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USAID/Tanzania develop realistic targets to track its progress toward achieving the overall goals of the President's Malaria Initiative.

USAID/Tanzania develop and implement a reliable, cost-effective means of determining the availability of artemisinin-based combination therapy at health facilities in Tanzania.

USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance: evaluate shelter designs and construction processes in use to identify which designs can be reproduced at lowest delivered cost while best meeting requirements for space, ventilation, thermal comfort, security, and privacy and

USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance incorporate these best practices into future plans for transitional shelter construction.

USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance incorporate into its operational guidance the option to use competitive or set-aside awards to involve local organizations in transitional shelter construction.

USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance inforporate into planning documents the need for ongoing liaison with customs officials to avoid delays when dealing with future disasters.

USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance fund mechanized rubble removal.

USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance develop, implement, and monitor performance indicators that provide consistent and useful information regarding the program's status and impact.

USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance either realign its house repair goal or develop a strategy for funding and achieving this goal.

USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, in conjunction with its awardees, develop and implement procedures to identify available humanitarian resources so that vulnerable beneficiaries can be referred on a timely basis.

USAID/Cambodia review the training provided to outreach staff and develop and implement a plan to ensure that staff are adequately prepared to provide complete and accurate information.

USAID/Cambodia work with its implementer to develop and implement a plan to adjust the project's outreach program to ensure that hormonal birth control products are represented adequately and correctly to beneficiaries.

USAID/Cambodia revise 18 of the project's 33 performance indicators, identified in Appendix III, to be objective in accordance with Automated Directives System 203.3.4.2(a).

USAID/Cambodia adequately define the seven performance indicators identified in Appendix IV and provide the methodology used to measure and report on them.

USAID/Cambodia modify the monitoring and evaluation plan's reporting methodology for the six project performance indicators shown in Appendix VI so that they closely track the results they are intended to measure.

USAID/Cambodia assign life-of-project targets to all performance indicators in the project's monitoring and evaluation plan.

USAID/Cambodia require indicator baselines, cumulative accomplishments, and life-of-project targets to be included in the project's annual performance reports alongside annual results.

USAID/Cambodia require more timely data to support reported annual results. If the implementer is unable to provide the data for the fiscal year indicated in the performance reports, this data limitation needs to be clearly documented in the results reporting.

USAID/Cambodia require the implementer to submit formal quarterly reports as required by the project's cooperative agreement, or amend the cooperative agreement to permit semiannual performance reporting instead.

USAID/Senegal, in conjunction with the International Resources Group, establish accurate performance targets for the end of the contract period for all indicators reported by the Wula Nafaa program.

We recommend that USAID/Senegal require International Resources Group to require beneficiaries to maintain adequate documentation
supporting results and establish an action plan to train beneficiaries on maintaining adequate documentation.

USAID/Senegal develop and implement a site visit plan, which incorporates data verification into site visits.

USAID/Senegal require International Resources Group and its subcontractors' senior technical and management personnel involved with selecting beneficiaries to sign conflict of interest statements.

USAID/Senegal require International Resources Group to establish and implement procedures with regard to the selection of beneficiaries to minimize the risk of other conflicts of interest.

USAID/Yemen consult with the Regional Financial Management Office and the Regional Legal Advisor to develop and implement a plan to review and audit program awards to determine whether USAID funds are being used as intended to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

USAID/Yemen work with the Regional Executive Office and the Regional Legal Advisor to develop a milestone chart of critical mission orders to be finalized to ensure continuity of operations and to address specific mission vulnerabilities.

USAID/Yemen identify training needs and develop and implement annual training plans for mission staff.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation amend its compact development policy to identify the requisite studies that will be completed prior to compact signing.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation monitor the Government of Tanzania's progress toward meeting the milestones that the Millennium Challenge Corporation has outlined for funding the budget shortfall, document decisions made during this process, and report to the Office of Inspector General regarding the Government's efforts.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation strengthen its occupational health and safety policy by (a) adopting international best practices, (b) providing guidance to Millennium Challenge Accounts on implementing the policy, (c) developing standards for contractors' Health and Safety Management Plans, and (d) establishing worker safety and livelihood reporting requirements for the Millennium Challenge Corporation's independent engineers.

USAID/Zambia develop and distribute a plan or guidance to help ensure that its HIV/AIDS programming systematically addresses PEPFAR's gender-related goals.

USAID/Zambia establish roles and responsibilities for a mission gender focal point with input on all the mission's HIV/AIDS activities, and appoint an individual to the position.

