Cost Sharing: USAID's Asia Bureau Should Enhance Guidance and Training to Ensure Missions Verify Awardees' Contributions

Coordinate with USAID/Nepal to determine the course of action to address the $25.4 million in ineligible questioned costs relating to cost-sharing contributions of the National Early Grade Reading Program.

Coordinate with the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning to develop and issue additional guidance to missions in the region on how to monitor cost sharing to ensure compliance with Federal regulations and Agency directives.

Coordinate with all missions in the region to develop a plan to provide training to (i) mission staff on how to monitor cost sharing to ensure compliance with Federal regulations and Agency directives and (ii) external auditors on reviewing cost sharing in accordance with the relevant statements of work.