Apr 25, 2013
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.
Apr 19, 2013
The threshold on the corporate purchasing card has been increased from $2500 to $5000, excluding expenditures for PPE. Regarding furniture and equipment, UNDSS assets are no longer recorded as UNDP Assets and only UNDP’s share of assets purchased under common service arrangements will be recorded in UNDP’s books. The procurement catalogue provides guidance to ensure appropriate recording.
Mar 14, 2011
The Results Management and Accountability chapter has been updated with the revised anti-fraud policy which now replaces the UNDP fraud policy statement of August 2005 and brings, in one place, currently dispersed policies and practices.
Mar 11, 2011
Feb 24, 2011
Assets Management section of Administrative Support Services chapter has been updated with the Project Assets Management. The process establishes procedures and systems to ensure compliance with the UNDP Financial Rules and Regulations and to ensure accurate reporting of all non-expendable (fixed) project assets. As stated in the UNDP Financial Regulations and Rules, the management of fixed assets includes all actions necessary for the acquisition and receipt, custody, maintenance and disposal of non-expendable assets which are controlled and safeguarded by UNDP. This includes the timely and proper location, tracking and record-keeping of all related transactions. The compliance with the procedures is an auditable requirement.
Feb 16, 2011
Financial Resources Management chapter has been updated with procedures for UNFCU Share Account Management . The procedures cover the services offered by UNDP to locally recruited staff opting to take deductions from local currency salary, convert them to US Dollars, and have them paid into a savings account held by UNFCU in New York in their name. This service provided by UNDP is limited to salary and does not cover other types of remuneration (e.g., DSA, shipment compensations, etc.). The deductions for local salary scales may not exceed 50% of the gross salary of the participating staff member.
Jul 15, 2010
Version 4 of the Internal Control Framework policy now can be accessed through the Results Management and Accountability chapter. The updated version incorporates 1) New introduction to encapsulate the attributes and components of internal control as is best practice, taking full consideration of all existing control processes in UNDP. The new introduction follows more closely the COSO internal control model, and is therefore very broad in its coverage of administrative and programmatic areas. 2) The Operational Guide of the ICF, to better reflect its level of detail.
Mar 23, 2010
Sep 14, 2009
The NEX Task Force is finalizing the following procedures: i) selection of implementing arrangements; ii) selection of implementing partners, including capacity assessments and a clarification of the distinction between systemic capacity assessment and implementation capacity assessment; iii) project appraisal; and iv) clarification of accountability under different implementing arrangements, of implementing partners, and for UNDP as a responsible party.
These revisions will be accompanied by the release of a printed version of procedures for implementation by national governments (i.e. ‘NIM’). These are scheduled for launch in the fourth quarter of 2009 after approval by senior management.
Jul 03, 2009
Procedures for management of pass-through fund when UNDP is the Administrative Agent.
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