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USAID/Jordan, in coordination with Creative Associates Inc., implement procedures to incorporate Ministry of Education documented approval during all renovation phases.

USAID/Jordan determine whether to adjust the sports area renovation targets based on need and remaining funds, and document its determination.

USAID/Jordan revise program activity targets to reflect inconsistent cooperation from the Ministry of Education and fewer training participants than expected, and adjust funding levels accordingly.

USAID/Jordan evaluate the number of program activity indicators and available monitoring and evaluation resources required, adjust the total number of indicators accordingly, and document the results.

USAID/Jordan document a clear definition for each indicator and communicate the written definitions to all program employees responsible for gathering data.

USAID/Jordan implement a process to verify reported results.

USAID/Jordan, modify the program's work plan to include indicator targets for all activities.

USAID/Jordan, in coordination with Creative
Associates Inc., modify all awards to include the required trafficking in persons provision.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Vice President of Compact Operations issue in writing specific guidance on when Millennium Challenge Accounts should require contractors to develop and implement trafficking in persons risk management plans.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza evaluate all planned and ongoing program activities to determine their attainability and potential for impact in improving the lives of the largest number of beneficiaries in Gaza and implement only those activities that are achievable and likely to have the greatest impact.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza require Mercy Corps to implement monitoring procedures to verify the quality of completed housing rehabilitation work done and of nonfood items to be distributed by its subgrantees.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza evaluate the validity of each of the program activity and performance indicators in writing and require Mercy Corps to manage and report data on those considered most critical to tracking program outcome and document the results.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement a comprehensive monitoring program to track the status and provide oversight of mission activities in Gaza.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza require the agreement officer's representative to conduct and document periodic reviews of data on the Palestinian Community Assistance Program in the mission's data tracking system.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza require Mercy Corps to implement a corrective action plan to strengthen internal controls in its data collection, consolidation, verification, and reporting processes.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza require Mercy Corps to define the performance measure and target for each activity indicator in writing and, using the newly defined performance measure, review and correct any erroneous data it previously reported to the mission and document the results.

MCC agreed to require MCA-M to address the delays on infrastructure projects. MCC and MCA-M continue to monitor work programs for each contract and identify steps to reduce delays. In addition, senior U.S. Government, Government of Mozambique officials, and senior MCC officials are working to address the delays. OIG acknowledges MCC's management decision and final action on this recommendation.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Vice President for Compact Operations require the Millennium Challenge Account-Mozambique to implement a written plan that identifies other sources of funding to use in completing the projects if they are not done when the compact ends.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Vice President for Compact Operations establish procedures for Millennium Challenge Accounts to monitor contractors' use of advances.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Vice President for Congressional and Public Affairs require the Millennium Challenge Account-Mozambique to implement a branding strategy for the wells in rural areas.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Vice President for Congressional and Public Affairs ensure the Millennium Challenge Account-Mozambique creates permanent signs for infrastructure projects in accordance with Standards for Global Marking.

USAID/Jordan should document its analysis already performed, complete a needs assessment, and, based on the assessment, implement an action plan for how and when to require Jordan to make a local currency contribution.

USAID/Jordan document the capacity of Jordanian Government ministries to carry out development projects to provide reasonable assurance under the requirements for general-sector support.

USAID/Jordan issue a mission order establishing a practice of obtaining and documenting reasonable assurance of the technical capacity of implementers and the technical, financial, and environmental soundness of any projects or activities funded by the local currency account, and implement this practice for projects identified in the August 2012 implementation letter.

USAID/Jordan require Jordan, in writing, to reimburse the local currency fund for 850,000 dinars ($1.2 million) spent on prohibited uses.

USAID/Jordan include audit procedures in its statement of work for calendar years 2010 through 2012 to test for prohibited activities.

USAID/Jordan document a formal decision regarding what alternative forms of budget assistance the cash transfer can be applied to and amend the agreement accordingly.

The mission establish written procedures that the
Financial Management Office obtains a positive declaration, in writing, before each cash transfer from the Central Bank of Jordan that all separate dollar accounts bear interest.

USAID/Jordan contract for annual audits as required by the agreement.

USAID/Jordan include language in the scopes of work clarifying that the accounting firms should trace sector support funds, on a test basis, to specific projects in the implementation letter.

USAID/Jordan negotiate with the Jordanian Government performance indicators for the local currency account program and incorporate them into the agreement.

