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USAID/Barbados work with the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance to implement a monitoring plan to confirm implementation of the subgranting process.

USAID/Barbados work with the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance to implement detailed guidelines, policies, and procedures on how to address potential victims of human trafficking.

USAID/Barbados work with the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance to implement a plan for training community animators on human trafficking issues.

USAID/Barbados assist the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance in implementing a revised sustainability plan for the Eastern Caribbean Community Action Plan II that includes specific strategies to confirm sustainable results.

USAID/Barbados work with the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance to implement a plan to verify reported data.

USAID/Barbados work with the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance to implement a plan to track and report all commodities received and provided to each country program office.

USAID/Barbados direct the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance to report as separate indicators the number of condoms distributed free and the number of those that were sold.

USAID/Barbados work with the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance to implement a commodities distribution plan that is consistent with the demands or needs of the countries to avoid significant surpluses at the project's end.

USAID/Barbados direct the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance to clearly define and document what constitutes a repeat client, and based on the definition, adjust targets accordingly.

USAID/Barbados require the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance to prepare and document yearly budgets by country, and track and report expenditures by country and compare it to the budgets.

USAID/Barbados work with the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance to correct the internal control deficiencies identified by properly storing the data backups and to resolve the problems related to the bank accounts in all country program offices to allow the receiving and transferring of funds to and from the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance's regional office and the country program offices, and document the results.

USAID/Barbados implement a plan to confirm that advances are processed in a timely manner and made for only one month at a time and that reimbursements are made only if unliquidated advance balances have been cleared.

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.