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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
Pharmaceutical Products
Sourcing through UNICEF Supply Division
UNDP Principal Recipients (PRs) are advised by the UNDP Bureau for Management Services (BMS) and the UNDP Global Fund/Health Implementation Support Team, UNDP Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), to procure their pharmaceutical products via Service Level Agreement (SLA) established with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Supply Division. The rationale for this is the various value-added services provided by UNICEF, such as:
- Technical expertise, management and supply services, including warehousing, quality assurance and quality control in compliance with Global Fund policies on procurement and supply management of health products, Global Fund and UNDP Quality Assurance (QA) requirement and WHO Good Storage and Distribution Practices;
- value for money, as costs are negotiated based on aggregated procurement volumes and volume discounts are obtained where applicable;
- transparency afforded by competitive processes in line with United Nations procurement procedures; and
- strong logistic services and capability, with contracted deliveries under CIP Incoterms with delivery to main airport/port of entry into country.
Relevant documents, including the UNICEF UNDP Guide, the UNICEF cost estimate (CE) request template and other documents are accessible here.
The following exceptions apply to the guidance to source pharmaceutical products through UNICEF Supply Division:
- ARVs medicines (adult formulation): UNDP has developed and manages a system of Long-Term Agreements (LTAs) with all ARV manufacturers that meet the minimum UNDP quality assurance requirements for ARV medicines (adult formulation). The pediatric ARV formulation should still be channelled through UNICEF. Requesting units are advised to source any ARV medicines (adult formulations) through the UNDP LTAs. The LTAs, together with a set of comprehensive standard operating procedures (SOPs) are available here.
Anti-tuberculosis medicines
First-line medicines
UNDP has developed and manages a system of LTAs with manufacturers that meet the minimum Global Fund and UNDP quality assurance requirements for first-line TB medicines. Requesting units are advised to source any first-line TB medicine needs through the UNDP LTAs. The LTAs together with a set of comprehensive SOPs are available here.
As a back-up option to the existing UNDP LTAs, requesting units can also source their first-line TB medicines needs through the Procurement Services Unit (PSU)/Global Procurement Unit (GPU). However, since this is an exception to the standard procedures, such action requires prior approval by the UNDP Global Fund/Health Implementation Support Team Senior PSM Advisor.
Second-line medicines
All second-line anti-TB medicines shall be procured in adherence to the Global Fund 13th Board Decision of 2006. To limit resistance to second-line TB drugs, and to be consistent with the policies of other international funding sources, all procurement of medicines to treat multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) financed by the Global Fund must be conducted through the Green Light Committee (GLC) of the Stop TB Partnership.
To procure second-line TB medicines, an application must be submitted to the WHO Global Drug Facility (GDF), which is the GLC’s procurement arm. To access the application, please visit this page and click on the “Direct Procurement Request Form Medicines”. The GDF facilitates GLC reviews of applications from potential Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) Plus pilot projects. The GLC review determines whether applications are in compliance with the Guidelines for Establishing DOTS Plus Pilot Projects for the Management of MDR-TB. The application must be completed in English along with the MDR–TB Procurement Request Form and Technical Agreement (MPTA) and submitted to GDF. The MPTA template can be provided by GDF, and specific instructions will also come from GDF, which works via a procurement service agent to deliver the medicines. Procurement of second-line TB medicines is channelled via the International Dispensary Association (IDA) foundation. GDF might change procurement agents from time to time, based on the outcome of the competitive procurement process. The UNDP Global Fund/Health Implementation Support Team will inform the COs accordingly.
Antimalaria medicines
UNDP has developed and manages a LTA with Novartis for the supply of Coartem under several presentations. Requesting units may choose to source this product through the SLA with UNICEF Supply Division, which is often able to offer alternative options to meet the needs based on generic products meeting the minimum quality assurance requirements. However, requesting units shall note that Novartis presently remains the sole WHO prequalified option for the supply of Atemether / Lumefantrine (80/480 mg) 6 tablet based treatment. Therefore requesting units are strongly encouraged to source any needs for this specific formulation through the existing UNDP LTA.
Sourcing through Commercial LTAs (back-up) system
In the event that the pharmaceutical products required are not included in the UNICEF Supply Division online catalogue or the UNICEF Supply Division informs the UNDP CO in writing of its inability to provide antiretrovirals (ARVs), antimalarials or other essential medicines, the CO/PMU must provide proof that UNICEF has not responded in a timely manner to its request. The CO must inform the PSM focal points of the Global Fund/Health Implementation Support Team and request clearance to approach commercial long-term agreement (LTA) holders. Further information on current LTA holders and applicable SOPs can be found here.
Upon receiving clearance from the Global Fund/Health Implementation Support Team, COs are obligated to solicit quotes from all commercial LTA contract holders selected for the category of supplies. Within seven working days, the Global Fund/Health Implementation Support Team must evaluate the offers before the purchase orders (POs) can be issued by the CO.
The above-mentioned conditions do not apply to the purchase of Coartem and Coartem Dispersible, produced by Novartis (UNDP COs are to purchase Coartem and Coartem Dispersible directly via the active LTA between UNDP and Novartis).
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