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Non-Core Contributions

Effective Date

Jan 11, 2021

Summary of Changes

​​The Non-Core Contributions policy is now available in Spanish. To access the document, click on the Spanish language tab.

Engaging CSO/NGO as a Responsible Party

Effective Date

Jan 12, 2021

Summary of Changes
The Engaging CSO/NGO as a Responsible Party policy is now available in French. To access the document, click on the French language tab.

General Considerations of Contracting

Effective Date

Jan 12, 2021

Summary of Changes
The General Considerations of Contracting policy is now available in French. To access the document, click on the French language tab.

Individual Contract

Effective Date

Jan 12, 2021

Summary of Changes
The Security Charges to Individual Contracts policy is now available in French. The document is linked under related policies on the Individual Contract page, section 2.0.

Private Sector Partnerships

Effective Date

Jan 13, 2021

Summary of Changes

​The 2020 MoU templates are now available in English, French, and Spanish. They are linked in step 1 of the Formalizing private sector partnerships through MOU procedures on the Private Sector Partnerships policy page.

Internal Control Framework

Effective Date

Jan 15, 2021

Summary of Changes

​Updates to the ICF Operational Guide provide additional clarity on the responsibilities for monitoring budget overrides, and overseeing override match exception functions. Additional sentences have been added on override match exceptions to page 39 and on monitoring of budget overrides to pages 16, 22 and 23.

Safe Management

Effective Date

Jan 18, 2021

Summary of Changes

​Additional guidance has been captured in the Safe Management policy for the Safe Deposit Lockbox for the purpose of off-site storage of IT devices.

US Letter of Credit (LOC) Agreements

Effective Date

Jan 19, 2021

Summary of Changes

​The US Letter of Credit (LOC) Agreements policy and accompanying guidelines have been updated as follows:

  • For USAID, there are sometimes contributions to support GEF, Covid-19 and other activities. The policy and related guidance previously limited funds to fund codes 30000 and 16610 for LOC contribution. Therefore, the policy and related guidance were updated to include fund codes for these other activities.
  • The DUNS number: 793511262 was replaced with DUNS number: 645521498. DUNS: 645521498 is the official DUNS number for UNDP which is used by UNDP Business Units applying for a USAID Grant.


  • Depreciation, Reconciliations Reports and Centralized Functions (Furniture and Equipment)

    Effective Date

    Jan 27, 2021

    Summary of Changes

    ​​Publishing errors in the policy have been corrected.

    Direct Payments

    Effective Date

    Jan 29, 2021

    Summary of Changes

    ​The Direct Payments policy and procedures have been further updated as follows: Guidance has been added to Para 2 on the ICE template. ICE template guidance has been added to procedure step 1. Fraud red-flags guidance have been added to procedure step 9.

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