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The Entitlements upon Separation policy is slightly revised to update the process for requesting an advance against separation payments.

5 April 2024

Fellowship

The link to the UNDESA Stipend Rates for Fellows and Scholars in articles 25.a. and 26.a. of the policy has been updated to reflect stipend rates as of January 2024.

The policy has been updated to remove references to actual amounts of danger pay, as these are periodically updated by the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC). The updated policy now refers to the ICSC website for current amounts, which were recently revised effective 1 January 2024. In addition, the policy update clarifies the eligibility for danger pay while telecommuting from a location outside the duty station (paragraph 5) and danger pay applicable to local staff on official duty travel outside the country of their duty station (paragraph 11).

The Home Leave policy has been updated with minor edits to align with relevant changes in the UN Staff Rules, while updating references and gender-neutralizing the language (no substantive change).

The policy has been reviewed with minor edits implemented (no substantive change).  

30 January 2024

Types of Leave

The Sick Leave policy has been revised to incorporate the relevant changes in UN Staff Rules. In particular, the conversion of approved annual leave days to certified sick leave, for illness during leave, no longer requires a minimum duration of five days (see paragraph 31).

22 January 2024

Internship

The explanatory notes in Step 8 of the Internship procedure have been updated to clarify that the OHR Policy and compensation unit will periodically publish a schedule of stipends/remote stipends by duty station. 

This update is to extend the duration of the Service Contract policy to 30 June 2024 to cover the transitional period of partner personnel currently on Service Contracts who will transition to Partner Personnel Services Agreement on 30 June 2024. UNDP personnel previously on service contracts have already transitioned to national/international personnel services agreements in accordance with the national personnel services agreement policy and with the international personnel services agreement policy, as applicable.

This update is to extend the date of transition of partner personnel currently on Service Contracts to Partner Personnel Service Agreement from 31 December 2023 to 30 June 2024.

23 September 2023

Fellowship

Minor typos were corrected in the Fellowship Agreement Template. The Certificate of Completion of Fellowship Assignment has been added to step 13 of the procedures. The Externally-Sponsored Fellowship Undertaking Letter has been added to step 8 of the procedures. The content of the UNDP-sponsored Fellowship Undertaking Letter has been corrected to align it with the Fellowship Policy.