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USAID/Pakistan implement a plan to ensure damaged roof tiles are replaced.

USAID/Pakistan implement a plan to utilize the newly constructed health-care facility in Neela But, Bagh.

USAID/Pakistan request that the contractor submit past and future financial audit reports (including management letters) to USAID and verify that internal control weaknesses were corrected.

USAID/Pakistan determine the allowability of, and collect as appropriate, questioned unsupported costs of $117,800.

USAID/Colombia implement a plan to establish targets that are ambitious, yet realistic.

USAID/Colombia require the implementing partner to implement a customized security plan that is tailored to the working conditions in conflict regions.

USAID/Colombia require the implementing partner to submit for USAID approval a budget for security-related personnel and equipment needed for the upcoming justice program.

USAID/Colombia obtain the Regional Security Office's input on the customized security plan for the upcoming justice program.

USAID/Colombia require the implementing partner to develop a comprehensive budget for regional offices under the upcoming justice program.

USAID/Colombia require the implementing partner to implement a comprehensive staffing plan for the upcoming justice program that takes into consideration the following factors: (1) number of regional personnel, (2) retention of personnel, and (3) employment contracts that comply with the evolving Colombian labor laws.

USAID/Colombia clearly describe its intentions and expectations regarding the scope and priorities of focus areas for the upcoming justice program.

USAID/Colombia reduce the number of indicators for the upcoming justice program and verify that they meet USAID's quality standards.

USAID/Colombia determine and document which USAID-funded assets under its justice activities are unmarked and mark them, with special attention to the Medellin victim assistance center, where the mission should also confirm that the center's staff documents the delivery of donated equipment and verifies that all the donated items are being used as intended.

USAID/Colombia establish a plan for conducting training on inventory control, branding, and marking with the upcoming justice program.

USAID/Senegal, in conjunction with the ChildFund consortium, implement a plan to strengthen the supervision provided to health huts.

USAID/Senegal, in conjunction with IntraHealth International, implement a plan to strengthen the supervision provided to district health facilities.

USAID/Mozambique implement a strategy to raise rates of HIV testing among urban tuberculosis patients in Sofala and Manica Provinces.

USAID/Mozambique propose and document realistic targets based on World Health Organization data for the percentage of HIV positive tuberculosis patients initiating antiretroviral therapy during the next interagency planning process in Mozambique.

USAID/Mozambique, in collaboration with FHI 360 and the Government of the Republic of Mozambique, implement a plan to optimize use of tuberculosis microscopy, including training technicians in tuberculosis microscopy, placing technicians in labs, and outlining procedures to track, repair, and replace defective microscopes.

USAID/Mozambique work with the Bureau of Global Health to implement procedures for monitoring Child Survival and Health Grants Program activities in Mozambique.

USAID/Pakistan determine the allowability and recover, as appropriate, unsupported questioned costs of $2,030,417 identified in the report on pages 12 and 13, and further detailed in Findings on pages 16 through 43 of the agreed-upon procedures report.

USAID/Iraq's technical offices establish and implement procedures to test and document implementing partners' reported performance data periodically. The program office should track and report on technical offices' compliance with these procedures.

USAID/Iraq incorporate Agency guidance and tools (such as checklists) in planning evaluations, developing their scopes of work, reporting on them, and implementing their recommendations to improve their quality and usefulness.

USAID/Iraq implement controls to maintain objectivity and independence in evaluation execution and reporting.

USAID/Iraq implement a systematic feedback process that incorporates input from technical offices.

USAID/Iraq implement a new internal control procedure to track the timely sharing of evaluation and monitoring reports with program implementers.

Food for Peace and USAID/Haiti establish and implement a plan for the design, tracking, correlation, and analysis of maternal and child health and nutrition and livelihood integration for the fiscal year 2013 multiyear assistance program.

Food for Peace and USAID/Haiti establish and implement a plan for the design, tracking, correlation with impact, and analysis of the effectiveness and efficiency of mothers' clubs for the fiscal year 2013 multiyear assistance program.

Food for Peace develop and implement a plan to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of the various mothers' club models being implemented by Title II cooperating sponsors.

Food for Peace and USAID/Haiti develop a cost estimate for implementing the first 1,000 days approach for the next multiyear assistance program to make sure potential cooperating sponsors incorporate sufficient resources in their budgets that demonstrate the capacity to fully implement the approach.

USAID/Haiti include validation of implementation of the first 1,000 days approach in the monitoring plan for the next multiyear assistance program.

Food for Peace and USAID/Haiti obtain expert food security technical assistance in the development of the fiscal year 2013 multiyear assistance program indicator performance tracking tables to (1) determine the most important indicators to track, (2) minimize inclusion of less significant indicators, (3) provide consistent terminology for similar indicators used by cooperating sponsors, and (4) fully incorporate information beneficial for research on food security assistance in the program indicators.

USAID/Haiti examine ongoing and proposed activities in Mirebalais to avoid duplication of effort.

Food for Peace Washington strengthen its policies and procedures to make sure International Food Relief Partnership grantees' programs are not duplicating Title II programs.

Food for Peace develop a plan to create a central repository for data management tools developed by Title II partners.

Food for Peace and USAID/Haiti retain the ACDI/VOCA tool for potential inclusion in the repository for data management tools.

