Recommendation Dashboard

USAID/Afghanistan determine the allowability of $748,683 in questioned costs related to vehicles leased without proper approvals and without full and open competition and recover from Development Alternatives Inc. any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Afghanistan determine the allowability of $325,500 in questioned costs associated with lease payments for the Local Governance and Community Development Project office space and guesthouses disclosed in the Development Alternatives Inc. internal audit report, and recover from Development Alternatives Inc. any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Afghanistan determine the allowability of $2,019,036 in questioned costs related to services procured without full and open competition and recover from Development Alternatives Inc. any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Afghanistan determine the allowability of and recover from Development Alternatives Inc., as appropriate, $3,424,400 in inadequately supported fuel purchases for the Local Governance and Community Development Project.

USAID/Afghanistan determine whether Development Alternatives Inc. billed USAID for $48,530 in unliquidated and uncollectible project advances and, if so, determine the allowability of these costs and recover from Development Alternatives Inc. any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Afghanistan determine the allowability of $4,782 in questioned costs related to fees for unapproved seating upgrades charged to the Local Governance and Community Development Project and recover from Development Alternatives Inc. any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Afghanistan contract for a financial audit of Development Alternatives Inc.'s Local Governance and Community Development Project to determine whether all the costs charged to USAID were reasonable, allowable, and allocable.

USAID/Jordan review and revise its water strategy to determine whether the mission could achieve greater success by reprogramming funds to priority projects, and document the resultant revisions.

USAID/Jordan implement a plan to revise the cash transfer and conditions precedent program to better leverage sustainable development results.

USAID/Jordan review water resource and environment projects that may address the use of water by Jordan's agriculture sector and document mission decisions to include or exclude projects from the mission's portfolio.

USAID/Jordan review its water projects and document decisions to support water projects that do not have Government of Jordan commitment.

USAID/Jordan develop and implement a performance management plan to track achievement of the water resources assistance objective.

USAID/Jordan submit a written request to USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance to provide training to mission employees on the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System and establish and implement a plan to train employees.

USAID/Jordan's regional contracting office and contracting officer's technical representatives implement a plan to complete the required contractor performance reports.

USAID/Sierra Leone work with the partner to develop and implement a plan to measure the
program's impact on targeted areas by rebuilding a baseline from available data and using specific proxy indicators to determine the change in income
levels from the onset of the program.

USAID/Sierra Leone work with the partner to develop and implement a plan to verify that performance data are organized, supported, and verifiable.

USAID/Sierra Leone make a management decision on
the allowability of the unapproved budget overruns of $794,664 and collect from the recipient any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Sierra Leone make a management decision on
the allowability of the ineligible and unsupported questioned costs totaling $71,776 identified in Table 2 and collect from the recipient any amounts determined to be unallowable. The breakdown for the total questioned costs of $71,776 was $21,811 ineligible questioned costs and $49,965 unsupported questioned costs.

USAID/Sierra Leone work with the partner to develop and implement a plan to address the internal financial control weaknesses related to oversight and the segregation of duties.

USAID/Sierra Leone work with the partner to develop and implement a financial plan to monitor program expenditures against the approved program budget quarterly.

USAID/Sierra Leone work with the partner to realign
the work plan as a result of the budget shortage created by cost overruns.

USAID/Sierra Leone work with the partner to develop and implement a plan to improve cooperation among the coalition partners in a way that more closely reflects the intent of the cooperative agreement.

USAID/Sierra Leone work with the partner to prepare and implement a plan to verify that the
cost share reported is documented and allowable in accordance with the terms of this agreement.

USAID/Sierra Leone modify the Promoting
Agriculture, Governance, and the Environment cooperative agreement to clarify whether the cost-sharing amount is to be provided in accordance with the annual schedule.

USAID/Sierra Leone work with the partner to develop and implement a plan that requires the
partner to reach the life-of-program cost-sharing requirement by the program's end date.

USAID/Sierra Leone work with the partner to
determine and document essential activities that can be completed from the fiscal year 2010 work plan on a mutually agreed-upon schedule.

USAID/Sierra Leone establish and implement policies mandating compliance with environmental requirements for its entire portfolio and communicate these requirements to its staff and
implementing partners in writing.

USAID/Sierra Leone require that all activity
documents under the Promoting Agriculture, Governance, and the Environment Program be amended to incorporate appropriate language
regarding environmental compliance and be approved by the appropriate officials.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Vice President of Policy and Evaluation finalize and implement the fiscal year 2012 communications plans for Liberia, Niger, and Tanzania.

USAID/Egypt determine the allowability of $2,601 in questioned costs and recover from the employee any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Egypt update and implement its procedures to include verifying reimbursement requests to determine whether separate maintenance allowance benefits were properly authorized and allowable and collecting any costs determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Egypt issue a written reminder to all employees to adhere to Agency guidelines that require the use of the government travel card in lieu of an advance of funds and publicize the possible penalties for not following the guidelines.

USAID/Egypt determine the type of offense, administer the appropriate penalty, and document the appropriate mission or personnel file accordingly.

