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09 January 2026

Financial Closure of Development Projects and Trust Funds

This Operational Guidelines: Project Financial Closure have been revised to simplify requirements, clarify roles and enable faster processing of project financial closure — reducing the administrative burden for Country Offices (COs) while ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant project closure. These changes reinforce compliance and operational efficiency across the organization.

09 January 2026

UN Agency Services

The UNDP Service Level Agreement (SLA) template has been updated to reflect the following revisions:...

The UNDP Service Level Agreement (SLA) template has been updated to reflect the following revisions:

  • Centralization of Payroll and HR Administration Services: Effective 1 January 2025, payroll and HR administration services are no longer provided by UNDP at the local or country level. These services have been centralized under BMS/GSSC. As a result, BMS/GSSC now enters into separate corporate Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with UN Entities for payroll and select HR administration services. All references to these services have been removed from the UNDP SLA template and its Annex 1 to reflect this change.
  • Centralized Partner Personnel Services Agreement (PPSA): PPSA services are now provided centrally by the BMS/GSSC and BMS/OHR. A separate corporate SLA is established with UN Entities for PPSA services. Consequently, all references to PPSA services—specifically in Paragraphs 4 and 5(b), Appendix I—have been removed from the UNDP SLA template.
  • Clarification of Client Responsibilities on Ethics Matters: The section outlining client responsibilities for ethics inquiries related to staff holding a UNDP Letter of Appointment (LOA) has been revised for greater clarity. Paragraph 11 (formerly Paragraph 10) now specifies that staff members with a UNDP LOA, whose service is limited to the client, must first direct all ethics-related inquiries to the client’s Ethics Office before approaching the UNDP Ethics Office.

07 January 2026

Salaries

The qualifying period has been technically revised to ensure alignment with the United Nations Staff Rules. Accordingly, the withholding provision has also been technically amended so that the same qualifying period applies.

06 January 2026

Travel Requirements

The title of the policy has been updated from ‘Inoculations and Malaria Prevention’ to ‘Vaccinations and Malaria Prevention’ to reflect the more commonly used terminology. References to specific geographic regions with malaria have been replaced with the broader term ‘regions where malaria is present’ to avoid unintended exclusions. Additionally, the link to the WHO guidance has been updated.

05 January 2026

Foundations

The Identifying and analyzing foundations for partnerships with UNDP procedure, Options for approaching potential foundation partners procedure, and Formalizing partnerships with foundations procedure are now available in French and in Spanish:

  • Identifying and analyzing foundations for partnerships with UNDP procedure: French | Spanish
  • Options for approaching potential foundation partners procedure: French | Spanish
  • Formalizing partnerships with foundations procedure: French | Spanish