In essence, Direct Access is our ship . . . and our ship is damaged and undergoing depot-level repairs. The crew at the Pay and Personnel Center are just as eager for Direct Access to come back to fully mission capable, so we can better serve our Coast Guard families.
This section is used to identify and notify all users of any known issues for Direct Access. All user guides and materials are dated and annotated with the last date of revision upon posting. Change or update requests regarding guidance can be sent to: PPC-SMB...@uscg.mil
KNOWN ISSUE FOR SELF SERVICE AIRPORT TERMINAL - Some Self-Service members are currently unable to View Orders in Direct Access. This has been reported and is being addressed with no estimated timeline for correction. All SPO/PSI personnel are still able to View/Print Orders. Please contact your local YN for assistance. We apologize to all for the inconvenience!
(*) BAH Dependency Data Form - Delayed Processing - Changes you make in Personal Information/Dependent Information WILL NOT IMMEDIATELY APPEAR ON THE BAH DEPENDENCY DATA FORM. The form relies on an update process that runs daily at 0500 (EST) to pull data from for the form. Wait until after 0500 (EST) or until the next day before attempting to print the form. Includes procedures for printing by member employee ID and batch printing by department ID (SPO or unit).
Career Sea Pay Premium (CSPP)
Note: If submitting a transaction out-of-range the SPO will submit the CSPP Start Date Calculator Spreadsheet via a trouble ticket to PPC customer care after approving the CSPP action request in Direct Access. Also, submit the CSPP Start Date Calculator Spreadsheet via a trouble ticket to PPC customer care if having trouble inputting or approving the transaction.
a. Members may apply for HDP-ROM through their unit Personnel and Administration (P&A) office to their Servicing Personnel Office (SPO). Applications must be accompanied by the following documentation:
(1) Copy of order directing member into quarantine/isolation or restriction of movement. Such orders must include the beginning and ending dates of quarantine/isolation. (Memo Order Template. MS Word file format)
(2) Statement from members that they are required to pay out-of-pocket for the cost of their lodging without full or partial reimbursement. (Template for member's statement. Adobe PDF file format)
PCS Orders & Endorsements
Please note the new order notes which are mandatory for all overseas PCS transfers. The order notes posted on the PSC Overseas Screening Page (CG SharePoint Link, will open in a new tab) are required to be added to the orders of any member traveling to an OCONUS location.
Career Sea Pay stops once a member departs on Resiliency Absence and there is no expectation for them to the departing unit upon the termination of Resiliency Absence Permissive Orders (see ALCOAST COMDT NOTE 034/21; COVID-19 Major Cutter Resiliency Absence Update).
Resiliency Absence (ICW PCS departure) will be authorized on the PCS order and listed in Delay En route section as "Compensatory Absence". The absence must be entered following any leave en route and prior to proceed or travel time. Entering the absence in this order will stop CSP/CST on the day of departure and stop CGSMR the day prior to departure.
Through direct access, National Implementing Entities are able to directly access financing and manage all aspects of climate adaptation and resilience projects, from design through implementation to monitoring and evaluation.
In 2014, it launched the Readiness Programme for Climate Finance, designed to capture and share the growing experiences of AF direct access and other climate finance in order to strengthen the capacity of national and regional entities to receive and manage climate financing.
This is so confusing to me. I know there is a KB for this but the KB seems to confuse people more then help. Basically what does it block and when should we enable it? Full tunnel? Split tunnel? Only split tunnel domain?
It restricts outgoing traffic on the local connected subnet. Instead of that traffic exiting through the local physical adapter like you would expect, the traffic is sent through the tunnel and (usually) dropped by the firewall. There's some behavioral considerations when it comes to existing traffic since macOS won't terminate the existing sessions like Windows does.
When you enable this feature really depends on your own configuration/environment requirements. I'd personally recommend enabling it across the board, but I know some environments don't go that far because it breaks local network functions like network printing to someone's home printer.
So just so I understand, if my home subnet is 192.168.1.0 and my GP subnet is 10.0.0.0 when I enable "No Direct access to Local Network " I wont be able to access for example a printer on my 192.168.1.0 network?
