M&E Plan;
- Engage technical partners (WHO, UNAIDS) to support required data collection and analysis at the national and subnational levels; and
- Share tools and practices related to M&E with the ministry of health and national disease programmes.