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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
- 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
In-vitro Diagnostic (IVD) Products
All diagnostic products procured through UNDP health procurement support must be 1) in conformity with WHO guidance (e.g., WHO Essential Diagnostic List - EDL), 2) consistent with relevant national laboratory policies and strategic plans, 3) take into account harmonized and standardized practices (e.g., national testing algorithms), 4) consider the physical infrastructure and biosafety level of the laboratory, 5) must take into account the structure, functioning and capacity of the laboratory system (human resources, network, communication system, and specimen transport systems at and between each level of service), and 6) be effectively coordinated with laboratory services and other funding sources.
For entities submitting requests to UNDP for the procurement of diagnostic products that are not included WHO guidance, the requests should be supported by an appropriate justification with supporting evidence (e.g., National Testing Algoritm). These will be assessed by the UNDP QA Expert Committee to determine compliance with UNDP’s general principles for the procurement of health products. Such requests should be submitted to the GFPHST Senior Health PSM Advisor through the GFPHST HPM Specialist focal point.
All diagnostic products must be procured using their generic name or description. Where 1) a National validated testing algorithm, or 2) Closed equipment testing systems that require reagents and consumables that are specific to a diagnostic platform, or 3) National standardized and harmonized practices exists, it may be permissible to procure using a brand (proprietary) name and/or specific product catalogue number. Using no or restricted competition requires prior approval from GFPHST HPM Specialists and, when grant funds are being used, from the Global Fund.
While WHO has recommended diagnostic and testing algorithms for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), malaria and hepatitis, and these can be helpful to governments as reference for the development of national guidelines, it is important that national algorithms are established and are tailored to local requirements, ensuring national ownership of the guidelines.
Additional guidance to support this area of work are also available through a number of resources listed below: