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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
M&E Plan
Principal Recipients (PRs) are required to submit a national or grant-specific Monitoring and Evaluation plan (specific to a disease or for a combination of the three diseases, depending on the country approach), as agreed with in-country partners and the GF Country Team.
The M&E Plan is an essential document for a country as it describes how the M&E system should be run. It contains detailed information regarding indicators, data management, data quality assurance, M&E coordination, capacity-building for M&E, information products and their dissemination, and M&E budgets. It should be accompanied by an annual costed workplan describing the planned M&E activities for each year including the strengthening measures to improve the M&E system identified through M&E system or data quality assessments. The M&E Plan is instrumental for monitoring the National Strategic Plan(s) to which the Global Fund-supported programme contributes.
The Principal Recipient (PRs) is expected to submit to the Global Fund a detailed plan for monitoring the Program implemented by the Principal Recipient. Not later than ninety (90) days after the grant start date (NB: The 90-day timeline was confirmed by the Global Fund in early July 2024, as the M&E Plan guidelines stipulate submission at the time of grant signing).
There may be certain cases in which submitting a national plan is not feasible, for example:
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for regional multi-country grants. These require developing a specific regional M&E Plan that is aligned as much as possible with the national M&E Plans of all the countries concerned.
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when the national M&E Plan is not sufficiently detailed for Global Fund requirements or does not cover the full scope of the proposal. In this case, the Principal Recipient should prepare an annex to the national M&E Plan to provide the missing information or develop a separate document that is consistent with the National M&E Plan. Whenever relevant, the Global Fund and the Principal Recipient will agree on a timeline to produce an updated version of the National M&E Plan that fully covers the scope of activities supported by the national program and the Global Fund.
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when the country does not have a National M&E Plan and the process of developing one will take longer than the grant negotiation period. In this case, a provisional document can be drawn up and updated or replaced once the National M&E Plan is developed.
See detailed guidance for the preparation of M&E Plan in Global Fund M&E Plan Guidelines. While the format and structure of the M&E Plan are discretionary, the Principal Recipient should ensure that the components outlined in the M&E Plan guidelines are included.
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