The USAID Office of Inspector General, Millennium Challenge Corporation and Global and Strategic Audits Division is initiating an audit of USAID’s non-Federal audit (NFA) program. Federal regulations require agencies to ensure U.S.-based non-Federal entities that expend $750,000 or more in Federal awards during the fiscal year obtain annual NFAs in compliance with generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS). USAID is responsible for ensuring NFAs are performed by competent independent public accountants in compliance with government auditing standards.

The USAID Office of Inspector General, Millennium Challenge Corporation and Global and Strategic Audits Division is initiating an audit of USAID’s direct budget support to Ukraine through the World Bank’s Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance (PEACE) multi-donor trust fund. Of the $22.9 billion that USAID has provided in direct budget support to the Government of Ukraine, $20.2 billion has gone through the PEACE fund. Russia’s war on Ukraine has resulted in the displacement of over 7 million Ukrainians accounting for about 20 percent of the country’s pre-war population.

The USAID Office of Inspector General, Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office, is initiating an audit of USAID’s efforts to prevent aid for reparations, demobilized combatant compensation, and cultivation of illegal substances in Colombia. Congress has continued to stand behind Colombia’s implementation of the 2016 Peace Accord and counternarcotics efforts. To support these efforts, USAID has funded various programs that include judicial support, rural alternative development, peacebuilding, and other activities.