Working in Politically Sensitive Countries With Limited Resources Stymied Monitoring and Evaluation Efforts of Selected Middle East Missions

USAID/Egypt implement additional controls to make sure required data quality assessments are completed before submitting data in the annual performance plan and report.

USAID/Jordan implement additional controls to make sure required data quality assessments are completed before submitting data in the annual performance plan and report.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement additional controls to make sure required data quality assessments are completed before submitting data in the annual performance plan and report.

USAID/Egypt's program office provide technical assistance to agreement officer's representatives and contracting officer's representatives on how to verify implementers’ data.

USAID/Jordan's management implement a plan to reinforce sound methodologies with agreement officer's representatives and contracting officer's representatives for verifying implementers' data.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza's management implement a plan to reinforce sound methodologies with agreement officer's representatives and contracting officer’s representatives for verifying implementers' data.

USAID/Egypt's office directors implement a plan to make sure data quality assessments are complete.

USAID/Jordan's office directors implement a plan to make sure data quality assessments are complete.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza's office directors implement a plan to make sure data quality assessments are complete.

USAID/Egypt, in coordination with its technical offices, implement a plan to strengthen controls over its databases to reduce errors in reporting.

USAID/Egypt conduct an assessment with mission employees to find ways of improving Egypt Info for performance monitoring and reporting, and document an action plan with milestones to address the assessment's findings.

USAID/Jordan, in coordination with its technical offices, implement a plan to strengthen controls over its databases to reduce errors in reporting.

USAID/Jordan implement procedures to assess what agreement officer's representatives, contracting officer's representatives, and office directors need before the mission develops a new information management system for performance monitoring.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza document an assessment and decision whether to hire an outside firm or other alternative to provide technical assistance for local nongovernmental organizations on USAID's requirements.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza conduct an assessment with its staff and implementers to find ways of improving the Geo-Management Information System for performance monitoring and reporting, and document an action plan with timelines to address the assessment's findings.

USAID/Egypt develop a mission-wide performance management plan.

USAID/Jordan implement an action plan to make sure all activity and project performance management plan indicators feed into the mission performance management plan.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza develop a mission-wide performance management plan.

USAID/Egypt implement an action plan to make sure gender-sensitive indicators and sex-disaggregated data are incorporated in project design documents and activity performance management plans.

USAID/Jordan implement an action plan to make sure sex-disaggregated data are incorporated in activity performance management plans.