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Home Leave

Effective Date

Apr 25, 2013

Summary of Changes

​Changes to the home leave travel entitlement include eligibility for staff on Temporary Appointments, enabling shorter intervals between home leaves for duty stations on a 12 month cycle, and clarification on travel time and calculation when combining home leave with reassignment travel.

Information Disclosure

Effective Date

Feb 18, 2014

Summary of Changes

​The Information Disclosure Policy now includes requirements for “robust reasoning” to exclude information from the public domain. Amendments have been benchmarked against international best practice.

Protection against Retaliation

Effective Date

Mar 07, 2014

Summary of Changes

The Policy for Protection against Retaliation has been expanded to include protection for non-staff personnel such as contractors, interns and UNVs serving in UNDP or another UNDP administered fund, programme or agency.​

Financial Disclosure

Effective Date

Mar 07, 2014

Summary of Changes

This Policy has been revised so non-staff personnel, such as contractors, may be required to file a financial disclosure statement, in accordance with the standards of conduct incorporated into the contract.​

Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT)

Effective Date

Feb 13, 2015

Summary of Changes

The revised HACT prescriptive content operationalizes the inter agency agreed HACT framework (2014) in UNDP. It clarifies relevant processes/procedures in UNDP as well as provides additional clarifications of UNDP-specific requirements for the purpose of implementing the UNDG-approved revised HACT framework in UNDP. This prescriptive content shall be read in conjunction with the revised HACT framework (including all appendices) issued by UNDG as well as the UNDP NIM/NEX Manual issued in July 2011.​

Refunds to Donors

Effective Date

Mar 18, 2015

Summary of Changes

​This policy introduced the following new text as part of required procedures to refund to donors. "The AP voucher must be processed as soon as practicable after the transfer of funds to account 21030 and after the donor provides written confirmation of its bank account details."​

UN Clinics

Effective Date

Apr 22, 2015

Summary of Changes

This policy covers management and operation of UN Clinics that are administered by UNDP on behalf of UN Common System organizations. This policy outlines the minimum standards for the establishment of UN Clinics which provide primary clinical and occupational health services to authorized UN Common System personnel and their recognized dependents. The UN Clinics policy and procedures clarify the provisions for the recruitment of UN clinic personnel; procuring and accounting; cost sharing mechanisms and management of the UN Clinics.​

Rest and Recuperation

Effective Date

Apr 29, 2015

Summary of Changes

The R&R eligibility criteria for ICs has been aligned with the IC policy.​

Medical Insurance: Medical Insurance Plan (MIP)

Effective Date

Apr 29, 2015

Summary of Changes

Cigna became the third party administrator for UNDP as of 1 April, 2015. New MIP application/request form, claim form and prior approval forms are also introduced. ​

National Implementation

Effective Date

May 08, 2015

Summary of Changes

The revision reflects that the HACT macro- and micro-assessments is the basis for selection of the cash transfer modality used for each implementing partner (IP) and the level of assurance activities used for the IP. The revision also reflects UNDP support services to NIM in terms of requisitions, procurement and accountability. Audit reports of NIM and NGO implemented projects can be shared by UNDP with the Government Coordinating Agency, in addition to supreme audit institution and implementing partner. The audit becomes due in the year following which the cumulative expenditure has reached or exceeded the threshold of $300,000.​

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