May 10, 2023 -
The IPSA policy has been amended to remove inconsistencies in the approval authority for direct recruitments, and clarified the performance evaluation process.
January 15, 2023 -
The International Personnel Services Agreement (IPSA) policy has been reformatted and amended in the following areas:
- Clarification of general conditions and legal status of IPSAs
- Clarification of selection process for different types of IPSAs
- Duration of regular and short-term IPSAs
- Provisions related to issuance of regular IPSAs
- Clarification that IPSAs are not Internal candidates for UNDP staff vacancies
- Process for making modification to IPSA functions
- IPSA assig
May 10, 2023 -
The IPSA policy has been amended to remove inconsistencies in the approval authority for direct recruitments, and clarified the performance evaluation process.
January 15, 2023 -
The International Personnel Services Agreement (IPSA) policy has been reformatted and amended in the following areas:- Clarification of general conditions and legal status of IPSAs
- Clarification of selection process for different types of IPSAs
- Duration of regular and short-term IPSAs
- Provisions related to issuance of regular IPSAs
- Clarification that IPSAs are not Internal candidates for UNDP staff vacancies
- Process for making modification to IPSA functions
- IPSA assignment travel entitlements
- Conditions for parental leave for birth parents during the first year of the IPSA contract
- Conditions for IPSAs to take unpaid leave
- Confirmation that IPSAs can undertake detail assignments
January 09, 2023 -
The policy has been updated to reflect UNDP's transition to its new cloud-based management platform Quantum in January 2023, replacing its previous ATLAS system.
February 15, 2021 -
The International Personnel Services Agreement (IPSA) is a new policy which fills a gap in existing contractual modalities related to project-based international personnel.