USAID/Jordan work with the Jordanian Government to prepare semiannual impact summaries beginning with the most recently completed year.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza perform and document an assessment of the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Education and Higher Education's capacity to sustain infrastructure projects constructed or renovated under the Local Government and Infrastructure Program, and review the total amount of completed and planned assistance provided to other ministries and determine in writing whether additional assessments need to be performed.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza revise the Local Government and Infrastructure Program's sustainability framework to require beneficiaries to provide written cost estimates of what is needed to operate and sustain projects, and direct Cooperative Housing Foundation International to assess the viability of the cost estimates to sustain the project before construction starts and document the results.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza implement written procedures for completing environmental screening forms for projects within politically sensitive areas under the Local Government and Infrastructure Program to mitigate the environmental impact of construction.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza obtain a written legal decision from its regional legal advisor on how to proceed with the three projects that are either completed or under way for which the staff did not complete environmental screening forms before construction began.

USAID/West Bank and Gaza modify the Local Government and Infrastructure program agreement to add the June 2012 USAID's Automated Directives System revised human trafficking provision, and direct Cooperative Housing Foundation International to amend its ongoing subcontracts to
include the revised human trafficking provision.

USAID/Vietnam review the project's indicators and establish appropriate custom indicators that would capture project activities adequately and allow the mission to track progress.

USAID/Vietnam work with the contractor to review and revise the project's performance indicator targets for the remainder of the project.

USAID/Vietnam perform a data quality assessment identifying the contractor's source of reported results, analysis of calculations, and completeness of data, and document the results.

USAID/Vietnam determine the allowability of $58,524 in unsupported questioned costs pertaining to the total approved days of the short-term technical adviser and recover from DAI/Nathan Group any amounts determined to be unallowable.

USAID/Vietnam require the contractor to quantify, track, and report in writing on all forms of cash and in-kind contributions made by counterparts and other organizations toward STAR Plus project activities.

USAID/Pakistan implement a plan to engage with the Government of Pakistan continually to promote policy reform in the energy sector.

USAID/Pakistan review and revise in writing the Jamshoro Thermal Power Station Project's target date for increasing energy capacity by 150 megawatts.

USAID/Pakistan update the capacity-building schedule for the Jamshoro Thermal Power Station to reflect an achievable completion date and document the results.

USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, Office of Food for Peace, conduct and document an independent evaluation to quantify the differences in cost and timeliness between overseas and domestic prepositioning, and adjust the use of overseas prepositioning appropriately.

USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance's Transportation Division implement a system of internal controls to reconcile its records regularly with reports from warehouses and outgoing shipment reports to identify and resolve any differences in a timely manner.

USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance's Transportation Division implement a system of internal controls to monitor and track losses more closely at warehouses, including procedures for recovering losses from warehouse contractors.

USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance's Transportation Division remind warehouse contractors in writing of their responsibility for lost commodities in their possession and their obligations to store commodities in accordance with USAID's Commodities Reference Guide.

USAID/Georgia approve a method for attributing to economic governance interventions progress toward project goals and modify the contract as necessary to enable the method to be implemented.

USAID/Georgia issue in writing guidance on project design incorporating into contracts measures of success tailored to the feasibility of performance data collection and attribution for each project component.

USAID/Georgia develop a written strategy for strengthening property rights that incorporates the full range of activities described on page 12 of the contract.

USAID/Georgia establish a mechanism to bring Government of Georgia agencies together to prioritize interventions under the Economic Prosperity Initiative's economic governance component.

USAID/Georgia approve in writing quantitative performance targets for all market sectors in which it measures productivity and employment increases attributable to the Economic Prosperity Initiative.

USAID/Georgia modify the contract to replace "USAID-approved semi-annual targets" with "USAID-approved targets set at the appropriate frequency for each market sector in which USAID measures productivity and employment increases attributable to the Economic Prosperity Initiative."

USAID/Georgia modify the contract to clarify whether the contractor may count investment commitments toward the contract's $500 million foreign investment target, and may count import substitution and increased tourism occurring in Georgia toward the contract's $150 million exports target.

USAID/Georgia modify the contract provision on page 9 to clarify that the contractor is required to track each high-level goal by the targeted market sectors or components that can contribute to it.

USAID/Georgia modify the contract provision on page 26 to clarify that the contractor can collect and submit performance indicator data to USAID/Georgia annually, if the mission agrees in writing that data cannot practically be collected and submitted twice during the fiscal year.

USAID/Georgia modify the contract to either clarify or remove the requirement on page 10 that the contractor quantify the expected change in each identified World Economic Forum indicator throughout the project and as of project completion.

USAID/Georgia extend by 6 months deadlines for achieving contract benchmarks for revenue increases in the Economic Prosperity Initiative's agricultural and nonagricultural private sector components.

USAID/Georgia make a written determination as to whether "(primarily 5 hectares and more)" in the first bulleted benchmark on page 16 of the contract is feasible and, if not, delete it from the benchmark.

USAID/Georgia either modify the contract, if it determines that current contract requirements for calculating project overhead rates are incorrect, or determine to what extent it overpaid the contractor in noncompliance with the contract and recover any overpayment.