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The Operational Guide for the Implementation of the UNDP Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Policy (AML/CFT Policy) has been updated to incorporate adjustments in the Counterparty Information Form (CIF) – Entities by providing clarifications in the CIF’s footnotes, adding tick-boxes on beneficial ownership and a signature block, as well as a reference on the CIF’s confidentiality in the document’s footer.

The AML/CFT Operational Guide supplements the UNDP AML/CFT Policy and provides detailed procedures and guidance for the implementation of the policy across UNDP. The Operational Guide specifies roles and responsibilities in the vetting process, including escalation procedures and available corporate tools.

​The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Policy (“AML/CFT Policy”) provides a comprehensive approach to identifying, addressing and managing AML/CFT risks across UNDP. The policy affirms UNDP’s continued commitment to combating money laundering and terrorist financing, by complementing, reiterating, and cataloguing the safeguards and measures that UNDP has in place in this regard. This policy is a part of a broader set of policies aimed at ensuring that UNDP funds are used for the purposes intended....

​The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Policy (“AML/CFT Policy”) provides a comprehensive approach to identifying, addressing and managing AML/CFT risks across UNDP. The policy affirms UNDP’s continued commitment to combating money laundering and terrorist financing, by complementing, reiterating, and cataloguing the safeguards and measures that UNDP has in place in this regard. This policy is a part of a broader set of policies aimed at ensuring that UNDP funds are used for the purposes intended.
 

To access the French and Spanish versions of the policy, click on the respective language tab.
 

The Managing Risks Across UNDP Programming and Operations: Guidance Note was updated to include:

  • the new digital risk assessment tools
  • links to the project and programme risk dashboards to support high risks monitoring including mitigation measures
  • portfolio level risk management

Following the introduction of the new Portfolio Policy, the Visual Guide: Enterprise Risk Management has been updated to reflect portfolio level risk management process and escalation. 

Following the introduction of the new Portfolio Policy and the Portfolio Document Template, the Offline Risk Register Template has been updated to reflect the portfolio as a new delivery instrument.

The Risk Appetite Statement, the Risk Appetite Statement Guidance, the Project Risk Register Template, the Risk Escalation Guideline, the Examples of Financial Quantification of Identified Risk and the Managing Risks Across UNDP Programming and Operations: Guidance Note are now available in French and in Spanish:

The Managing Risks Across Progamming and Operations Guidance Note is published as a related document in the policy page.

The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) policy has been amended to introduce text to the policy regarding: (i) a Corporate Vetting Committee (the Risk Committee), relating to the implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering / Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) policy; (ii) the Senior Designated Officer (SDO) and Chief Risk Officer; and (iii) a revised Summary Table of UNDP Risk Management Roles and Responsibilities. The policy amendments also include text to emphasize the need for coherent and harmonized approach across UNDP’s programme and operations on risk management.