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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
Selection of Pharmaceutical Products
Global Fund resources may only be used to procure medicines that are listed in national, institutional or WHO standard treatment guidelines or essential medicines lists.
Preferably, the pharmaceutical products should be selected from national standard treatment guidelines. WHO and other international health agencies have recommended treatment guidelines for HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria, which can be very helpful to countries in developing their own guidelines. However, it is important that national guidelines be adopted to address local requirements and to provide national ownership of the treatment standards.
If national treatment guidelines or lists of essential medicines are not available, and cannot be developed within a timeframe consistent with the project’s needs, Country Offices (COs) can use such guidelines or lists developed by a national institution such as a National AIDS Council or National Malaria Control Programme.
If neither national/institutional guidelines nor essential medicines lists are available, then selection can be based on WHO-recommended treatment guidelines and/or lists of essential medicines.
WHO treatment guidelines and list of essential medicines can be found at the following sites:
- WHO Prequalification Programme
- WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
- Scaling up antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings—treatment guidelines for a public health approach
- Guidelines on care, treatment and support for women living with HIV/AIDS and their children in resource-constrained settings
- Treatment of Tuberculosis: guidelines for national programmes
- WHO TB page and publications
- Anti-malarial drug combination therapy—Report of a WHO Technical Consultation
- WHO malaria publications
- A strategic framework for malaria prevention and control during pregnancy in the Africa region
- New WHO guidelines for ART (June 2013)
- Guide to Global Fund Policies on Procurement and Supply Management of Health Products
Once it has been decided which standard treatment guidelines or essential medicines list will be used, the following steps should be taken to develop the list of products:
- Identify all products selected by generic names.
- Cross-reference with the Global Fund quality assurance policy to ensure compliance.
- Confirm whether it is possible to purchase products in fixed-dose combinations, once-a-day formulations or blister packs.
- Confirm if products are registered in-country by the national drug regulatory authority. If not, explore the possibility of fast-track registration or a temporary waiver of registration if the product has been prequalified by WHO.
- Confirm that there are no intellectual property obstacles to purchasing any products on the list.
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