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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
Storage Facilities
Existing national storage facilities/warehousing system and distribution mechanisms for health products are the logistics channels of choice for UNDP programmes if they are adequate or if deficiencies can be remedied during the implementation of the programme. If these channels do not meet the necessary standards, storage facilities run by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), other UN agencies, or international organizations may be a viable alternative. It may also be possible to use private facilities and distribution networks run by commercial companies while national systems are being improved. sector institutions, including teaching hospitals, clinical laboratories, and other not-for-profit private Institutions.
Situation 1: the medical store(s) are directly managed by UNDP CO
UNDP COs must ensure that good storage practices according to WHO Good Storage and Distribution Practices (GSDP) is implemented in the store.
Situation 2 (most common): the medical stores(s) are managed by an external entity (e.g., Ministry of Health or service provider)
UNDP COs must ensure that good storage and distribution practices, according to WHO GSDP, are included or referred to in the agreement (i.e GF Sub-Recipient agreement) or service contract with the entity.
In the context of Global Fund projects, or if UNDP is responsible for the storage of health products, the UNDP CO should ensure that the facilities are secure and compliant with storage requirement in WHO’s Good Storage and Distribution Practices.
At a minimum, it is expected that UNDP CO:
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Perform a formal assessment of storage conditions in storage entities that have a contract with UNDP CO (usually the CMS, but sometimes also some intermediate stores) on an annual basis (this verification is done using a standardized supervision form – see Storage and Inventory Management Checklist issued by GFPHST). The Checklist is also available in French.).
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Perform assessment of storage conditions during supervision visits in a selection of other stores (intermediate and peripheral) used in the project, on an annual basis.
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A more thorough assessment (covering a higher number of facilities) could also be funded with funds allocated in the grant, if any.
These assessments should be done jointly with a representative of the NRA (or other designated government entity responsible for GSDP standards) and the recommendations compiled in a report and implementation monitored by the NRA (or other designated government entity).
To support UNDP COs with engaging the CMS either through a SR Agreement or through a Service Contract, GFPHST issued a guidance note. The guidance note is available in English and French.