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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
Global Fund Funding Decisions and Disbursements
The Global Fund annual funding decision is the process of determining and setting aside grant funds to be disbursed on a staggered basis to the Principal Recipient (PR). Each annual funding decision includes the total amount that may be disbursed over a specified 12-month period (the “execution period”), and may include a buffer that typically is not disbursed within the execution period.
Funds remaining from a prior annual funding decision may be disbursed, with additional signoff, for up to six months after the period which the buffer amount was intended to cover (“buffer period’’) in cases when there are delays in processing the Progress Update/Disbursement Request (PU/DR) for the next annual funding decision. Any funds not disbursed from the current annual funding decision must be reapproved as part of the subsequent annual funding decision.
Specifically, the Global Fund Policy on Annual Disbursement and Commitment Decision (ADCD) is as follows:
- Grants will be on ADCD with semi-annual reporting cycles. (Midway through the year, the PR will submit a Progress Update (PU) for the first semester. At year-end, the PR will submit a full PU/PR which includes a PU for the last semester and a DR for the next 12 months plus buffer.)
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The ADCD schedule should align with the progress reporting period – for UNDP, the calendar year.
- The PR to submit a Disbursement Request supported by detailed cash forecast for annual disbursement plus a buffer period of 3 or 6 months.
- CO/PRs need to engage Senior Programme Advisors (SPAs) on ADCD and cash transfer negotiations.
Practice PointerGlobal Fund proposed, by default, phased cash transfers for 6 +6+3 months to its PRs i.e. 1st transfer for Jan–June, 2nd transfer for July–Dec and 3rd transfer for buffer Jan–March the following year. The Global Fund plans to move towards quarterly disbursements.
The issue of the 6 months’ buffer will only be considered on an exceptional basis to cover procurement requirements. In such circumstances the 6+6+3+3 months cash transfers would be considered.
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