Audit of USAID/Haiti’s Procurement and Distribution of Commodities for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Recommendations
USAID/Haiti, in coordination with the Partnership for Supply Chain Management, develop an action plan, listing specific tasks and timeframes, to move the commodities to the new central warehouse.
USAID/Haiti, in coordination with the Partnership for Supply Chain Management, install the necessary fire safety items at the central warehouse.
USAID/Haiti develop an action plan, in coordination with its partners, to improve the forecasting method in order to lessen the amount of expired commodities.
USAID/Haiti destroy expired products in a timely manner.
USAID/Haiti, in coordination with its partners, develop an action plan to improve the supply pipeline specifically with regard to Oraquick, or another confirmatory test not requiring cold storage, in order to lessen the amount of stock outs for this product.
USAID/Haiti, in coordination with the Partnership for Supply Chain Management, develop an action plan listing specific tasks and timeframes, to finalize and implement a performance monitoring plan for the PEPFAR program in Haiti.
USAID/Haiti revise its memorandum of understanding with the Global Fund to spell out the conditions and responsibilities of each party for loans and donations of commodities.
USAID/Haiti establish an internal policy that requires that estimates for loans of PEPFAR program commodities be reported in the budgets and the actual loans and repayments to stakeholders in Washington.