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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
Sub-sub-recipient Engagement
At times, the Sub-recipient (SR) may itself want to outsource a specific activity to another entity, which becomes a Sub-sub-recipient (SSR). The UNDP Country Office (CO) maintains overall responsibility for all SSR activities and should review and approve all SSR agreements, as SSR appointments carry high risks for UNDP. Prior to approving an SSR agreement, the UNDP CO should ensure that the SR has performed a capacity assessment of the prospective SSR, using a methodology acceptable to UNDP (such as the UNDP template) and that the assessment is positive. If the assessment is negative, the SR should not engage the SSR. It is important to stress that SSRs should contribute to a specific component mentioned in the SR agreement and should not be used as vehicles to circumvent UNDP procurement rules.

As a best practice, UNDP COs should be involved in the SSR capacity assessment, which should use the same format and style as the SR capacity assessment.
The UNDP CO should carefully review the use of SSRs to carry out some of the activities stipulated in the SR agreement. The CO should also ensure that there is a sound rationale for using an SR as a conduit for funds to an SSR. The same rules that apply to working with SRs apply to working with SSRs:
- The SR–SSR agreement should carry the same terms as the SR agreement;
- Potential SSRs should be assessed by the SR; and
- UNDP procurement rules also apply to SSRs, and procurement should not be delegated to SSRs.
If an SSR is appointed, the UNDP CO is required to monitor the SR’s management of the SSR. This monitoring should be a key component of the CO risk management plan and should be covered in the SR agreement.
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