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The Guidance Note on GMS (Indirect Costs) for International Financial Institutions (IFIs) has been revised to reflect that the GMS cost recovery rate applied for IFIs is based on the configuration of parties that enter into financing agreements with UNDP (and not on the ‘form’ or agreement template used). The revised guidance note further details that IFI preferential rates (5%) are applicable to financing agreements signed between UNDP and an IFI (or a tripartite agreement concluded by UNDP, IFI and the Government), where both of the following criteria apply:- UNDP anticipates signing fi ...

The Guidance Note on GMS (Indirect Costs) for International Financial Institutions (IFIs) has been revised to reflect that the GMS cost recovery rate applied for IFIs is based on the configuration of parties that enter into financing agreements with UNDP (and not on the ‘form’ or agreement template used). The revised guidance note further details that IFI preferential rates (5%) are applicable to financing agreements signed between UNDP and an IFI (or a tripartite agreement concluded by UNDP, IFI and the Government), where both of the following criteria apply:

- UNDP anticipates signing financing agreements of $50m or more in a calendar year with funding provided by the respective IFI, including through respective national governments; and

- The financing agreement is mainly to support the government’s implementation of sovereign loan or credit guarantees.

The UNDP Service Level Agreement (SLA) template has been updated as follows:  Paragraph 3 has been expanded to state that services provided under the SLA do not include the conducting of investigations related to the contractors, personnel or staff under a UNDP Letter of Agreement (LoA) with services limited to the Client related to or arising from any of the services provided.  The paragraph further indicates that if the client requests incidental legal and or investigations services, and UNDP agrees to provide them, these services will be subject to full cost recovery plu ...

The UNDP Service Level Agreement (SLA) template has been updated as follows:  

  • Paragraph 3 has been expanded to state that services provided under the SLA do not include the conducting of investigations related to the contractors, personnel or staff under a UNDP Letter of Agreement (LoA) with services limited to the Client related to or arising from any of the services provided.  The paragraph further indicates that if the client requests incidental legal and or investigations services, and UNDP agrees to provide them, these services will be subject to full cost recovery plus reimbursement of all actual costs and expenses incurred by UNDP, without the need for a separate agreement.
  • Paragraph 4 has been expanded to specify: 1) Appendix I to the SLA template shall apply to Partner Personnel Services Agreement (PPSA) services only; 2) In the event of a conflict between any term of Appendix I and the main body of the SLA, Appendix I shall prevail with respect to such PPSA services only.  
  • Paragraph 5 has been updated to clarify that a request or requests for PPSA services shall be processed in accordance with Appendix I.
  • Paragraph 6 has noted options for the calculation of direct cost recovery: UPL/LPL, GSSC Cost Recovery List, or the cost recovery rates for PPSA services as indicated in Appendix I.

Further guidance on preparing service bills to projects and recovering service costs (DES/DPC) is now available. The Zero Dollar Invoice (ZDI) shall be used for initial entries and subsequent correcting entries shall be done in the original invoices.

The following user guides are now published in the procedure steps:

Step 8 – User Guide on DES (DPC) Entries in Quantum: How to perform invoice adjustment on processed PO invoice, How to adjust Distribution information (or COA) and Project Segment in Non-PO Invoices.

Step 9 – Guidance on DPC Exception Report

The SCA dashboard has been linked in a new step 9 of the UN Services Procedure. Country offices and business units can now monitor and resolve the SCA rejections in a timely manner. 

The SCA dashboard has been linked in a new step 9 of the UN Agency Services Procedure. Country offices and business units can now monitor and resolve the SCA rejections in a timely manner. 

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.

Following the launch of zero-dollar invoices in the Quantum payables module to support cost-recovery including delivery enabling services (DES) costs (formerly known as direct project costs (DPC)) and replace former GLJE capabilities, the Guidance Note on GMS Setup in Quantum has been updated in step 2 of the procedures to reflect this.  

Planning and Paying for Delivery Enabling Services to Projects and Use of UPL and LPL policies and procedures have been updated to reflect the zero-dollar invoices which have been launched in the Quantum payables module to support cost-recovery including delivery enabling services (DES) costs (formerly known as direct project costs (DPC)) and replace former GLJE capabilities. In Planning and Paying for Delivery Enabling Services to Projects, a new User Guide for DES (DPC) Entries in Quantum is published in step 3 of the procedures and the User Guide on DPC Account Codes in this procedure step ...

Planning and Paying for Delivery Enabling Services to Projects and Use of UPL and LPL policies and procedures have been updated to reflect the zero-dollar invoices which have been launched in the Quantum payables module to support cost-recovery including delivery enabling services (DES) costs (formerly known as direct project costs (DPC)) and replace former GLJE capabilities. In Planning and Paying for Delivery Enabling Services to Projects, a new User Guide for DES (DPC) Entries in Quantum is published in step 3 of the procedures and the User Guide on DPC Account Codes in this procedure step has been updated. The explanatory notes in procedure step 3, step 3.1. and step 5 have been modified to reflect the updates. In Use of UPL and LPL, a User Guide for DES (DPC) Entries in Quantum is published in step 8 of the procedures and the policy has been updated to reflect this. The User Guide on DPC Account Codes in this procedure step has also been updated The Visual Guide on Cost Recovery has also been modified to reflect all updates.

​As GLJE will not be used in Quantum, references to GLJE have been removed from procedure step 8.

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