USAID/Zambia set a deadline by which the Zambia Prevention, Care and Treatment Partnership II gender strategy must be approved and launched by partners, and develop a plan to meet the deadline.

USAID/Zambia require its contractor to amend the Zambia Prevention, Care and Treatment Partnership II monitoring and evaluation work plan to include a requirement to report on indicators for male involvement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission and the promotion and strengthening of couples-oriented counseling and testing.

USAID/Zambia require its contractor to disaggregate gender-relevant indicator results in the Zambia Prevention, Care and Treatment Partnership II program's periodic performance reporting.

USAID/Zambia request that its implementing partner perform a gender analysis that includes a timeline for the development and implementation of a strategy to incorporate gender into activities performed under the Local Partners Capacity Building Program.

Director for the Office of Infrastructure and Engineering in the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade develop and conduct training to inform staff about their responsibilities relating to mandatory project planning requirements.

After the current construction season, USAID/Afghanistan obtain a revised implementation plan from the International Organization for Migration identifying revised completion dates for all structures, recovery actions to increase the speed of construction, potential barriers to timely completion of construction, and actions that could be taken to mitigate delays.

USAID/Afghanistan extend its agreement with the International Organization for Migration to ensure that the warranty period for all completed structures falls within the agreement period.

USAID/Afghanistan review the eligibility of the cost of the prayer buildings and prayer rooms included in the provincial teacher training centers and recover any costs found to be unallowable.

USAID/Afghanistan review the eligibility of the cost of the prayer buildings and prayer rooms included in the provincial teacher training centers and recover any costs found to be unallowable.

USAID/Afghanistan include in technical representatives' designation letters a reminder of USAID's policy on funding religious activities.

USAID/Afghanistan develop a process for releasing completed designs.

USAID/Afghanistan obtain evidence that the International Organization for Migration has standardized its quality control procedures at all construction sites.

USAID/Afghanistan obtain evidence that the International Organization for Migration has updated its quality control manual to include all tests performed and acceptance criteria used for quality control.

USAID/Afghanistan develop and implement a process whereby the agreement officer's technical representatives verify and review quality control tests.

USAID/Afghanistan, after preparing an analysis of the Government of Afghanistan's ability to fund maintenance for the structures turned over under the program, (1) determine the need for a separate operation and maintenance program and (2) revise as appropriate the 611 (e) certification previously prepared for the Construction of Health and Education Facilities Program.

USAID/Afghanistan complete the environmental assessments required by Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 216, "Environmental Procedures."

USAID/Afghanistan provide adequate supervision to reasonably ensure compliance with USAID's environmental procedures.

The mission direct the International Organization for Migration to submit a formal marking plan as required by the agreement.

On receipt of the International Organization for Migration's plan, the mission determine the adequacy of the plan.

USAID/Afghanistan identify and recover the unallowable costs billed to the mission for the use of off-duty Afghan National Police officers.

USAID/Afghanistan, after identifying all the clinics built under the Schools and Clinics Construction and Refurbishment Program that may have design flaw that creates a fire hazard, notify the Ministry of Public Health of the potential danger and provide a remedy for the design flaw.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza strengthen Technical and Vocational Education and Training Program results reporting to ensure that indicators are effective in measuring goal achievements and that baseline data are collected to measure impact.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza provide guidance to agreement/contracting officer's technical representatives and partners to establish improved standards for acceptance of work plans and reports, as well as developing guides for preparing written documents.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza complete a performance management plan that includes detailed definitions of all Technical and Vocational Education and Training Program indicators.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza verify and correct any errors in the reported results data for the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Program.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza revise Mission Order 21 to include provisions to report violations of the mission's antiterrorism requirements to the mission director and the Regional Inspector General/Cairo.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza determine the allowability of $16,063 for lease costs charged by Save the Children to USAID/West Bank and Gaza under cooperative agreement no. 294-A-00-07-00210-00 for payments to entities that were not vetted prior to signing the lease subcontracts and collect from Save the Children any amount determined to be unallowable.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza develop a plan with milestones to prioritize Technical and Vocational Education and Training Program activities to maximize the impact of the program during its last year, to include implementing safety measures as soon as possible and providing for the sustainability of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training League.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza develop and implement quality standards for accepting implementation plans and policies for suspension of payments to awardees without approved implementation plans.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza require Save the Children to obtain gender strategies, including gender targets, from each of the benefiting Technical and Vocational Education and Training institutions.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza provide guidance to its staff to reemphasize the requirements of Automated Directives System 201 to implement a gender strategy in all of its activities.