USAID/Sri Lanka implement a strategy to complete the development of an electronic database representing the final stage of a new monitoring and evaluation system for Sarvodaya, an activity initiated under the Supporting Regional Governance Program. At a minimum, the strategy should specify the (1) estimated cost of the remaining work, (2) scope of work to be performed, (3) steps the mission plans to take to minimize communication issues between Sarvodaya
and the contractor hired to develop the database, (4) the period of work, and (5) plans to provide technical support to Sarvodaya in implementing its new monitoring and evaluation system.

USAID/Sri Lanka's mission director meet with appropriate Sri Lankan Government officials to request that the local authorities in Sri Lanka's Batticaloa District be permitted to maintain their financial ledger accounts using the financial management software provided under the Supporting Regional Governance Program and be authorized to discontinue maintaining these accounts manually to benefit from the use of the software.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia work with the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's prime implementer to implement performance indicators that measure results of activities related to each of the partnership's four objectives.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia work with the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's prime implementer to assess the tangible achievements toward each of the partnership's four objectives and document the results.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia share the documented results of this assessment with key government stakeholders in the six governments in the Coral Triangle to help gain their support.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia work with the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's prime implementer to implement improved policies and procedures to validate reported accomplishments.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia work with the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's prime implementer to clarify in writing indicator measurements and definitions.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia implement procedures to require data quality assessments to (1) evaluate an implementing partner's data collection, maintenance, and processing procedures and (2) determine the accuracy and consistency of the data through substantive testing.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia work with the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's prime implementer to expand the data collected for reported accomplishments. This could be done through a standard template with fields for the specific location of activities, the number of participants by type, and what objective could be achieved through each event. This information should be used to modify the database so the implementer can keep better track of progress for future work.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia work with the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's prime implementer to include only intended beneficiaries in formal reporting to USAID. Other training participants, such as consortium members and students, should be tracked separately.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia to require the Coral Triangle Support Partnership to issue written guidelines on how to integrate alternative livelihoods into activities involving marine protected areas, fisheries, and climate change adaptation. These guidelines would be available as a part of the Coral Triangle Initiative tool kit for related efforts in the future.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia formally require that the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's prime implementer incorporate and document the discussion of developing alternative livelihoods into future workshops hosted by the partnership.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia work with the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's prime implementer to clarify and document the partnership's public-private partnership objective and the roles and responsibilities of partners in achieving it.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia issue written guidance to the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's prime implementer on how to inform beneficiaries of USAID's sponsorship of the partnership.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia implement a plan for monitoring-and documenting the monitoring-the execution of the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's branding strategy and marking plan by the partnership's prime implementer.

USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia work with the Coral Triangle Support Partnership's prime implementer to use local languages for branding in activity sites to increase recognition within communities.

USAID/Afghanistan modify the cooperative agreement to reflect changes in the program to date.

USAID/Afghanistan assess and realign the program budget, as necessary.

USAID/Afghanistan remind its staff in writing of the importance of documenting significant meetings, discussions, and decisions that affect USAID programs.

USAID/Afghanistan's Office of Agriculture develop and implement a risk-based monitoring plan for the program that includes periodic site visits.

USAID/Afghanistan remind its staff in writing of (1) the importance of site visits, (2) the purpose of site visits, the areas that must be assessed and the tasks that must be completed during site visits, and (3) the documentation requirements for site visits.

USAID/Afghanistan identify and issue designation letters to onsite monitors for the program and formalize the mechanisms for coordination and communication among the agreement officer, the agreement officer's technical representative, and the onsite monitors.

USAID/Afghanistan provide its Office of Agriculture staff with training on how to analyze progress reports submitted by its implementing partners.

USAID/Afghanistan require its implementing partner to develop and implement a formal monitoring system that includes the development and execution of annual monitoring plans covering the programmatic and financial aspects of the program; reporting and analysis against those plans; the inclusion of subimplementers in those monitoring plans, reporting, and analysis; and the verification of reported results, including supporting documentation.

USAID/Afghanistan provide its implementing partners with training covering (1) the definitions of, the collection of, and the reporting on performance indicators for the program and (2) the requirement for and the maintenance of evidence, including documentation supporting reported results.

USAID/Afghanistan establish procedures to verify on a periodic basis the accuracy of the reporting of its implementing partners, including the verification of reported results with supporting documents at the lowest operational level.

USAID/Afghanistan assess whether it still requires biweekly reporting for this program.

USAID/Afghanistan require its implementing partner to (1) develop a detailed written strategy for building sustainability into its activities and projects, (2) develop indicators of sustainability for its activities and projects as well as for the program's overall objectives, (3) develop targets for its sustainability indicators, (4) include in its annual work plan both a narrative addressing sustainability during the work plan period and annual targets for its sustainability indicators, and (5) report in its quarterly and annual reports on its progress in the area of sustainability and against its sustainability indicators and targets.

USAID/Afghanistan require clear value chain implementation strategies for each sector covered by this program.

USAID/Afghanistan have a gender assessment performed for each component of the program and incorporate the results of those gender assessments in its program activities to increase the participation of women.

USAID/Afghanistan require that its implementing partners provide training to their program personnel on how to integrate gender issues into activities, the constraints women confront to participation in the economy, and ways to overcome those constraints.

USAID/Afghanistan require program implementing partners to develop and implement a written plan to strengthen ongoing partnership and cooperation with the Department of Women's Affairs and other stakeholders that are key to increasing the participation of women.

USAID/Afghanistan develop mission-wide policies and procedures governing cash-for-work and community-constructed infrastructure projects. These policies and procedures should include the employment of minors, safety of workers, and responding to injuries in compliance with Afghan labor law.