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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
- UNDP Quality Assurance Policy
- 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
Waste management
Health Care Waste (HCW) is an inevitable byproduct of providing services to the population. If not managed properly, HCW can cause unintended harm to human health as well as significant environmental damage. Safe and sustainable HCW management (HCWM) should be seen as an integral part of the procurement and supply chain management of health products, rather than as an add-on or afterthought. UNDP COs are encouraged to incorporate sustainable HCWM practices into their projects and should ensure budgeting of these activities during project planning.
Waste management of health products falls under the overall responsibility of the national Ministry of Health and/or Ministry of Environment. Applicable laws and regulations (i.e National waste management policy) should be known to UNDP CO PSM specialist(s). When UNDP COs are involved in waste management of health products, all activities should be in full compliance with national regulations (if they exist).
UNDP COs should ensure the safe disposal of unusable (e.g., damaged, expired) and used (e.g., used RDTs, laboratory waste) health products, using methods that involve minimal risks to public health and the environment. Guidance is provided in WHO-related guidelines. UNDP CO are involved in health products waste management in the following cases: 1) Disposal of rejected health products at their reception in country (for instance due to confirmed or suspected quality issues, incorrect specifications), or 2) Disposal of expired or obsolete health products that were procured by UNDP CO.
The preferred mode of disposal is incineration at high temperatures with double combustion. For each country, it will be important that UNDP CO identify a site for disposal of the health products (that could be, for example, a cement factory with high temperature combustion facility) or support (if budget allows) in procuring an incinerator, supporting the development of SOPs, and ensuring a mechanism is in-place to sustain operation of the incinerator beyond the project lifespan.
Once products have been destroyed, UNDP COs should obtain a copy of the destruction certificate, signed by the NRA and other partners involved, and should prepare a disposal report with the quantities of products, the reasons for expiry and/or disposal, and measures taken to avoid similar situations in the future.
Practice PointerUNDP guidance on medicines waste management is detailed in the UNDP online PSM training, Module on Waste Management.
Additional information developed by the Global Fund can also be found here.
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