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USAID/Zambia implement an agreement with the Government of Zambia that clearly delineates Zambia's responsibilities for malaria commodities purchased with U.S. Government funds.

USAID/Zambia implement a documented plan to mitigate the risks of using Zambia's systems for storing and distributing malaria commodities funded by the President's Malaria Initiative.

USAID/Zambia implement procedures to review the annual needs assessment report for errors and for reasonable assurance of accuracy before using it to make major decisions concerning its spraying activities.

USAID/Zambia work with the Government of Zambia and other partners to implement a plan to communicate to the districts expectations for the use and storage of surplus insecticide between spray seasons.

USAID/Zambia implement procedures to make sure that all source documents are stored safely for performance indicator data reported in the annual performance plan and report to Congress.

USAID/Zambia notify the Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources, in writing, of the inaccurate results reported for malaria-related commodity indicators in fiscal year 2011.

USAID/Zambia document its objectives for identifying goods and services provided under the President's Malaria Initiative in Zambia as American aid, and update its communication strategies, including branding and marking plans, if they do not achieve those objectives.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer establish written time frames for implementing patches to ensure the remediation of known vulnerabilities.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer review the critical and high-risk vulnerabilities identified by the Office of Inspector General contractor and document why the Corporation's vulnerability management tool is not identifying these vulnerabilities

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer document and implement a process for documenting management review, acceptance, and implementation of corresponding compensating controls for known vulnerability scan exclusions.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer document and implement a process to conduct periodic reviews, as defined by the Corporation, of MCCNet users' access privileges to verify that they are appropriate.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer document and implement a process to review active accounts whose owners have never logged into the system to determine whether the accounts are necessary.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Vice President of Administration and Finance document and implement a process to perform periodic, as defined by the Corporation, reviews of the exit clearance process to ensure its regular implementation.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer conduct a full system reauthorization for MCCNet in accordance with the Corporation's policy.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer implement a documented validation process to ensure that security impact assessments are conducted prior to significant system changes in accordance with the Corporation's policy.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer implement a documented validation process to ensure that system risk assessments are reviewed and updated annually, as required by the Information Systems Security Policy.

We recommend that Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer document and implement a continuous monitoring plan to assess an appropriate number of controls for the agency's information systems on a Corporation-defined frequency.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Security Officer document and implement metrics for accepting Tip of the Day participation as annual security awareness training.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Security Officer document and implement a process to track and validate that all employees and contractors receive the annual security awareness training through either the Tips of the Day program or by taking another acceptable security awareness training.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer document and implement asset management procedures to include processes for ensuring information system assets are tracked appropriately, and that periodic, as defined by the Corporation, information system asset inventories are performed.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer re-open Recommendation 9 in Office of Inspector General Audit Report No. M-000-10-004-P.

We recommend that Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer implement a documented validation process to ensure the annual testing of contingency plans and timely reporting of lessons learned, as required by the Information System Security Policy.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer re-open recommendation 9 in Office of Inspector General Audit Report No. M-000-11-004-P.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer re-open recommendation 10 in Office of Inspector General Audit Report No. M-OOO-11-004-P.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Information Officer re-open recommendation 13 in Office of Inspector General Audit Report No. M-000-11-001-0.

USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance, Cost, Audit and Support determine the allowability of $13,856 in questioned costs and collect, as appropriate, any disallowed amounts from CARE USA.

USAID's Director of the Office of Acquisition and Assistance consider implementing the cost reimbursement method of payment instead of advances for all CARE USA programs until evidence is provided that the auditor's recommendations for Findings 2011- 01 to 2011-16 (page nos. 65 to 128 of the report) are implemented.

USAID/Southern Africa implement a plan with benchmarks and milestones for sustainably raising the tuberculosis treatment success rate to 85 percent in U.S. Government-supported health-care facilities by September 28, 2014.

USAID/Southern Africa revise its annual performance plan and report for fiscal year 2011 to disclose trends in the treatment success rate and the number of tuberculosis cases at sentinel surveillance sites and implement procedures to require full disclosure in future reports.

USAID/Southern Africa implement a costeffective
method for reasonably estimating the percentage of all registered tuberculosis patients tested for HIV in all facilities directly or indirectly supported by USAID.

USAID/Southern Africa conduct and document training for its implementing partners on the correct calculation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief tuberculosis and HIV indicators and require that the implementing partners provide sufficient guidance on data collection for those indicators to the health-care facilities that they support.

USAID/Egypt's Democracy and Governance Office review and identify delayed projects in the Transition Support Grants Program and send a written list to USAID/Egypt's Procurement Office for action.

USAID/Egypt's Procurement Office, in coordination with USAID/Egypt's Democracy and Governance Office, make a written determination to revise, suspend, or terminate transition grants.

USAID/Egypt's Office of Democracy and Governance conduct and document an assessment of the International Republican Institute and National Democratic Institute grants made under the Transition Support Grants Program to determine whether the current funding is sufficient to complete program activities and cover anticipated costs.

USAID/Egypt's Democracy and Governance Office determine the validity of the reported results for democracy and governance activities under the cooperative agreement and document its review.

USAID/Egypt's Financial Management Office perform and document an independent financial review of the grantee's expenditures, and use supporting documentation to liquidate advances.

USAID/Egypt's Procurement Office determine the allowability of $526,204 in unsupported questioned costs for expenses incurred by the grantee and recover any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Iraq's Democracy and Governance Office implement a monitoring plan so that it tracks the status of programs in comparison with their deadlines.

