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Prepare and Negotiate Advance Payment Mechanism

The advance payment mechanism allows the Global Fund to approve a list of expenditures the Principal Recipient (PR) may incur before grant signing. Expenditures agreed to between the Global Fund and the PR during grant negotiations will be reimbursed when the Grant Agreement has been signed and the first disbursement has been released. The PR includes the approved grant making expenditures in the final grant budget.

To utilize the pre-allocation budget, a UNDP initiation plan shall be prepared and approved by the Local Project Appraisal Committee (LPAC), and a project established in Quantum (the same project to be used for grant implementation). Refer to section on Principal Recipient start-up for detailed guidance on pre-allocation budgets and UNDP initiation plan.

Pre-allocation activities must be funded from a Country Office (CO)’s own resources (such as Target for Resource assignment from the core (TRAC)) until subsequent reimbursement from the Global Fund. The project budget will thus initially include both sources on funding: UNDP fund code and Global Fund fund code. Upon receipt of Global Fund reimbursement, previously incurred expenses will be reversed in Quantum from the originally recorded fund code to the Global Fund fund code.

Procedures should be as follows:

  1. If possible, the reversals should be done per each transaction. If, however, too many transactions are involved, the option of a lump sum through one reversal could be considered, with the detail of all transactions maintained for reference.
  2. Any outstanding advances issued to Sub-recipients (SRs) should also be reversed by amending the initial invoice, unless otherwise instructed by OFM or GSSC.
  3. Once the expenditures and outstanding advances have been reversed, the CO/PR should then proceed to reverse/zero out the budget under the UNDP fund code.

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