Audit of USAID's Cash-for-Work Activities in Haiti

USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives increase the number of potential beneficiaries by expanding cash-for-work efforts to labor-intensive community improvement projects other than rubble removal.

Office of Transition Initiatives seek partners that can provide the required trucks and heavy equipment to implement cash-for-work rubble removal efforts.

Office of Transition Initiatives and the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance adopt standardized policies and procedures regarding safety equipment use, monitoring, and response to accidents at cash-for-work sites.

Office of Transition Initiatives require implementing partners to develop written policies and procedures regarding the participation of community members other than elected officials in the selection of beneficiaries for cash-for-work projects.

Office of Transition Initiatives require implementing partners to submit detailed justification for the removal of rubble from private residential sites.

As part of its monitoring and evaluation effort, the Office of Transition Initiatives require the validation and review of any home site included in rubble removal.

USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives schedule and conduct financial reviews of all implementing partners, following the protocols developed by USAID/Haiti.