USAID OIG’s Additional Observations on Challenges to Oversight and Accountability Over Foreign Assistance as a Whole

Correspondence

For over 4 decades, the USAID Office of Inspector General (OIG) has provided independent oversight of USAID’s personnel, programs, and activities. This memorandum identifies several key issues and provides potential solutions for improving accountability over U.S. foreign assistance. Our goal is to ensure that the same vulnerabilities that have led to fraud, corruption, and diversion in the past are not repeated. The issues featured in this memorandum include: 

  1. Resistance from UN agencies and foreign-based NGOs to sharing information about potential misconduct with OIG;
  2. Challenges with monitoring aid in nonpermissive environments;
  3. Limitations in vetting of aid organizations for ties to designated terrorist organizations and known corrupt actors; and
  4. Improving transparency in funding to subrecipients.
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