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​The Universal Price List (UPL) and Local Price List (LPL) main policy was updated to reflect that regarding agencies’ contribution to RCO activities, the 2016 Advisory note for the UNDG Cost Sharing Funds for the RC system no longer applies and is hereby revoked as of January 01, 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.

This Policy clarifies cost drivers of UPL for standard services and provides a step-by-step guide to formulate LPL. This also incorporates three main options for implementing DPC, which are:

  • application of the CO workload study results, combined with multiple funding lines for posts;

  • application of the Universal Price Lists (UPL) or Local Price List (LPL) for transactional costs recovery; and

  • creation and management of a stand-alone DPC project.​

  • ​Paragraph 15 (b) of the policy has been updated with the links in Step 3.2 of Formulate Development Projects procedures and in Step 1.1 of ‘Formulate Development and Institutional Effectiveness Project’ procedures of the Formulate Programmes & Projects policy. The links provide guidance on what are the direct costs and indirect costs that should be included as part of the project budget. This is ‘Prepare Fully Costed Budgets for Projects’ and ‘Annex 1’.

    ​The Harmonized Conceptual Funding Framework and Cost Recovery Methodology main policy is now available in Spanish. To access the document, click the Spanish language tab.

    New Guidance on UNDP’s Harmonized Funding Framework has been posted in POPP and reflects the joint decision of the Executive Board of UNDP/UNFPA, UNICEF and UNWOMEN to harmonize the classification and attribution of programme and organizational costs and highlights how this has been reflected in UNDP’s integrated budget. The harmonized framework covers the realignment of resources between Regular and Other Resources to help successfully deliver on the results outlined in UNDP’s Strategic Plan.​

    The Guidance Note on GMS Setup in Quantum has been revised to provide further details on Internal Funding (e.g. ASL Fund 11507, UNDP Fund 30084) that should set to enable the burdening and that the Zero-Dollar Invoice should be used to adjust under/over-charged GMS due to exchange rate differences. The revised Guidance Note on GMS Setup in Quantum has been published in Step 2 and Step 6 of the GMS Fee Set-up and Collection procedure.

    The Guidance Note on GMS setup in Quantum has been updated in procedure step 2 and step 6 to incorporate how to set up GMS share with COs for the global or regional projects, revising the GMS rate of a current project and impact of incorrect exchange rate applied to the GMS on payment in non-USD currency if using different Expenditure Item Date than the Invoice Date

     

    Step 6 of the GMS Fee Set-up and Collection procedure table was updated with the most recent hyperlink to the actual average GMS PowerBI report, derived from actual GL expenses posted to projects. The hyperlink appears in the Explanatory Notes column of the Step 6.

    ​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.