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We recommend that USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance Cost, Audit and Support Division/Contract Audit Management Branch verify that the African Institute for Development Policy corrects the instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 45 to 57 of the audit report.

We recommend that USAID/Pakistan:

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We recommend that the Bureau for Global Health take the following actions:
Establish procedures to facilitate the deployment of staff to the field when needed during a health emergency.

We recommend that the Bureau for Global Health take the following actions:
Develop a timeline for finalizing all aspects of its Global Health Emergency Management System, including provisions for periodic testing of plans and for documenting and incorporating bureau-specific lessons learned.

We recommend that the Bureau for Management take the following actions:
Develop a plan for the identification, recruitment and retention of skilled personnel to task forces in the event of a global health emergency, including contingency planning for a lack of available staff.

We recommend that the Bureau for Management take the following actions:
Develop a plan to periodically test procedures in Automated Directives System, Chapter 112 through proactive exercises and evaluation activities and integrate lessons learned into the chapter.

USAID/Pakistan determine the allowability of $43,418 in unsupported questioned costs detailed on pages 22 to 23 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

USAID/Pakistan determine the allowability of $382,115 in questioned costs ($330,782 ineligible and $51,333 unsupported), as detailed on pages 17 to 19 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

To help the President's Malaria Initiative implement its strategy to prioritize the reduction of malaria cases and deaths in 14 high-burden African countries, we recommend that USAID's Bureau for Global Health, in conjunction with the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator:
Update its current Strategy to include an analysis of resource requirements and priorities that reflect PMI's strategy and objectives per applicable guidance.

To help the President's Malaria Initiative implement its strategy to prioritize the reduction of malaria cases and deaths in 14 high-burden African countries, we recommend that USAID's Bureau for Global Health, in conjunction with the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator:
Develop a plan to include in future strategies an analysis of budget priorities that reflect strategic objectives in accordance with applicable guidance.

To help the President's Malaria Initiative implement its strategy to prioritize the reduction of malaria cases and deaths in 14 high-burden African countries, we recommend that USAID's Bureau for Global Health, in conjunction with the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator:
Develop guidance to formally document how the priorities and principles of USAID's strategies will be considered during the 653(a)-budget allocation process.

We recommended BHA develop and implement a process to determine the appropriate number of AORs needed for a given award portfolio based on factors including, but not limited to, the number of awards, amount of funding, and operating environment.

We recommend BHA develop and implement a process to regularly assess the completeness of required award documentation in ASIST and address identified gaps.

We recommend USAID/Ethiopia's Office of Humanitarian Assistance fully implement the country monitoring plan for Ethiopia in accordance with recommended guidance.

We recommend BHA update guidance for monitoring in nonpermissive environments to include criteria that trigger an assessment by BHA at the start of a response whether a country monitoring plan is necessary, and perform and document this assessment periodically, as applicable.

We recommend BHA establish a mechanism to enforce the use of guidance for monitoring in nonpermissive environments, to include assessing and determining the need for a third-party monitor and identifying and defining context-specific approaches to verify data.

We recommend BHA assess BHA's third-party monitor contracting processes and timelines, determine if adjustments are necessary to strengthen BHA's acquisition of third-party monitor support, and update BHA guidance accordingly.

We recommend BHA establish a mechanism to enforce BHA's use of internal guidance for Response Team Staffing to develop a DART staffing strategy for disaster responses.

We recommend BHA update BHA award language to clarify (1) the relationship with incident reporting requirements in USAID standard provisions and (2) ambiguous terminology related to reporting timeliness and incident impact.

We recommend BHA develop and implement a framework to address implementer noncompliance with BHA incident reporting requirements that defines response options and identifies triggers for escalation.

We recommend BHA develop and implement a process to ensure the storage and transfer of incident documentation between team files, Abacus, and ASIST, in accordance with BHA guidance.

We recommend BHA Update incident guidance to require (1) documentation of BHA's course of action for reported incidents, to include determinations that no additional action is necessary and (2) documentation of incident closure after BHA's response.

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa determine the allowability of $167,463 in ineligible questioned costs on page 28 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa verify that Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies corrects the one material weakness in internal control detailed on page 32 of the audit report.

We recommend that USAID/Kenya and East Africa verify that Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies corrects the four instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 34 to 39 of the audit report.

We recommend that USAID/Southern Africa determine the allowability of $112,456 in questioned costs ($104,385 ineligible, $8,071 unsupported) on pages 15 and 21 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

We recommend that USAID/Southern Africa verify that Young Heroes corrects the three material weaknesses in internal control detailed on pages 24 to 27 of the audit report.

We recommend that USAID/West Africa determine the allowability of $39,329 in unsupported costs on pages 11, 12 to 14 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

We recommend that USAID/West Africa verify that National Episcopal Conference in Cameroon corrects the four material weaknesses in internal control detailed on pages 17 to 21 of the audit report.

We recommend that USAID/West Africa verify that National Episcopal Conference in Cameroon corrects the two instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 21 and 22 of the audit report.