1. Pipeline Management Introducing the ATLAS pipeline management module
United Nations Development Programme
Pipeline Management
Introducing the ATLAS pipeline management module

2. 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.”
Identification of new ideas
Development of ideas into project proposals
Maturing of proposals into fully formed projects
Pipeline Management:

3. 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.

4. 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
Substantive budget revisions (+$)
As reflected in PRODOC & subsequent re-phasing budget revisions – activities/inputs
Approved
Project
Output A
Year 1
Year 2
Total $
Output A $
Output B
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Total $
Output C
Output C
Year 2
Year 3
Total $ $
new Project (maturity class A)
Pipeline
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Total $
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 a n d
b u d g e t i ng

5. 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

6. Link pipeline outputs to relevant SP Outcome and Corporate Output
How can we access the Pipeline Management module in Atlas?
Link pipeline outputs to relevant SP Outcome and Corporate Output
Linking Pipeline to the Strategic Plan

7. Maturity level captured in Atlas
How do we test the maturity of our pipeline?
Criteria
Questions + -
1. Demand for services
Evidence of need for project?
2. Enabling environment
Evidence of conducive local environment? Risks?
3. Availability of UNDP substantive expertise
Within a UNDP core area of expertise?
4. Availability of critical partners?
Implementing partner/s? Substantive partner/s? Funding partners?
5. Degree of development
Defined project strategy, results & activities
Maturity level captured in Atlas
Class A
Class B
Class C
Hard Pipeline
Soft Pipeline
Ideas

8. How can resource projections be derived from pipeline data?
Discounting dependent on maturity
Project
Projected budget
(broken down by year)
Adjusting factor in non-core
Revised non-core value
Cost-recovery
Rate
Delivery rate
Projected XB (GMS) earning
Core
Non-core
Class A pipe line projects
Inputted value 
Inputted value
10%
Calculated 7% 3% 8%
Exceptions
Class B pipe line projects
30% to 50%
Class C pipe line projects
70%

9. Identify potential funding sources
What information is being captured by the Pipeline Management module?
Assigning maturity level and identifying funding sources
Assign maturity level
Identify potential funding sources

10. What reports do we have today?
Pipeline Summary Report

11. What reports do we have today?
Pipeline Detail Report

12. Resources By SP Outcome and Bureau
Pipeline Detail Report

13. What other Pipeline Management reports do we need?
We need your feedback – what kind of reports do you need?
Summaries of pipeline projects (substance and funding)
Non-core projections summary
XB projects summary
Pipeline maturity overview/dashboard