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USAID/Iraq's contracting officer direct prime
contractors in writing to perform an accounting system and internal control review of Sallyport Global Services, which includes verification that Sallyport Global Services accounts for all costs by contract, and that appropriate internal controls, such as segregation of duties and general ledger reconciliation, are in place and functioning as intended.

USAID/Iraq's contracting officer suspend all
future security and life support payments for all prime contractors with Sallyport Global Services subcontracts until Sallyport Global Services implements an adequate cost accounting system.

USAID/Iraq's contracting officer make a written determination about terminating all security and life support subcontracts with Sallyport Global Services and work with USAID's Compliance and Oversight of Partner Performance division to start suspension and/or debarment procedures on Sallyport Global Services.

USAID/Iraq's contracting officer determine the allowability of all security and life support costs incurred by Sallyport Global Services since 2007 and billed to prime contractors, and issue a bill of collection as appropriate.

USAID/Iraq make a written determination about establishing a direct contracting relationship with Sallyport Global Services, or another security and life support provider, to better monitor costs incurred. If USAID/Iraq decides against the direct contracting relationship, USAID/Iraq should develop a written plan to verify that contractors are monitoring costs appropriately and proper surveillance is performed.

USAID/Iraq issue a mission notice with new serious incident reporting procedures and modify all awards with the updated language.

USAID/Pakistan develop an action plan to make sure project goals can be reached by the end of 2016, or, if they cannot, determine whether the agreement signed with the Agribusiness Support Fund should be discontinued.

Recommend that prior to making future awards, USAID/Pakistan implement mission-wide procedures to verify independently that corrective actions are sufficient to address weaknesses identified in its preaward assessments.

USAID/Pakistan implement a plan to confirm that the policies and procedures of the Agribusiness Support Fund related to governance, procurement, human resource, information technology, and agribusiness operations comply with USAID regulations.

USAID/Pakistan follow up with the Agribusiness Support Fund to correct the weaknesses identified in the second preaward assessment report.

USAID/Pakistan implement a strategy to work with the Agribusiness Support Fund to update its finance and procurement manuals and implement the integrated management information system.

USAID/Pakistan implement a plan to monitor the second-year annual plan to confirm that the project can meet its targets, outcomes, and goals.

USAID/Pakistan require the Agribusiness Support Fund to stop advance payments to subrecipients responsible for forming farmer groups until it conducts a thorough preaward responsibility determination.

USAID/Pakistan obtain a revised annual plan from the Agribusiness Support Fund to include specific grant activities that it plans to implement during the year, with benchmarks, milestones, and expected outputs and outcomes.

USAID/Pakistan require the Agricultural Support Fund to record the nonrefundable application fees received from the grantees as income in the project accounts.

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer, in
coordination with USAID/Ghana, conduct an onsite review of USAID/Ghana's implementation of the Public Financial Management Risk Assessment Framework for the Resiliency in Northern Ghana Project to confirm that all material risks were identified and effective mitigation measures developed and implement procedures to verify that all future Stage 2 assessments comply with guidance for the Public Financial Management Risk Assessment Framework.

Office of the Chief Financial Officer review and approve updates to the USAID/South Africa Stage 1 appraisal to verify that fiduciary risks are clearly identified and assessed.

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer revise
Automated Directives System Chapter 220 and Stage 1 and Stage 2 guidance to assign a more active oversight role to the Global Partner Country Systems Risk Management Team, including applying additional quality assurance controls over the assessment process.

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer, in
coordination with the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning, revise Automated Directives System Chapter 220 and Public Financial Management Risk Assessment Framework guidance to explain how the Public Financial Management Risk Assessment
Framework and project design relate to one another.

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer, in
coordination with the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning, revise Automated Directives System Chapter 220 and Public Financial Management Risk Assessment Framework guidance to elaborate on how technical capacity evaluations should be used
to inform the Public Financial Management Risk Assessment Framework.

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer revise
Stage 2 guidance to describe the importance and types of public financial management testing and require missions to document the type and extent of testing performed in Stage 2 assessments.

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer verify
that USAID/Peru updates its Stage 2 assessment of the Regional Government of San Martin by testing relevant areas of public financial management to determine the effectiveness of system operations and internal controls, identify risks and modify its risk mitigation plan as appropriate, and maintain supporting documentation for all testing
performed to demonstrate due diligence in accordance with Automated Directives System Chapter 220.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina implement a plan to improve outreach with partner banks to promote the Development Credit Authority Program to small and medium-sized enterprises.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina work with Cardno Emerging Markets USA Ltd. to review all unspent balances, close all completed grants, deobligate unspent balances, make the deobligated funds available for future grant activities, and document the results.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina work with Cardno Emerging Markets USA Ltd. to implement procedures to assess whether funds are available in the grant's budget before approving new grant activities.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina implement a plan to conduct a timely gender analysis and incorporate its findings and recommendations in the mission's country assistance strategy.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina finalize the gender analysis report, performance management plan, and mission order pertaining to gender inclusion, and implement them in monitoring and assessing progress.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina require Cardno Emerging Markets USA Ltd. to report in writing sex-disaggregated data for indicators that would help the mission assess its progress toward addressing obstacles women encounter in small and medium-sized enterprises.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina implement a plan to verify and assess the quality of data reported by Cardno Emerging Markets USA Ltd.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina require Cardno Emerging Markets USA Ltd. to strengthen its data quality and verification procedures and document the results.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina work with Cardno Emerging Markets USA Ltd. to review and adjust the project's targets to make them realistic, and document the results.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina direct Cardno Emerging Markets USA Ltd. in writing to reassess its grant with Adventure Tourism Association and either implement a plan to help the Adventure Tourism Association achieve sustainability or cancel the grant.

USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina work with Cardno Emerging Markets USA Ltd. to implement procedures to evaluate sustainability thoroughly when reviewing grant applications.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza direct Development Alternatives International to submit the required environmental documentation forms, pesticide evaluation report, and safe use action plan in a timely manner and do so in future activities under the Compete Project.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza direct Development Alternatives Inc. and the contracting officer's representative to institute an internal control system for tracking environmental compliance under the Compete Project.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza provide training to Development Alternatives Inc. Compete Project employees on environmental compliance and document whether to expand this training mission-wide.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza direct Development Alternatives Inc. to implement a gender strategy for the Compete Project and, based on the results, include gender-sensitive indicators in its performance monitoring plan.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza direct Development Alternatives Inc. to use performance indicators in the Compete Project's performance monitoring and evaluation plan that measure results toward improving the capacity of the business associations and service providers critical to the four sectors.

USAID/Liberia work with the National Malaria
Control Program and Management Sciences for Health Inc. to address all outstanding issues related to the private pharmacy program, document the resolution, and implement a plan for pharmacies to be provided with sufficient amounts of rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapies to meet their needs in diagnosing and treating malaria patients.

USAID/Liberia work with Management Sciences for Health Inc. to implement a plan to update private pharmacies periodically on progress that the organization has made to provide them with rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapies.

USAID/Liberia work with the National Malaria Control Program to follow up and address the remaining findings in writing from the Management for Science Health Inc.'s quarterly surveys.

We recommend that USAID/Liberia require partners to take the necessary steps to confirm adherence to branding and marking guidelines, and document the results.

USAID/El Salvador document steps taken to develop a performance indicator that measures whether the Municipal Competitiveness Project is making progress in promoting investment and trade.

USAID/El Salvador establish a process to differentiate new firms and jobs from those that are newly registered but have been operating informally, and collect additional data that would more accurately measure economic growth and employment directly resulting from the Municipal Competitiveness Project.

USAID/El Salvador prepare a schedule and conduct regular site visits to the participating municipalities over the remaining contract
period, and document the visits in accordance with Mission Order 750.

USAID/El Salvador obtain access to the Training Results and Information Network, and properly monitor and report on in-country training programs and participants in accordance with USAID's Automated Directives System 253 and Mission Order 745.

USAID/El Salvador obtain the baseline assessment of business ownership and the gender integration plan from Research Triangle Institute, and implement the actions presented in the gender analysis.

USAID/El Salvador amend the contract with
Research Triangle Institute to include environmental compliance language that will make
the environmental mitigation plan mandatory if its activating conditions are met.

USAID/Pakistan provide and document training to all office directors and senior mission management to make them aware of the mission training policy.

USAID/Pakistan implement a plan to review all
pending fiscal year 2013 international training events that are outside the Asia Regional Training Center to determine whether they comply with the mission training policy.

USAID/Pakistan implement a standard procedure for approving all training events that are classified as exceptions to the mission training policy.

USAID/Pakistan implement a plan to conduct a cost benefit assessment for all international training events that are not core or mandatory, and reduce the training budget by the amount of savings achieved.

USAID/Lebanon, in coordination with USAID/Egypt's regional procurement office, use the results of the alert notice to reduce program activities, replace, or terminate the award, and document their determination.

USAID/Lebanon ask, in writing, the implementer and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education to establish roles and responsibilities of all program parties that align with the cooperative agreement.

USAID/Lebanon, in coordination with USAID/Egypt's regional legal advisor and procurement office, determine, in writing, whether 611(e) certification is required based on program activities, and submit the certification if required.

USAID/Lebanon, in coordination with USAID/Egypt's regional procurement office, modify the program agreement to include sustainability activities for each component of the award.

USAID/Lebanon, in coordination with Education Development Center Inc., modify all awards to include the required trafficking in persons provision.

USAID/Lebanon designate, in writing, a counter-trafficking in persons coordinator

USAID/Jordan assess and streamline program activities to focus on results that will achieve the program's revised goal and have a greater impact on at-risk youth for successful long-term employment and document the results.

USAID/Jordan direct International Youth Foundation in writing to review and correct the reporting data for all 31 indicators and perform and document a data quality assessment for the indicator tracking the number of people who benefited from the program that was reported in the mission's annual performance plan and report.

USAID/Jordan implement procedures for the agreement officer's representative to validate reported program results periodically.

USAID/Jordan implement procedures to confirm that International Youth Foundation entered its past trainings into USAID's Training Results and Information Network, training data is entered into the database quarterly, and the agreement officer's representative is monitoring the entry of data into the database.

USAID/Jordan verify that International Youth
Foundation modifies all service contracts to include human trafficking and terrorism financing provisions.