Developing countries need large amounts of finance to support ambitious climate actions. This paper highlights lessons for developing country institutions seeking access to funding from the multilateral climate funds.
National institutions that seek direct access require considerable amounts of resources to successfully complete the accreditation process. Obtaining accreditation requires a thorough understanding of the accreditation standards and required documentation and financial resources to cover activities such as translating of documents or consultation of stakeholders.
Partnering with executing entities that can execute projects according to the standards of the relevant climate fund will help facilitate project implementation. Implementing entities should expect to train executing entities on the relevant standards.
Building robust monitoring systems has helped national institutions not only comply with reporting requirement by the climate funds, but also adapt to change and overcome problems in project implementation.
Developing countries need significant amounts of finance to help them adapt to the changing climate and follow a path of low-carbon development. The international community has set up multilateral funds to help support climate change mitigation and adaptation in these nations. Two of the largest climate funds, the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund (GCF), have committed to allowing institutions from developing countries so-called direct access to finance. Direct access in this context means that national or subnational entities1 become accredited to receive finance directly from the fund without going through an international intermediary (like the World Bank or a regional development bank). The goal of such direct access is, among other things, to reduce transaction costs and enhance national ownership over available financing.
Implementation of the Adaptation Fund and GCF direct access modalities is still in a relatively early stage. (The Adaptation Fund accredited its first implementing entities in 2010; the GCF did so in 2015.) This paper explores the experiences to date of national institutions that have been accredited by either of these two funds. It focuses on approaches that these institutions have taken to plan for, access, and use finance received through direct access, as well as early lessons learned in the process. The primary target audience is other institutions who plan to seek direct access to finance from the Adaptation Fund, the GCF, or other relevant funds. The information contained in this paper was obtained primarily from interviews with representatives of accredited institutions and other relevant stakeholders. The paper is not meant to be an assessment of whether the funds are doing a good job of implementing the direct access approach. It aims, rather, to be a useful analysis for those seeking to utilize the direct access option.
Several institutions interviewed for this paper recommend that countries spend time planning for how they will engage with the climate funds. This can include linking the search for climate finance to new or existing national strategies related to climate change and sustainable development. It can also include designating a coordinating body to help ensure that different sectors of the country are represented in decision-making processes.
Implementing entities are responsible for overseeing project and financial management, and so are the only institutions that need to be accredited by the Adaptation Fund or the GCF. Those that have gone through the accreditation process suggest being prepared for a rigorous, time-consuming, but ultimately useful endeavor. They generally recommend ensuring that the institution has adequate human and financial resources dedicated to the accreditation process, including a team of people able to access information about the different sections of the institution. Buy-in from the senior level is also reported as crucial.
Our International Climate Finance work strengthens key policies and governance elements in important international institutions to promote Paris Agreement alignment in finance and uphold the role of climate finance in international negotiations.
Direct Access, DA, is a retail electric service option whereby customers may purchase electricity from a competitive non-utility entity called an Energy Service Provider (ESP), which was originally adopted in 1996 as part of California's energy restructuring initiative and authorized by P.U. Code Section 365.1. An ESP is a non-utility entity that offers electric service to customers within the service territory of an IOU. The IOU is still responsible for the transmission and distribution for Direct Access customers.
In 2018 the Legislature approved Senate Bill (SB) 237 (Hertzberg) that required the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to 1) increase the cap on the amount of demand that can be serviced by competitive Electricity Services Providers (ESPs) through Direct Access, also referred to as direct transactions and 2) provide recommendations to the Legislature on implementing further expansion of Direct Access for which further direct transactions shall occur for all remaining nonresidential customers based on the following findings: (A) The recommendations are consistent with the state's greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. (B) The recommendations do not increase criteria air pollutants and toxic air contaminants. (C) The recommendations ensure electric system reliability. (D) The recommendations do not cause undue shifting of costs to bundled-service customers of an electrical corporation or to direct transaction customers.
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