Refer to ICT components that can no longer perform their intended function due to loss of compatibility with other ICT systems or failing to meet standards. Obsolete components cannot and should not be used UNDP ICT environments. For example, hardware becomes obsolete when it is unable to efficiently run a minimal version of UNDP standard software. Software becomes obsolete when it is unable to integrate with other ICT infrastructure components or it is no longer able to run on hardware with minimum supported configuration defined in this document.
A staff member or a group of staff members who are designated with an authority for acquiring, creating, maintaining and disposing of information and corresponding ICT systems as well as to make operational, strategic, financial or human resource decisions in the corresponding office (e.g. Director of the Bureau or Office, Deputy Director, Resident Representative, Country Director or Operations Manager, etc).
Refers to the financial contribution to a government budget, managed in a national account by a government entity for a specific set of sector or programme results.
The signatory is a person who can be uniquely identified and linked to an electronic signature and who has the sole control over the password-authentication key related to the electronic signature. An electronic signature can only be attributed to the person that owns and places the electronic signature in a record and is not attached to the function occupied by the signatory at the time of the placing of the signature. Since the electronic signature is personal, it cannot be shared.
Categories of costs of a cross-cutting nature that (a) involve material capital
investments, or (b) do not represent a cost related to the management activities of the organization.
Unified and approved approach to achieve highest integration with overall UNDP IT infrastructure and services. UNDP will consider standards as the most commonly used solution across the organization and therefore all future solutions will be aligned and based on standard configurations. It is strongly recommended that all offices use these standards as the base for their IT infrastructure and services.
Up to 2013, there was one type of contract used for EU contributions channelled through the UN, called the Standard Contribution Agreement (SCA) with international organizations. Since 2013, in addition to this, the use of the EU Grant Contract was introduced.