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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
This Chapter is structured around the key stages of the Global Fund grant architecture which have their respective M&E requirements – Funding Request preparation, Grant Making and Grant Implementation. The Chapter aims to provide guidance to the M&E and Programme specialists at Programme Management Units (PMUs) on the specific M&E components / documents related to each of the above stages. Where applicable, links to more detailed documents are included. At the start of the Chapter, the Differentiation Approach used by the Global Fund for different portfolio categories is explained. (NB: The Grant Closure stage is not covered as it does not have any additional M&E-related requirements besides the routine progress reporting).
The Chapter will be further enhanced based on the practical experience from the GC7 funding cycle, and upon learning specific needs and areas for improvement of PMUs.
If any questions arise on the content of this Chapter or application of specific guidance, please reach out to your GFPHST M&E Specialist.
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are a key component of programming. Through M&E, the programme results at all levels can be measured to provide the basis for accountability and informed decision-making at both programme and policy level.
Programme monitoring is the routine tracking of the key elements of programme/project performance through proper data systems, regular reporting and surveillance systems, as well as service delivery point observation and beneficiary surveys / spot-checks.
Programme evaluation is the episodic systematic examination of the outcomes of a program against its stated objectives. Grant-specific mid-year and final evaluations are not part of the Global Fund’s funding model; however, the grant’s performance is thoroughly evaluated at predefined intervals (twice a year for Core and High Impact countries, and once a year for Focused countries). Moreover, the Global Fund often funds or co-funds disease-specific program reviews whereby the grant’s performance and contributions in the disease response are also evaluated. Also, the grant may become part of a thematic evaluation commissioned by the Global Fund in a sample of countries. Considering the above, the Global Fund grants typically do not fund evaluations commissioned by UNDP.