Audit of USAID/Colombia’s Alternative Development Program
Recommendations
USAID/Colombia perform a sustainability review of the projects to identify those that can optimize the impact of its alternative development program and direct its remaining resources under both contracts to the types of activities that have demonstrated a strong potential for sustainability.
USAID/Colombia, establish defined procedures to sample on a routine basis the accuracy of the contractor's estimating methodologies and quality and accuracy of the underlying data that serves as the basis for reported results.
USAID/Colombia, require Associates in Rural Development to strengthen its internal controls, such as providing training to its subimplementing partners, to decrease the risks of errors in the results data collected and reported at the operating level.