USAID/Iraq's Democracy and Governance Office work with implementers to reevaluate and document ongoing and periodic training needs assessments so that training courses are effective and meet the needs of the target audience.

USAID/Iraq ask the Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance to conduct a worldwide evaluation of legislative strengthening programs and update the USAID Handbook on Legislative Strengthening to include guidance on how to better design and implement effective projects based on past
experiences.

USAID/Iraq's Democracy and Governance Office report AECOM's performance in the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System so that the Compliance and Oversight for Partner Performance division has an accurate, descriptive narrative of AECOM's contract termination.

USAID/Iraq determine the allowability of $1,486,609 in questioned costs from the Iraq Legislative Strengthening Program contract (identified on page 9) and recover any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Iraq reconsider all programs that were exempted from cost-share requirements and determine in writing how to obtain them from the Government of Iraq.

USAID/Iraq's Democracy and Governance Office require each program to include a contingency plan that establishes rules for when it is necessary to reobligate resources toward programs that are demonstrating meaningful results.

USAID/Iraq implement a process that reviews memorandum of understandings when political leadership undergoes significant change and a process to determine if the memorandum of understanding should be updated or a program should be suspended until an official agreement has been reached with the Government of Iraq.

USAID/Pakistan implement a plan to identify key partner organizations that need capacity building to manage USAID-funded programs, and after determining the organizational weaknesses that need strengthening, develop budgets and time frames to accomplish this.

USAID/Pakistan revise the Assessment and Strengthening Program's results framework and performance management plan in collaboration with the program office to link results to USAID/Pakistan's Strategic Framework.

USAID/Pakistan, as part of its portfolio review of mission projects and programs, review and align the management and implementation of the Assessment and Strengthening Program with the mission-wide Strategic Framework, including the program, technical, and support offices that need to be involved.

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization implement a plan to continually engage and educate the program and technical offices and contracting officers in the design phase of an acquisition activity.

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization establish small business utilization goals by bureau and office.

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and the Office of Acquisition and Assistance issue guidance that defines key areas of authority and strengthens policies and procedures over the review of proposed subcontracting plans and on monitoring and enforcing approved subcontracting plans.

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and the Office of Acquisition and Assistance train procurement personnel on the review of proposed subcontracting plans and on monitoring and enforcing approved subcontracting plans.

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and the Office of Acquisition and Assistance implement an Agency-wide mechanism to track active prime contracts that have approved subcontracting plans.

The Office of Acquisition and Assistance fix the external reporting configuration error in Global Acquisition and Assistance System and document the result. In addition, actions that are not reported to the Federal Procurement Data System must be identified and recorded according to Office of Management and Budget policies.

The Office of Acquisition and Assistance correspond with the appropriate agencies to resolve how personal services contracts data are reported in the Federal Procurement Data System and document the resolution.

The Office of Acquisition and Assistance reassess data entry and validation controls over key small business data elements and make the necessary adjustments to strengthen the controls in the information technology systems and document the results.

the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and the Office of Acquisition and Assistance implement guidance to reflect current operating policies and procedures for the small business utilization program.

The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and the Office of Acquisition and Assistance assess and strengthen controls over The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization's automated screening of solicitations so that all required actions are routed appropriately and document the results.

USAID/Afghanistan issue a mission order on project monitoring overall and specifically on on-site monitoring.

USAID/Afghanistan issue a mission order on the design, implementation, and monitoring of on-budget assistance.

USAID/Afghanistan direct mission staff members to resources that will assist them in providing guidance to implementing partners on the development of effective project performance management plans and reviewing project performance management plans.

USAID/Afghanistan complete and approve the performance management plan for the Land Reform in Afghanistan Project.

USAID/Afghanistan notify its staff of the continuous learning requirements for agreement and contracting officer representatives and the means available for meeting those requirements.

USAID/Afghanistan require that mission offices verify that employees have met the mandated continuous learning requirement for agreement and contracting officer representatives before nominating them to serve in those positions and communicate employees' certification status when nominating them to serve as agreement and contracting officer representatives.

USAID/Afghanistan determine whether all partners with ongoing projects are reporting performance data in Afghan Info and require any partners not reporting in Afghan Info to do so.

USAID/Afghanistan provide its implementing partner on the Southern Region Agriculture Development Program with training on Afghan Info, verify that the partner has appropriate access to the system, and verify that the partner uses the system to report performance data.

USAID/Afghanistan require Government of Afghanistan ministry recipients of on-budget assistance to report their performance data in Afghan Info and verify that they are doing so.

USAID/Afghanistan issue written instructions to agreement and contracting officers' representatives to verify data reported by implementing partners.

USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives implement a plan to measure and report progress made toward achieving program goals for the remainder of the program.

USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives require
Chemonics International to update its implementation plans for the remainder of the
program to include estimated timelines for each phase of an activity for development, implementation, and closeout.

USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives coordinate with USAID/Haiti to conduct and document results of data quality assessments for the indicators that USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives reports on for the mission's operational plan and performance report.

USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives incorporate plans to engage communities when developing activities so that they will take ownership and sustain the efforts.

USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives require
Chemonics International to implement communications plans for ongoing and new activities to increase the local population's awareness of the activities and how they will
benefit the community.

USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives implement processes to assess short-term technical assistance with grantees periodically throughout the grant cycle.

USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives review
the existing environmental documentation of current and planned activities for compliance with environmental review requirements, and document the results of the review.

USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives require
Chemonics to complete environmental reviews before implementing activities.