Working in Politically Sensitive Countries With Limited Resources Stymied Monitoring and Evaluation Efforts of Selected Middle East Missions

USAID/Egypt implement additional controls to make sure required data quality assessments are completed before submitting data in the annual performance plan and report.

USAID/Egypt, in coordination with its technical offices, implement a plan to strengthen controls over its databases to reduce errors in reporting.

USAID/Egypt conduct an assessment with mission employees to find ways of improving Egypt Info for performance monitoring and reporting, and document an action plan with milestones to address the assessment's findings.

USAID/Jordan, in coordination with its technical offices, implement a plan to strengthen controls over its databases to reduce errors in reporting.

USAID/Jordan implement procedures to assess what agreement officer's representatives, contracting officer's representatives, and office directors need before the mission develops a new information management system for performance monitoring.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza document an assessment and decision whether to hire an outside firm or other alternative to provide technical assistance for local nongovernmental organizations on USAID's requirements.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza conduct an assessment with its staff and implementers to find ways of improving the Geo-Management Information System for performance monitoring and reporting, and document an action plan with timelines to address the assessment's findings.

USAID/Egypt develop a mission-wide performance management plan.

USAID/Jordan implement an action plan to make sure all activity and project performance management plan indicators feed into the mission performance management plan.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza develop a mission-wide performance management plan.

USAID/Egypt implement an action plan to make sure gender-sensitive indicators and sex-disaggregated data are incorporated in project design documents and activity performance management plans.

USAID/Jordan implement additional controls to make sure required data quality assessments are completed before submitting data in the annual performance plan and report.

USAID/Jordan implement an action plan to make sure sex-disaggregated data are incorporated in activity performance management plans.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement an action plan to make sure sex-disaggregated data are incorporated in activity performance management plans.

USAID/Egypt document the reallocation of budgeted funds to make sure enough money is dedicated to monitoring and evaluations.

USAID/Jordan document the reallocation of budgeted funds to make sure enough money is dedicated to monitoring and evaluations.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza document the reallocation of budgeted funds to make sure enough money is dedicated to monitoring and evaluations.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement changes to its budgeting process to make sure the monitoring and evaluation point of contact has input on how monitoring and evaluation funds are allocated.

USAID/Egypt implement additional tools (e.g., templates, standardized filing systems, handover checklists) that management deems appropriate for agreement officer's representatives and contracting officer's representatives to use when documenting and maintaining official files.

USAID/Egypt's contracting and agreement office implement a plan to work with agreement officer's representatives and contracting officer's representatives to reinforce requirements for documenting site visit reports and maintaining official files.