Dec 14, 2018
The new Partner Capacity Assessment tool was added to step 3.0 of the procedures, replacing other assessments that are part of the streamlined tool.
Dec 14, 2018
Contract Management Guidelines (including updates on contract amendments and LTAs) have been added to the Contract Management main policy page. They are linked in step 1 of the Contract Management procedure table.
Dec 14, 2018
Notes for the Ex-Ante in Section 54 of the Procurement Oversight and Procurement Review Committees policy was updated to reflect streamlining measures recently set forth by the Bureau of Management Services that provide exemptions from the need to submit for ex-ante review for successful previous experience and repetitive country specific (local) LTAs for country office operations supports such as for travel, security, and cleaning services, as there is sufficient specific corporate guidance and templates on the procurement of the said goods/services.
Dec 14, 2018
Section 79.e. of the Procurement Methods policy was updated to reflect streamlining measures recently set forth by the Bureau of Management Services that provide exemptions from the need to submit for ex-ante review for successful previous experience and repetitive country specific (local) LTAs for country office operations supports such as for travel, security, and cleaning services, as there is sufficient specific corporate guidance and templates on the procurement of the said goods/services.
Dec 17, 2018
Section 8 of the Financial Closure of Development Projects was updated to specify that before the status of a project is changed to financially closed, the eChecklist from Atlas Project Closure Workbench must be completed.
Dec 20, 2018
Step 6 of the GMS Fee Set-up and Collection procedure table was updated with the most recent link to the actual effective GMS PowerBI report, derived from actual GL expenses posted to projects. The link appears in the Explanatory Notes column.
Jan 17, 2019
Section 7 of the Cost Recovery from Other Resources - General Management Support (GMS) policy was updated to reflect that regarding agencies’ contribution to RCO activities, GMS should be applied in line with the corporate cost recovery policy, since the 2016 Advisory note for the UNDG Cost Sharing Funds for the RC system no longer applies and is hereby revoked as of 1 January 2019.
Jan 31, 2019
UNDP offices can now monitor actual revenues earned from provisions of SLA/MOU or UPL/LPL services through the Corporate Agency Services Revenue Report. A link to this newly developed report has been added to the Explanatory Notes column under step 11 of the Universal Price List (UPL) and Local Price List (LPL) procedure table.
Mar 15, 2019
The new Knowledge Product Production and Quality Assurance policy has been published under the Programming Standards chapter of the PPM. The policy and procedures apply to all knowledge products produced by UNDP where UNDP is a co-author. They also introduce a new online process and requirements for the publication of knowledge products, while shortening the steps required for clearance. In addition to the policy and procedures, the related guidelines: Knowledge Product Production Guidelines have been published in the procedures. The document offers in-depth information on different knowledge product types, life cycle steps, production processes, and quality assurance standards.
Mar 01, 2019
Fund code 32050 has been issued for Development Services. This is noted in step 4 of the Development Services procedures, section 3.0 of the main policy page. Please note that GMS needs to be charged for Development Services at the same rate it is charged for regular development projects.
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