United Nations Development Programme

Pipeline Management
Introducing the ATLAS pipeline management module
What is pipeline management?

Pipeline: “The totality of planned programmes, projects, and

initiatives that UNDP units/offices are expected to pursue
within a foreseeable time in the future.”

Pipeline Management:

Maturing of
Development of
Identification of proposals into
ideas into project
new ideas fully formed
proposals
projects
Why is pipeline management so
important?

Pipeline management supports two key objectives:

• Strategic – it ensures that that UNDP remains focused and

the programme portfolio globally, regionally and locally is
consistently framed within the Strategic Plan.

• Financial – it enhances the ability of UNDP to leverage and

maximize various partnerships and opportunities for
development financing. It also contributes to ensuring
financial sustainability of the organization through enabling
better informed and more accurate resources projections
and making necessary adjustments in internal resource
planning.
 Budgeting over multiple years under Project level co-financing
UNDP Strategic Plan National Priorities UNDAF CPD

D e v e l o p m e n t R e s u l t s

Pipeline
As reflected in PRODOC & subsequent re-phasing budget revisions – Substantive budget revisions (+$)
activities/inputs
Output A Year Year Total $ Output
Approved

A $
1 2
Project

Output B Year Year Year Total $

1 2 3
Output
Output C Year Year Total $ C $
2 3

new Project Year

Pipeline Year Year Total $
(maturity class A)
1 2 3

T o t a l $ f o r p l a n n i n g, p r o g r a m m i n g abnudd g e t i ng
How will the Pipeline Management
module help us achieve these goals?

Country Offices will benefit from:

• a system to manage new projects from ideation to the signing of the
project document
• a corporately-endorsed methodology for predicting volume of future
projects and income
• a common reporting platform for resource planning

Regional Bureaux will benefit from:

• a systematic capture of Country Office pipeline information
• a standardized methodology of assessing pipeline maturity
• a system to link pipeline outputs and show alignment to the new
Strategic Plan
• a common reporting platform for resource planning
How can we access the Pipeline
Management module in Atlas?

Linking Pipeline to the Strategic Plan Link pipeline

outputs to relevant
SP Outcome and
Corporate Output
How do we test the maturity of our
pipeline?

Criteria
1. Demand for services
2. Enabling environment
3. Availability of UNDP
substantive expertise
4. Availability of critical
partners?
5. Degree of
development
Questions + -
Evidence of need for project?
Evidence of conducive local environment?
Risks?
Within a UNDP core area of expertise?
Implementing partner/s? Substantive
partner/s? Funding partners?
Defined project strategy, results &
activities

Maturity level
Class A Class B Class C captured in
Hard Pipeline Soft Pipeline Ideas Atlas
 How can resource projections be derived
from pipeline data?

Discounting dependent on maturity

Project Projected budget Adjusting Revised non- Cost-recovery Delivery Projected XB

(broken down by year) factor in non- core value Rate rate (GMS) earning
core (broken down
Core Non-core
(broken down by year)
by year)

Class A pipe Inputted Inputted value 10% Calculated 7% Inputted Calculated

line projects value 3% value
8%
Exceptions

Class B pipe Inputted value Inputted value 30% to 50% Calculated 7% Inputted Calculated
line projects 3% value
8%
Exceptions

Class C pipe Inputted value Inputted value 70% Calculated 7% Inputted Calculated
line projects 3% value
8%
Exceptions
What information is being captured by the
Pipeline Management module?

Assigning maturity level and identifying funding sources

Assign maturity
level Identify potential
funding sources
What reports do we have today?

Pipeline Summary Report

What reports do we have today?

Pipeline Detail Report

Resources By SP Outcome and Bureau

Pipeline Detail Report

What other Pipeline Management reports
do we need?

We need your
feedback –
what kind of
reports do you
need?