December 18, 2023 -
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.
January 11, 2023 -
The policy and procedures have been updated to reflect UNDP’s transition to its new cloud-based management platform Quantum in January 2023, replacing its previous ATLAS system.
February 26, 2021 -
The hyperlinks under clause 7 of the Service Clearance Account (SCA), Charging, Billing and Fee Collection pol
December 18, 2023 -
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.
January 11, 2023 -
The policy and procedures have been updated to reflect UNDP’s transition to its new cloud-based management platform Quantum in January 2023, replacing its previous ATLAS system.
February 26, 2021 -
The hyperlinks under clause 7 of the Service Clearance Account (SCA), Charging, Billing and Fee Collection policy, and in step 5 of the UN Agency Services procedure table have been replaced with the On Demand Jobaid for CRN Bill. The previous document, Atlas Ondemand site is no longer active.
April 20, 2020 -
The Service Clearance Account (SCA) Charging, Billing and Fee Collection main policy is now available in French. To access the document, click on the French language tab.
July 01, 2019 -
Effective 1st July 2019, two new activities have been automated and introduced in the agency billing system. The UPL section of POPP has been revised accordingly to reflect the new activities i.e. Activity 6 and Activity 7.
September 21, 2018 -
The Service Clearance Account (SCA) Charging, Billing and Fee Collection main policy is now available in Spanish. To access the document, click on the Spanish language tab.
July 03, 2018 -
The policy update reflects an additional fee row through the automated process as per the 2018 UPL. Activity4 Travel management simple (1 travel management simple + 1 payment fee).
December 15, 2017 -
The policy name has changed to Service Clearing Account (SCA) for non-Atlas UN Entities: Charging, Billing and Fee Collection. The following are changes made in the policy1. For UN entities who do not use Atlas (the “Non-Atlas agencies”), a dedicated Service Clearing Account (SCA) is established for each UN entity. Through SCAs, all global advance pre-payments from UN Agencies are recorded, and all services provided by UNDP offices to these UN entities are recorded. A dedicated Service Clearing Account is not applicable to Atlas Agencies (UNFPA, UN Women, UNU, UNCDF, UNV). For Common Services, please refer the NEW guidelines HERE.)2. To ensure the UN entity has sufficient funds deposited with UNDP in order for UNDP to provide services, a budget sufficiency check is performed based on the chart field combination of “Fund” (Atlas fund code 12000) and “Donor” (a dedicated donor code for each Agency). As long as the UN entity has enough funds deposited with UNDP, the budget check will pass and be valid.7. The daily batch process posts the bills to debit the agency Service Clearing Account (SCA) and credit the CO income account respectively.