USAID/Egypt document the limitations for advances to U.S. direct-hire staff in the mission's procedures for advances and accounts payable.

USAID/Egypt determine the allowability of $1,000 in questioned costs and recover from the employee any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Egypt determine the allowability of $389 in questioned costs and recover from the employee any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Egypt review employees' payment requests for lodging to determine the allowability of all payments including the identified questioned costs of $657, $240, and $225 and recover from the employees any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Egypt develop and implement management review procedures that supervisors can verify and document on an intermittent schedule.

USAID/Egypt revise and implement its mission procedures to require financial management staff to include travel authorizations in a travel voucher package before employee reimbursements are processed.

USAID/Southern Africa conduct training sessions for implementing partners and subgrantee staff on documenting HIV/AIDS interventions, maintaining records to support reported results, and meeting data quality requirements.

USAID/Southern Africa work with the Swaziland office of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to gather data on all salaries supported by USAID in Swaziland in order to develop and implement a plan for the absorption by Swaziland of the supported workers.

USAID/Southern Africa develop and implement a gender strategy to address systematically the gender-related goals in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the mission's HIV/AIDS programming in Swaziland.

USAID/Morocco develop a plan to address the concerns with the task order and revise the task order accordingly.

USAID/Morocco work with DAI/Nathan Group to develop a mutually agreed-upon schedule of activities to be completed for the remainder of the project and revise the work plan accordingly.

USAID/Morocco work with DAI/Nathan Group to establish a plan to ensure that relevant, effective, and high-quality training sessions are provided to beneficiaries.

USAID/Morocco work with DAI/Nathan Group to establish and implement a plan with concrete actions and deadlines to include women and youth in project activities as intended in the Morocco Economic Competitiveness Project, or remove this focus from the task order.

USAID/Morocco work with DAI/Nathan Group to develop and implement a plan to improve cooperation in a way that more closely reflects the intent of the project.

USAID/Morocco approve DAI/Nathan Group's work plans and quarterly reports, and document site visits using the standard reporting template.

USAID/Morocco establish a plan to formally
communicate activity approvals or disapprovals to DAI/Nathan Group in writing, and if applicable, explain reasons for disapproving activities.

USAID/Morocco require DAI/Nathan Group to formally document problems and challenges in its monthly and quarterly reports.

USAID/Morocco require DAI/Nathan Group to develop a plan to involve regional coordinators in and inform them of all activities in the regions.

USAID/Morocco develop and approve indicators and revise targets in its performance management plan.

USAID/Morocco, in conjunction with DAI/Nathan Group, establish an approved set of indicators and update targets in the Morocco Economic Competitiveness Project's performance management plan and verify that it aligns with USAID's performance management plan.

USAID/Morocco reperform and document data quality assessments for economic growth indicators.

USAID/Philippines require the implementer for the Growth with Equity in Mindanao Program to assess the Ladia-Raguisi-Pinaring Road, coordinate the appropriate repairs and maintenance needed, and explore options to protect the road from further destructive usage.

USAID/Philippines develop a plan of action outlining the measures the mission intends to take to ensure that quality standards are maintained on the remaining Barangay-Level Infrastructure Projects to be completed under the mission's Growth with Equity in Mindanao Program.

USAID/Philippines require the implementer for the Growth with Equity in Mindanao Program to make and document appropriate adjustments to its performance results data to ensure that the postharvest facilities provided under the program to former combatants are credited toward the target for this activity only, to avoid double counting.

USAID/Philippines require the implementer for the Growth with Equity in Mindanao Program to develop and implement a plan of action for the program's Sustainable Aquaculture and Fisheries Effort to provide a sustainable, long-term solution that addresses the existing supply problem of fish hatcheries not being able to produce sufficient quantities of fingerlings to satisfy the demand generated by program-assisted aquaculture cooperatives.

USAID/Democratic Republic of Congo require PATH to modify all agreements with local partners to specify the amount of funding and performance expectations.

USAID/Democratic Republic of Congo require PATH to resolve the issue of nonpayment of salaries and other operating expenses to local partners
for services rendered and provide the mission with documentation supporting the resolution of this issue.

USAID/Democratic Republic of Congo develop and implement a plan to provide greater financial oversight of PATH's project activities and require
PATH to do the same.

USAID/Democratic Republic of Congo revise the operational plan and targets to reflect setbacks caused by procurement problems.

USAID/Democratic Republic of Congo require PATH to submit for approval a revised budget that covers procurement of commodities and aligns with the revised operational plan and targets.

USAID/Democratic Republic of Congo establish and implement a monitoring plan that includes frequent site visits.

USAID/Democratic Republic of Congo require Population Services International to develop and
implement a plan (including a contingency plan) to ensure that orders for health program commodities are placed, monitored, and received
on time.

USAID/Democratic Republic of Congo require Population Services International to revise the work plan, adjusting the targets and the budget to reflect the late start and the current circumstances.

USAID/Pakistan discontinue the tube well program
under the Energy Efficiency and Capacity Program at the end of the contract period unless the mission develops an action plan to reach program goals.

USAID/Pakistan modify the Energy Efficiency and
Capacity Program contract to reflect changes in the statement of work.